Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Employ key independent learning skills.
- Reflect critically upon your academic progress.
- Read, take notes and write in an appropriate and consistent academic style.
- Identify, assess and use appropriate sources.
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Reflect on your individual learning styles and employ methods to aid your own learning.
- Analyse your own work in light of marking criteria.
- Identify subject specific sources.
- Apply critical thinking and analytical strategies.
- Efficiently and effectively identify reliable sources appropriate for your discipline.
- Employ appropriate referencing conventions.
- Implement strategies for learning such as time-management, organisation, planning and motivation.
- Analyse, review and take action on feedback independently.
- Employ critical researching skills.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Make connections between the ways in which you approach your studies and the academic outcomes.
- Critique published work.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Why Academic Integrity (acting with honesty and responsibility in one's own Academic Work) is important.
- The assessment process from planning the piece of work to responding to feedback.
- What is expected of an undergraduate.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
---|---|
Seminar | 24 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 126 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Pears, R., and Shields, G (2010). Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Northedge, A. (2005). The Good Study Guide. Milton Keynes.: Open University.
Reinders, H., Moore, N., and Lewis, M. (2008). The International Student Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Cottrell, S. (2008). The Study Skills Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lowes, R., Peters, H., and Turner, M. (2004). The International Student’s Guide: Studying English at University. London: Sage.