Handbook

Academic Study Skills 2 is a skills-based subject designed to help students acquire the essential academic skills required at university. The subject introduces students to analytical and critical thinking, supervised and independent academic research and appropriate written and spoken presentation of research results. GED020 aims to ensure students¿ academic success in their first year at university by helping them become independent learners. A key element in achieving such success is willingness on the part of students to take responsibility for their own learning and to strive consistently to improve their own work. Students are expected to reflect on their study methods and apply skills and strategies learnt here to all their subjects. In GED020 students will develop and refine those essential academic skills and strategies introduced in Academic Study Skills 1. There is a greater emphasis on group work.