The Leeds Curriculum

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The Leeds Curriculum

What can you expect from a Leeds degree?

•Exposure to research from day one:

• teaching informed by research excellence

• acquisition of research skills

• practice in applying research skills and reflecting on the benefit

•Opportunity to design and direct independent research in final year

•Courses which reflect the importance of employability, global and cultural insight and ethics and responsibility in relation to the discipline [schools to provide egs from AHCs]

•A broad education which will challenge you to think about things in different ways and from different perspectives

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What does a broader education provide?

• A chance for you to explore the diversity of learning opportunities which a university the size of Leeds has to offer

• Space for you to extend your personal and professional skills in ways relevant to your future career: including languages/IT/communication/enterprise

• A stimulus to intellectual breadth, flexibility, confidence – competencies employers tell us they want

• A fresh perspective on your main subject, locating it in a wider academic and/or vocational context

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How will you be able to broaden?

• Through your main disciplinary studies – programmes include:

• modules which explore the relevance and application of your degree subjects in different contexts: academic and vocational

• modules that introduce you to alternative perspectives on the ideas and issues you are studying

• And – in most programmes – through your own choice of modules from the ten Discovery Themes

Discovery Themes

Creating sustainable futures

Enterprise and innovation

Ethics, religion and law

Exploring the sciences

Languages and cross-cultural understanding

Media, culture and creativity

Mind and body

Personal and professional development

Power and conflict

Technology and its impacts

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Discovery Themes:• Bring together modules from across the University to

illuminate important ideas and issues.

• Allow you to access inspirational modules taught by world-class experts.

• Offer you real breadth of choice and the opportunity to pursue your own personal interests.

• Are organised in a structured way to help you find the particular Discovery Modules that are right for you.

• Allow you to pursue an interest in depth over two or more levels, or provide a taste of a new subject at a single level.

• Provide flexibility to allow personalised progression paths.

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What will mark you out as a Leeds Graduate?

• You will develop transferable academic skills/capabilities:• Question setting/problem solving

• Engaging with ideas

• Acquiring/analysing information

• Challenging received wisdom

• Understanding/reinforcing the creation of knowledge

•You will understand the connections between academic study and the wider world

•You will build the foundations for life/career after university