Academic Skills for International Students

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply critical thinking and analytical strategies.
• Implement strategies for learning such as time-management, organisation, planning and motivation.
• Identify subject specific sources.
• Employ critical researching skills.
• Employ appropriate referencing conventions.
• Efficiently and effectively identify reliable sources appropriate for your discipline.
• Analyse your own work in light of marking criteria.
• Analyse, review and take action on feedback independently.
• Reflect on your individual learning styles and employ methods to aid your own learning.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critique published work.
• Make connections between the ways in which you approach your studies and the academic outcomes.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Why Academic Integrity (acting with honesty and responsibility in one's own Academic Work) is important.
• The assessment process from planning the piece of work to responding to feedback.
• What is expected of an undergraduate.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Employ key independent learning skills.
• Identify, assess and use appropriate sources.
• Reflect critically upon your academic progress.
• Read, take notes and write in an appropriate and consistent academic style.