Studying for Business

Raise your academic aspirations, engagement, and sense of achievement – this module will allow you to realise your full learning potential through the process of academic study itself, helping you develop recognisable transferable skills that will take you forward in your business career.

What does the module cover?

Develop skills for life and academic learning.  You’ll learn to carry out research, source appropriate reference material and adopt critical thinking to analyse, interpret and evaluate published data.  Become familiar with IT systems, electronic communication and basic computer packages relevant to a degree in business studies.  You’ll gain experience of group work and have time to reflect on your own learning and progress.

More Information

Module Code:

SM1007

Key topics

• Skills analysis and “Turn it in”
• Listening to lectures, taking notes
• Participating in seminars
• Structuring an essay and a report, Including Harvard referencing method
• An introduction to the analysis of written and numeric data
• Team working and learning communities
• Time management
• An introduction to Outlook, Word, Excel PowerPoint and UEL Plus.
• Reflection and learning from feedback.

Pre-requisites

None
Cannot combine with SM1001 FE1019

Number of credits & study time

20 credits / 200 hours

Assessment

The summative assessment for this module takes two elements, counting towards your final grade:

• Foundation Personal Development Plan  25%
• Portfolio     75%

The Portfolio should contain your completed Personal Development Plan with associated reflective work, in addition to records of formative assessments and an individual essay.