Overview

The module will be based around weekly sessions where students are introduced to generic academic skills and fortnightly tutorials where these skills will be applied in the context of Economics and Banking. The generic skills will include but not be limited to: note taking in lectures and seminars; IT skills (including internet, e-mail and Blackboard); the sourcing of information (including library, databases and search engines); the use and interpretation of evidence (including quotation, citation and plagiarism); essay perparation and writing (including the development of academic argument); oral presentation; and group work. The fortnightly subject-specific tutorials will focus on applying these skills to a particular theme that bridges economics and banking. Students will be given a choice regarding the theme that the group will follow. The choices available will include financial crises, inequality, globalisation and policy.

Learning Outcomes

• Communicate ideas clearly and confidently.

• Develop confidence and competence in a range of learning processes

• Develop the ability to find materials relevant to particular issues and to appraise their provenance and limitations

• Summarise, precis and abstract longer academic papers or journal articles in the fields of Economics and Banking.

• Write well-structured essays, with a logical line of argument, drawing upon appropriate evidence from robust sources