Academic Skills for International Students

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• The assessment process from planning the piece of work to responding to feedback.
• What is expected of an undergraduate.
• Why Academic Integrity (acting with honesty and responsibility in one's own Academic Work) is important.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Employ appropriate referencing conventions.
• Implement strategies for learning such as time-management, organisation, planning and motivation.
• Analyse your own work in light of marking criteria.
• Identify subject specific sources.
• Analyse, review and take action on feedback independently.
• Apply critical thinking and analytical strategies.
• Reflect on your individual learning styles and employ methods to aid your own learning.
• Efficiently and effectively identify reliable sources appropriate for your discipline.
• Employ critical researching skills.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Reflect critically upon your academic progress.
• Employ key independent learning skills.
• Identify, assess and use appropriate sources.
• Read, take notes and write in an appropriate and consistent academic style.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critique published work.
• Make connections between the ways in which you approach your studies and the academic outcomes.