Assessment Brief/s:

Assessment 1 – Group presentation; 20 minutes, 30% weighting

Assessment Brief 1 

Module Aims: 

The aim of this module is to provide and support students with the necessary skills base for engaging withFoundation Year modules, and to help students identify and develop a range of transferable skills in preparation for studying at degree level.The module aims to develop a reflective approach by helping students identify their own strengths and weaknesses, and plan for their personal, educational and career development.

Brief Module Description/Summary

This module content will cover the development of study skills specific to a Higher Education setting. This will include planning and writing assignments, preparing, and delivering oral presentations, collating, and presenting relevant information, reading, note taking and referencing from academic sources.It will then go on to introduce the purpose of research and consider a range of methods of data collection including surveys, focus groups, interviews, and secondary data collection. Then students will look at examples of data and how to utilise the relevant software to summarise and present the data. Analysis will also be considered: what can we usefully and accurately say based upon the data? 

Overview of Learning and Teaching Activities on the Module

Teaching will be primarily through small group seminars, workshops, VLE/e-learning resources, and regularone-to-one tutorials with personal tutors/supervisors. Our philosophy of learning and teaching, our understanding of teaching for Foundation years and CCCU policies and strategies have all influenced our specific approach to learning and teaching for the Foundationyear. Our teaching methods have been developed with explicit attention to debates pertaining to student learning styles.As such, our teaching methods provide a framework via which students develop the capacity to manage their own learning and evolve, over the course of their studies, into independent learners, acquiring the knowledge, understanding and skills that are essential to learning in Higher Education and to lifelong learning, post-graduation.

Module Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this module students should be able to:

Description/Guidance

Assessment Marking/Grading Criteria

Learning Materials/Resources:

Essential Resources:

• Cottrell, S. (2019), The Study Skills Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Gallagher, K. (2016), Essential study and employment skills for business and management students, 3^rd ed., Oxford: OUP.
  • Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2016), Cite them right: The Essential Referencing Guide. 10^th ed., Palgrave Macmillan.

Recommended Resources:

• Bassot, B. (2016), The Reflective Journal. 2^nd ed., London: Palgrave.
• Buzan, T. (2006), The Buzan study skills handbook. BBC publications.
• Cameron, S. (2009), The Business Student’s Handbook. Prentice Hall.
  • Cottrell, S. (2015), Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability. 2^nd ed., Palgrave.
  • Creme, P. Lea, M. (2008), Writing at University: A guide for students, 3^rd ed., Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.
  • Gröppel-Wegener, A. (2016), Writing Essays by Pictures: a workbook. Huddersfield: Innovative Libraries.
  • Hall, R. (2011), Brilliant presentation: what the best presenters know, do and say. Harlow: PrenticeHall.
  • Institute of Management (2005), Personal Effectiveness. Hodder & Stoughton.
  • Lowes R, Peters, H. and Turner, M. (2004) The international students’ guide, studying in

English at University, Sage.

• Marsen, S. (2005), Professional Writing, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Morris, C. (2012), Quantitative approaches to business studies, Prentice Hall.
  • Oakshott, L. (2012), Essential Quantitative Methods for Business, Management & Finance. PalgraveMacmillan.
  • Richards, D. (2002), Get it Across. Elliot Right Way.
  • Stanton, N. (2009), Mastering Communication. Palgrave.
  • Stuart-Hoyle, M. and Wiles, J. (2012), Orientation to Higher Education, 2^nd ed., Reader’

Pearson.

• Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2013), Cite them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide. 9^th ed., Palgrave Publishing.
• Trought, F. (2017), Brilliant Employability Skills: How to stand out from the crowd in the Graduate Job Market. Pearson.
• Winstanley, D. (2005), Personal effectiveness, CIPD.

Other

Relevant learning and support resources will be uploaded to the module Blackboard and provided on a student-specific basis by personal tutors. Students will be instructed and guided on usage of this materialthroughout the module. You are expected to keep abreast of current theories, issues and events that involve or affect business, or law, and studying at Higher Education. This may be via published academic journals, newspapers, trade magazines etc.:

• Harvard Business Review (Available through the e-library)
• Financial Times
• The Economist
• The Guardian Education
• The Cambridge Law Journal
• Business Law Review
• Business Law International

Websites

You are expected to keep abreast of news, both specific to business management and general news as wellas other information published in websites. Websites you need to use and be aware of are:

Chartered Management Institute www.managers.org.uk

Confederation of British Industry www.cbi.org.uk

Office of National Statistics https://www.ons.gov.uk/ Organisation for Economic Cooperation http://www.oecd.org/unitedkingdom/ and Development – OECD

Government Website portal www.direct.gov.uk

The Bar Council https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/

The Law Society https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/

Please note that the format and order of this reading list is for illustrative purposes only. Additional course material can also be found in Library services. Students are requested to submit a single alphabetical order bibliography list containing all sources used for each piece of work submitted. For guidelines on the required Harvard referencing style, please refer to: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/library/docs/harvard.pdf

Other Information

This handbook should be read in conjunction with other sources:

• Student Handbook: for programme academic information applying to all modules. The Programme Handbook(s) available on the student administration Blackboard(s) for your Programme(s). This not only provides general information about matters relating to your whole Programme of study but also provides help and guidance on support relating to personal problems that might be affecting your study as well as rules and procedures and links to academic support and careers and employment guidance and opportunities.

• Current Student Webpages: for generic student experience information

• Advice for Students Blackboard for Business School information