Academic Development for Social Sciences 1 (L0001F)

15 credits, Level 3 (sub-degree)

Autumn teaching

On this module, you’ll focus on developing key undergraduate academic skills through an independent research project. You’ll learn to:

• find, analyse and evaluate source material
• use evidence to form and support arguments in essays and presentations.

Your learning will be supported by the Canvas site, which offers additional resources on research skills. Engaging with these materials and attending seminars will help you build approaches expected at undergraduate level.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 16 hours of contact time and about 134 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.