Personal presentation documents (40%) asseses LO1
Business Maths Assignment (40%) assesses LO2
Development plan (20%) assesses LO3

To continue to develop study and transferable skills necessary for the satisfactory completion of a higher education business course and subsequent employment and career development.

The module will focus on communication, numeracy and IT Skills. Personal Development Planning will be ongoing in this module.

Topics covered in the module will be underpinned by a focus on employability and impression management and will be supported by the development of important business and personal documents such as written communication skills (e.g. Business letters, letters of application, CV writing); oral communications (personal presentations).

The module will also develop quantitative techniques for business and may include: equations and percentages in a business context; averages (mean, mode, median); probability; measures of dispersion; normal distribution; graphical representation of business information, correlation and regression and/or hypothesis testing and sampling."

IT Network
Library Resources
TV/Video

Cottrell, S (2008) The Study Skills Handbook, Palgrave, ISBN 0333751892
Peck, J and Coyle, M, (1999) The Student;s Guide to Writing, Palgrave, ISBN 0333727428

FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS ONLY.

The learning strategy for this module is based around students committing a total of 150 hours of activities towards achieving the learning outcomes. These will be split between 39 hours of direct contact with a tutor and 111 hours of directed, guided and self-study, together with preparation for and completion of the assessment tasks. Learning support material will be provided for the module.
The module will draw upon a mixture of activities including lectures, web-based activities, case study analysis, relevant videos and in-class discussions, individual and group problem solving and self-directed learning.