Professional and Academic Skills 1

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how to use a range of academic approaches and techniques applicable to advanced scholarship in your subject;
• professional skills relevant to employment in the creative economy.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• reflect on your performance, critically reviewing your own strengths and weaknesses;
• apply critical judgement in selecting and analysing academic sources.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• communicate effectively with peers and wider audiences in a variety of media.

Academic Study Skills

• critical analysis of literature
• Academic integrity
• Using primary and secondary sources
• selecting library resources

Professional Skills

• Industry-specific self-presentation & employability skills
• Time management and project planning

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• lectures
• academic study skills sessions
• tutor-led seminars
• tutorials
• case study analysis
• visiting lecturers

Learning activities include

• independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback
• group projects and formative collaborative tasks
• problem-solving activities
• study visits
• independent research
• using online reference material and tutorial notes
• peer-group learning
• class discussions

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Blackboard.

Textbooks

Bilton, C. and Cummings, S. (2015). Handbook of Management and Creativity. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Cottrell, S. (2013). The Study Skills Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Cottrell, S. (2015). Skills For Success: Personal Development And Employability. London: Macmillan Education : Palgrave.

Easterby-Smith, M., Thorpe, R. and Jackson P. R. (2015). Management & Business Research. London: SAGE.

Gray, C, & Malins, J. (2004). Visualizing Research: A Guide To The Research Process In Art And Design. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External