Academic English skills
The Academic English Skills module aims to give you the right knowledge in language and related academic skills, enabling you to achieve your academic potential at University.
These include:
- Academic writing
- Effective and extensive reading strategies
- Effective participation in seminars
- Delivering presentations
- Listening to and recording information from lectures
You will also develop your vocabulary and accuracy in written and spoken English, giving you the ability to use language effectively and appropriately with clarity and confidence in an academic context.
Career Ahead
This module provides the opportunity for students to identify and develop skills for success, both in their studies and future career. The focus on employability skills reflects the fact that Pre-Masters students are closer to the job market than other students.
Students will learn to evaluate their own level of personal development, recognise and analyse the importance of behavioural competencies required for success in their own chosen field.
They will also reflect on the application of a range of effective interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills through independent learning and group work.
Statistics for Health and Medical Sciences
Understanding statistics is embedded across all research in Health and Medical Sciences so it is integral that the students can use their knowledge and apply it to design and carry out research.
Students will learn to critically apply a range of mathematical and statistical methods and tools, analyse a range of statistical approaches and select the most appropriate within the context of research.
During the module students will formulate solutions to health and medical sciences problems using mathematical and statistical techniques, as well as learning to translate real-world problems into mathematical and statistical models and effectively communicate solutions.
Research Skills for Masters (Health and Medical Sciences)
This module is an opportunity for students to demonstrate the ability to frame appropriate questions and apply learnt techniques of enquiry in their chosen specialism. To use health and medical science knowledge and skills to carry out an investigative project, justify a choice of research design and research methodology, produce an evaluative literature review, analyse scientific data as part of their project and critically evaluate key concepts.
Students will learn to summarise the findings of an project, using appropriate graphs and display charts, produce a scientific dissertation following standard referencing and present the results of the investigation to peers and other stakeholders.
Journal Club
This module provides an opportunity for experience of extended reading and writing to demonstrate an appropriate level of synthesis, through a literature review, speaking skills, presentation of journal articles or texts.
Students will learn to deploy acquired knowledge of principles of critical reading, apply relevant subject-specific academic conventions to academic writing, including use of data and diagrams and will be able to demonstrate competence in the process of self-critical drafting for postgraduate study, reflecting on and incorporating feedback.
Students will learn to apply independent learning techniques, critically evaluate sources and reflect on the process of leading a seminar and discussion, as well as develop critical literature review skills, utilising a variety of research sources.