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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: 2021-22
    • See module specification for other years: 2022-23

Module summary

Personal effectiveness & Masterclass will consist of a range of skills development workshops aimed at improving personal and professional potential among students. Presentation skills, academic referencing, resilience and reflective skills, effective time management, negotiation and leadership skills, teamwork and conflict management, networking in business, are some of the core areas that will be covered in this module during the Autumn term. In the Spring term, students will have five weeks of intense Project Management workshops followed by sessions on personal marketing/branding and job interviewing skills.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2021-22 to Spring Term 2021-22

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 workshops as part of the Personal Effectiveness & Masterclass split during Autumn and Spring term. 9 sessions in Autumn and 9 in Spring. Each interactive session will address a specific skills building theme. Students will be completing a range of reflective exercises during Autumn and Spring term as part of this module.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Job Analysis Report		 N/A 40
Essay/coursework
Reflective Case Study Report		 N/A 5
Essay/coursework
Reflective Case Study Report		 N/A 25
Online Exam - 24 hrs (Centrally scheduled)
Project Management Masterclass		 N/A 30

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Job Analysis Report		 N/A 40
Essay/coursework
Reflective Case Study Report		 N/A 5
Essay/coursework
Reflective Case Study Report		 N/A 25
Online Exam - 24 hrs (Centrally scheduled)
Project Management Masterclass		 N/A 30

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

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