This course is designed for senior undergraduate students who bring with them a wealth of experience and skills. You should anticipate some deep readings and lively discussions. This course is designed to ensure that you are learning to work as independently as possible while at the same time learning to recognise the value of group participation. Your independent work should ensure that you are a useful group member. Your classmates independent work should mean that you have a wealth of opinion at your disposal to test your ideas against. Make the most of this opportunity to practice the skills that will enhance your personal career. They are among the skills employers tell us that they are looking for in graduates. Do use the classroom situation to practice your communication and your social skills. Use your assignments to practice collecting and collating material, providing your views on the matter at hand, and presenting an item in a professional manner. To check if this course is for you and to be able to plan your semester, we have produced a detailed document setting out the course procedures.

This paper is taught in a four hour block lecture per week. These lectures are structured as a combination of information sharing (e.g., PowerPoint lecture) and student-based discussion. All discussions will be held in class. Students are required to prepare for class by reading the weekly articles and through small preparation tasks. The readings are linked through library ‘find reading lists’, and the preparation tasks will be assigned at the end of each lecture. In addition, between weeks two and four, students are required to attend a 45 minute career guidance session. This session is free, and is facilitated by a University careers guidance advisor. The guidance session is conducted on campus in the student centre. Course lecture notes are available each week from MyWeb. A word version of the course outline is also available on MyWeb. This word document is not linked to the library database or to MyWeb assignment submission functions. But, should you need to, you can review all the relevant information about lecture schedule, assessment criteria, and required readings on this document. All written assignments are to be submitted online through MyWeb, and these will be electronically marked and returned. To ensure you get feedback, submit the written assignments as a word document, and put your name in the header to ensure your grades can be recorded.

The workload for this course involves four hours of lecture per week, three hours for reading the required articles (found through the library ‘find reading list’), and approximately two hours preparation tasks for each lecture. These tasks will be discussed at the end of each lecture. The remainder of the time is for students to prepare the assignments.

This paper links with HRMG 242/342; 374/474; and 301/401.