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Academic Skills Plus will teach you the academic skills you need to succeed in your university studies. These include how to get more out of your readings in less time, the assignment producing process, constructing introductions, paragraphs and conclusions, integrating sources, critical thinking, academic expression and presenting. You'll have the opportunity to practice these skills both in class and in your assignments. Your assignments will relate to the course's theme: 'AI and our world'. Each week there will be a one-hour lecture on different aspects of the theme and a two hour academic skills seminar.

An introduction to the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students need for success at university that involves thinking about the whole person.

This course develops students’ capacity to write academic essays according to the conventions of the Humanities. It provides the knowledge and vocabulary by which students can critically analyse the work of others as well as their own. The course focuses sustained attention on various modes of academic writing that are used in essay writing and shows how these may be deployed to present a strong argument. The course includes analysis of a range of exemplars as well as essays from academic journals researched by students and related to their disciplinary interests. This study will be accompanied by writing exercises, writing workshops and detailed feedback from both peers and staff.

This course is ideal for anyone looking to improve their writing skills in English and is the perfect preparation for written component of IELTS, Cambridge English and TOEFL exams, as well as for those who are just looking to practice and improve their general written English. Each lesson will focus on a different form of written English – E-Mails and Correspondence, Essay-Writing, Reports, and Blogging and Social Media, CVs and Resumes, discussing the structure, form, tone and conventions surrounding each different form. The lessons will be accompanied by grammar and vocabulary to help you construct your text, enrich your language, build forceful arguments and convincing conclusions, and will give students the chance to practice writing and receive feedback from a native-speaker and experienced teacher of English.

Completion of an independent geoscience research project

Acceleration for Student Entrepreneurs" is a dynamic, capstone-style course that immerses students in the real-world process of taking a business idea from conception to market readiness using a practical, hands-on approach, focusing on the development and refinement of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and gaining traction in the marketplace.