BU50PB: Professional and Academic Skills for Business (Block)

BU50PB: PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SKILLS FOR BUSINESS (BLOCK) (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19

Course Overview

This course is designed to support your academic and professional learning journey as you progress with your IBM Programme.

Topics will include enhanced orientation, study skills, health and well-being and employability activities.

Successful completion of this course will be recorded on your Enhanced Transcript as ‘Achieved’.

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Term	Full Year	Credit Points	0 credits (0 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Mrs Lindsay Tibbetts

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
MSc International Business Management

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

This course is designed to enhance and enrich your student learning journey. We recognise that the transition to a Masters level of study can be challenging. This course is designed to:

support your transition and equip you with the academic skills required to successfully complete your Masters.
Enhance your work related skills to support your transition into work or further studies.

The course runs alongside your academic studies.

Course Content:

Enhanced Orientation and induction
Academic skills such as academic writing/critical thinking/Group work/Ethics
Professional skills such as Ethics/Applications/Employer networking

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 21st September 2026 for Term 1 and Full Year courses and 8th January 2027 for Term 2 courses.

Summative Assessments

There are no assessments for this course.

Formative Assessment

None

Assessment Type	Formative	Weighting	100
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	This course is designed to support assessment within the degree programme, health and well-being, and employability. As such, assessment will be indirect via the Programme courses.

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Factual	Understand	Understand the academic expectations of the 51cg
Conceptual	Analyse	Able to identify written academic conventions
Procedural	Apply	Able to demonstrate critical thinking skills
Procedural	Apply	Able to write cohesively and to employ strategies to integrate referenced supporting evidence
Procedural	Apply	Ability to communciate interactively
Factual	Understand	Have knowledge of the key professional skills such as Ethics/Applications/Employer networking
Factual	Understand	Have knowledge and understanding approaches to the support available from the University to support health and well-being

51cg