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The learning strategies will require students to commit 150 learning hours, of which 36 hours will consist of contact time. A combination of lectures and tutorials/workshops will provide students with the opportunity to develop a range of business skills.

A further 114 hours of independent study will require students to further develop and practise these skills using a combination of formative and summative assessment exercises independently and as part of a small group.

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."

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