This module is designed to build on your academic learning, together with life and employability skills, ensuring you reach your full potential through a clear understanding of higher education expectations. Alongside developing your skills in communication and academic writing you will explore your best strategies for learning, develop skills in team building, cooperation and resilience and know how these will support your further studies and employability. This module works in partnership with ARU Personal and professional Development (PPD) Pulse, to support your personal and professional development throughout your four years The module comprises of 16 Student Standards that will evidence your preparation for undergraduate study. During your two trimesters of study, you will submit evidence to the sixteen student standards. This allows you to demonstrate your learning journey throughout the module with a focus on learning to learn, resubmissions and improvements support your portfolio and demonstrate your cheerful outlook and resilience to learning. It will ensure you have a confident understanding of the institutional culture, practices, norms and expectations of British higher education together with personal skills in resilience, teamwork and an understanding of the responsibilities of belonging to a higher educational establishment. The module aims to ensure you develop: Academic Communication; Effective resilient learning skills; Career and Life-building skills. Learning to Learn is benchmarked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning. Standards 1-7 have clear referencing to the benchmarking within the standard. Your portfolio of evidence will demonstrate competence in each of the four skills of academic reading, writing, speaking, and listening and are included to confirm that you meet the appropriate exit threshold in English language proficiency.
View the full module definitionIntroduction to Business provides you with the fundamentals on core theories, concepts and principals of marketing, economics, accounting, and management. This module will help you to develop an understanding of how businesses operate in various aspects. You will be introduced to the role of marketing, PEST and SWOT analysis, demand and supply, and profit maximisation, among other things. Within a lecture environment, you will learn about the key techniques and theoretical underpinnings of these aspects. You will also study and discuss practical examples and case studies to write a business proposal.
View the full module definitionCore Maths has been designed to ensure you will have the necessary basic numeracy skills needed for university. Within this module, you will practice various mathematical manipulations and apply these concepts to real-life situations, to indicate the importance and applicability of mathematics to your future degrees. You will study a wide range of core mathematics including arithmetic skills, algebra, solving equations, probability, and basic statistics, all of which will be extremely beneficial for supporting you in your studies.
View the full module definitionThis module aims to enable you to participate in and practice independent learning tasks for deeper thought and investigation as needed for higher academic pursuits. You will participate in a Socratic discussion based around conspiracy theories and source checking to encourage presentation and debating skills. You will be encouraged to invest in strategies that will deepen understanding and interpretation of processes, motives, argument, rationale, credibility, and possibilities which will then be applicable to a range of studies. You will also undertake research, based on an issue related to your degree programme, to review the main points of examining an argument in depth. You will then learn to create a personal response that analyses the content of the issue under study.
View the full module definitionIntercultural Studies explores differences between cultures and subcultures around the world. Within this module, you will draw from your own cultural experiences as well as learning from other people and lecturer-led case studies. The aim of this module is to increase your awareness and help you to further develop an understanding toward other cultures and value systems. You will gain the skills required to explore and articulate comparisons between different cultural practices, institutions, beliefs, and analytical frameworks.
View the full module definitionEthics is all about making decisions based on what you consider to be correct and not correct which is a discipline that is fundamental for students in higher education. Within this module, you will discuss the complexity of ethical theory and will investigate the status of several major ethical theories and claims and consider some practical ethical issues which are impacted by these theories. You will be encouraged to use critical thinking and research to discuss descriptive, normative, and analytic approaches to ethical problems and you will also look at how ethics is applied within the humanities, technology, business, medical and legal contexts.
View the full module definitionThis module has been designed to present you with some of the fundamental aspects of business law. You will be introduced to legal concepts and rules and the machinery involved in their introduction, application, and enforcement. You will explore and critically assess the value of legal rules, processes, and institutions and will cover topics such as: intellectual property, business structures, business transitions, business liability, and employment law. You will also develop skills in communication, interpretation, reasoning, and analysis which are crucial in business law.
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