BUS1005 : Personal, Professional and Key Skills Development

  • Offered for Year: 2011
  • Module Leader(s): Mrs Shelagh Cauwood
  • Owning School: Newcastle University Business School
Semesters
Semester 1 Credit Value: 10
Semester 2 Credit Value: 10

Aims

This module aims to enable students to develop a constructive approach to the identification and development of personal, professional and key skills to improve and enhance their personal effectiveness as learners and throughout their careers.

Original Summary:
This module aims to enable students to develop a constructive approach to the identification and development of personal, professional and key skills to improve and enhance their personal effectiveness as learners and throughout their careers.

Outline Of Syllabus

Skills Audit/Learning Styles. Employability Skills. Essay and Report Writing. Time Management. Teamwork. Presentation Skills. Project Management. Working with Numbers. Revision and Exam Techniques. Improving Own Learning and Performance. Computer Literacy: Using the Web/Concepts, - MS Word, - Excel, - Power Point, - Access.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Academic Staff Contact Hours Comment
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion1111:00111:000:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture201:0020:0020:00Relevant theory will be introduced during the lectures and a range of skills will be practiced and d
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion150:0050:000:0050 hs: Prep of: individual Development Plan, maintenance of a Development Diary/ Reflective Report
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching191:0019:0019:00N/A
Total200:0039:00
Jointly Taught With
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Relevant theory will be introduced during the lectures and a range of skills will be practiced and developed through individual and group activities. Further depth of skill development will be achieved through the private study of appropriate learning materials and individual practice of relevant skills. Participants will develop their own individual plan of learning for this module giving priority to the skills required for their own personal and professional development.

Assessment Methods

Exam Pairings
Module Code Module Title Semester Comment
BUS1005Personal, Professional and Key Skills Development0N/A
Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Other2M100
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The assessment activity described above will encourage students to identify their own development needs, design and implement an Individual Development Plan, record and review their development activities and then evaluate and reflect systematically on the skills development derived from this process. This assessment activity is deemed to be the most appropriate to encourage students to develop and provide evidence of their personal, professional and key skills which will enable them to become more personally effective as learners and also, more generally, throughout their careers. The assessment activity is, therefore, explicitly related to the intended learning outcomes.


Resit Format: Resubmission of portfolio.

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