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Personal Effectiveness & Masterclasses - ELE00111M

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  • Department: Electronic Engineering
  • Module co-ordinator: Dr. Bidyut Baruah
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2020-21

Module summary

Personal effectiveness will consist of staff, research students and guest speakers sharing accessible themes with the aim to improve personal development and professional potential among students. Presentation skills, advanced use of Word/Excel, research strategies, interviewing skills, self-marketing for boosting employability, poster design and production, body language, negotiation and leadership skills, reflective practice, teamwork, conflict management and ethics are some of the core areas that will be covered.

Masterclasses consist of staff, research students and guests sharing accessible but forward-looking cross-disciplinary themes in their areas; one of which you will follow up and develop your own detailed study.

Students will also engage with an e-learning log making weekly entries throughout Autumn and Spring term. The objective of using this log is to help students explore their own thinking and learning, evaluate their progress towards defined goals and career aspirations and engage critically with the programme content and application of the taught theories, concepts and models to the real world.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching cycle
A Autumn Term 2020-21 to Spring Term 2020-21
B Spring Term 2020-21 to Summer Term 2020-21

Module aims

Subject content aims:

  • To expose students to a wide range of generic management and technical skills that will be useful in everyday working situations.
  • To encourage discussion and practice in the use of these skills throughout the MSc course.
  • To improve transferable skills development in students and prepare them for industry roles
  • To allow students to experience several cross-disciplinary subject areas related to engineering and technology management
  • To develop the student’s skills in writing up a research study in one of the subject areas

 

Graduate skills aims:

  • Technical knowledge and application to specific tasks
  • Communication skills: written and oral
  • Team working knowledge and practice in managing conflict
  • Listening and negotiation skills
  • Leadership and reflective practice skills
  • Ability to analyse and synthesise information
  • Decision making and personal effectiveness
  • Ability to lead and manage projects
  • Time management
  • Ability to reflect critically
  • Awareness of cross-disciplinary subject relationships
  • Ability to follow up a research topic and summarise findings in a research report

Module learning outcomes

Subject content learning outcomes

After successful completion of this module, students will:

  • be able to utilise IT skills more effectively
  • understand the key elements of leadership, team working and communication
  • apply management knowledge to organisational issues
  • have a greater understanding of research strategies and apply them appropriately
  • have an enhanced awareness of interdisciplinary knowledge
  • be able to generate research ideas and find out new information
  • be able to analyse information and present a summary of their analysis
  • be able to apply new knowledge to their own development through reflection

 

Graduate skills learning outcomes

After successful completion of this module, students will:

  • have improved capacity for research, analysis and synthesis through the effective use of IT tools
  • understand issues of communication in a number of media and be able to use a range of media more effectively
  • be able to apply knowledge and/or skills in practice
  • manage information and time more effectively
  • be clear about decision making criteria

Module content

There will be 18 lectures as part of the Personal Effectiveness split during Autumn and Spring term. 9 sessions in Autumn and 9 in Spring. Each interactive session will address a specific skills building theme. As part of the e-learning log during Autumn and Spring term, students will be required to complete reflective exercises based on the Personal Effectiveness workshops on a weekly basis in the log.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Core academic skills		 N/A 25
Essay/coursework
E-learning logs		 N/A 30
Essay/coursework
Project Management Masterclass		 N/A 25
Essay/coursework
Self marketing video		 N/A 20

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Core academic skills		 N/A 25
Essay/coursework
E-learning logs		 N/A 30
Essay/coursework
Project Management Masterclass		 N/A 25
Essay/coursework
Self marketing video		 N/A 20

Module feedback

'Feedback’ at a university level can be understood as any part of the learning process which is designed to guide your progress through your degree programme.  We aim to help you reflect on your own learning and help you feel more clear about your progress through clarifying what is expected of you in both formative and summative assessments.

A comprehensive guide to feedback and to forms of feedback is available in the Guide to Assessment Standards, Marking and Feedback.  This can be found at https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/assessment-and-examination/guide-to-assessment/

The Department of Electronic Engineering aims to provide some form of feedback on all formative and summative assessments that are carried out during the degree programme.  In general, feedback on any written work/assignments undertaken will be sufficient so as to indicate the nature of the changes needed in order to improve the work.  Students are provided with their examination results within 20 working days of the end of any given examination period.  The Department will also endeavour to return all coursework feedback within 20 working days of the submission deadline.  The Department would normally expect to adhere to the times given, however, it is possible that exceptional circumstances may delay feedback.  The Department will endeavour to keep such delays to a minimum.  Please note that any marks released are subject to ratification by the Board of Examiners and Senate.  Meetings at the start/end of each term provide you with an opportunity to discuss and reflect with your supervisor on your overall performance to date. 

Indicative reading

N/A


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