This module aims to provide a solid base of academic and professional skills required for success at university and in the graduate career market.

(LO1) Students will be able to demonstrate skills in sourcing and referencing data

(LO2) Students will be able to apply appropriate approaches to analysing the data, interpreting findings and developing an argument

(LO3) Students will be able to produce written communications for an academic and a corporate audience

(LO4) Students will be able to describe their personal academic goals and how these fit with a professional future

(LO5) Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to work in teams and manage manage time effectively in a stressful environment

(S1) An excellent verbal and written communicator

(S2) A team player

(S3) Organised and able to work under pressure

(S4) A problem solver

(S5) Ethical awareness

(S6) Commercial awareness

(S7) International awareness

(S8) Digitally confident

Teaching Method: Seminar
Description: Equiry-based learning style seminars with students having to carry out a task relating to their lecture. This will typically be a group activity and involve pair programming.
Scheduled Directed Student Hours: 12
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Method: Lecture
Scheduled Student Hours: 12
Attendance recorded: Yes

Self-Directed Learning Hours: 114
Self-Directed Learning Description: This will consist of preparation for seminars (reading journal articles, carrying out basic analytic tasks for discussion) and work on assignments.

Skills/Other Attributes Mapping

Skills / attributes: An Excellent Verbal and Written Communicator
How this is developed: The focus of the module will be on developing students’ university and business writing skills; this will be a focus of lecture and seminar activities as well as a key element of the portfolio assessment. Students will engage with fo rmative writing tasks in seminars. External lectures from library staff will also be employed.
Mode of assessment (if applicable): Portfolio Exercises & Presentation

Skills / attributes: A Team Player
How this is developed: Lecture and seminar activities are predominantly team based requiring students to work together to solve problems and / or present ideas.
Mode of assessment (if applicable): Presentation

Skills / attributes: Organised and able to work under pressure
How this is developed: Timed activities will be used throughout lectures and seminars to promote students to work individually or in pairs under a time constraint. The portfolio assessment will require students to organise their work, and that of their teams in a formal manner for submission.
Mode of assessment (if applicable): Portfolio Exercises & Presentation

Skills / attributes: A Problem Solver
How this is developed: Students will be asked in lectures, seminars and in their portfolio submission to address contemporary business issues and reflect on or present solutions to these issues.
Mode of assessment (if applicable): Portfolio Exercises & Presentation

Skills / attributes: Ethical Awareness
How this is developed: The content of the module will emphasise the need for ethical decision making on the part of new professionals. Class discussions will have an ethical element and students will be encouraged to develop a perspective upon key global challenges from an ethical standpoint.
Mode of assessment (if applicable: Portfolio Exercises & Presentation

Skills / attributes: International Awareness
How this is developed: An international perspective and examples will be provided throughout this module. Students will be introduced to a broad spectrum of examples, cases and discussions highlighting the truly international nature of modern businesses.
Mode of assessment (if applicable): Portfolio Exercis es & Presentation

Skills / attributes: Commercial Awareness
How this is developed: The module will discuss the nature of skills and how they are deployed in various business contexts and environments. This will develop the student’s commercial awareness as they will learn about the application of these skills in commercial contexts.
Mode of assessment (if applicable): Portfolio Exercises & Presentation

Skills / attributes: Digitally Confident
How this is developed: The module will require students to engage with various software applications commonly used in businesses (with a particular focus on Excel) and develop student knowledge of the application and use of software for their studies and in their professional careers.
Mode of assessment (if applicable): Portfolio Exercises & Presentation

Content will include areas such as:
• Transition to Higher Education (reflection on skills, development of independent learning, expectations of HE)
• Developing academic scholarship (reading, taking notes, searching databases, reading academic articles, essay writing, referencing and an introduction to criticality)
• Teamwork presenting professionally
• Professional behaviour (business communications and etiquette);).
• Report writing (communicating ideas concisely for different audiences, using evidence, writing an Executive Summary);).
• Using Excel or other technical software, working with quantitative & qualitative data
• Reflective practice
• Networking, and graduate insights – programme-specific