Welcome to MBS Dr. Ilias Petrounias Director of Undergraduate Studies Room 3. 19, MBS West ilias. petrounias@mbs. ac. uk
Overview • • • Welcome Role of Director of UG Studies Studying at MBS • • Overall learning outcomes Your expectations from us Our expectations from you Feedback Academic Malpractice Contacts and roles - Sources of Support Prizes/Competitions
Director of UG Studies • Overall responsibility for the running of UG Programmes • • Academic content Currency of UG Programmes Regulations/Boards of Examiners Student issues/feedback/satisfaction
UG Programmes Learning Outcomes • Individual set of learning outcomes per Programme • However, the following applies to all of them • • understand your core discipline understand subject specific theories, ideas, issues and practices relating to your core discipline understand your core discipline as a dynamic field and be able to place theories/practices in a social context understand current and future developments in the area of your core discipline
UG Programmes Learning Outcomes (cont. ) • Apply higher-level cognitive skills, including analysis, synthesis and evaluation • Address arguments/ideas through multiple perspectives • Develop critical thinking within your core discipline • Develop/enhance transferable skills
Your Expectations from Us • Be professional • Support you, both academically and personally, to help you complete your studies • Give you feedback • Keep you informed • Listen and respond
Our Expectations from You • Commit to a professional way of working • Attend and participate • Make a positive commitment to developing as an independent learner • Keep us informed • Understand follow good academic practice
Feedback • Feedback from us to you: this can take many forms including essays, presentations, online quizzes, etc • • Formal & informal feedback University policy • Feedback from you to us: via questionnaires, focus groups and surveys • • Programme Committees UG Committee
Academic Malpractice • Academic malpractice includes • plagiarism, collusion, fabrication or falsification of results • Make sure that work is your own • • • Anything else should be referenced properly Don’t be tempted to copy work (plagiarism), buy essays from the internet or cheat in exams – the penalties are severe, even for a first offence… Last year two students found cheating in first year exams had to resit all their exams and had zero marks on their transcripts https: //ughandbook. portals. mbs. ac. uk/Myassessment/Plagiarism. aspx
People & Roles Sources of Support • Director of UG Studies • Programme Director • Academic Advisor • • Course co-ordinator • • Seminar Leader meeting every 2 weeks, advice on academic matters first point of contact for questions/issues for a course • support course co-ordinators doing seminars & tutorials. Often are GTAs or Ph. D students • Assessment & Student Support Office Make Use of Academic Staff Contact Hours
Prizes & Competitions • Year Prize • Programme Prize • School Prize • Case competitions • • • Marshall International Case Competition in Los Angeles Sauder School of Business at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver Programme specific (i. e. ITMB e-skills)
• Wish you 3(or 4) enjoyable and productive years!!!
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