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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a> Assessment<\/a><\/p>\n Attendance<\/a><\/p>\n Illness<\/a><\/p>\n Student Feedback<\/a><\/p>\n Employability Skills <\/a><\/p>\n Tutorial Activities <\/a><\/p>\n Semester 1: Developing Writing\/Presentational Skills<\/a><\/p>\n Writing and Referencing Skills<\/a><\/p>\n Semester 1: Timetable<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n Semester 2: Developing Programme-Specific Skills<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n Semester 2: Timetable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The Pass Scheme\u00a0<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n Appendix 1 : Employability <\/a><\/p>\n Appendix 2: Practical Guide to Writing Essays <\/a><\/p>\n Appendix 3: Preparing a Poster <\/a><\/p>\n Appendix 4: Oral Presentations<\/a><\/p>\n Appendix 5: Guidelines for Laboratory Report Writing <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your <\/span>Academic Tutor <\/b>in Year 1 will also act as your <\/span>Academic Advisor<\/b> throughout your time at Manchester.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your Academic Tutor will help you:<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your Academic Advisor:<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Every student in the School is assigned an Academic Advisor. \u00a0Your Academic Advisor (normally the same person throughout your course) offers you advice on academic matters, personal problems (if needed), and is your main link to the School and the University. <\/span><\/p>\n The University\u2019s aim is that by engaging with their Academic Advisor, students will: <\/span><\/p>\n In addition to you regular tutorials, you must meet your Academic Advisor at regular intervals (at least twice per semester where at least one meeting is face-to-face) throughout your degree. \u00a0Students are expected to attend and prepare for all arranged meetings with their Academic Advisor and respond promptly to any communication from their Academic Advisor. There are forms on \u201cMy intranet\u201d that you both fill in as a record of these meetings, which should prove useful to you both when it comes to references for placements or employment, changing programmes, choosing units, etc. Please prepare for these meetings by starting to fill in each form with any updates, issues, or concerns that you would like to discuss with your Academic Advisor. \u00a0You can \u201csave\u201d these notes as often as you like before the meeting with your Academic Advisor. Your Academic Advisor may add additional comments to the form and they will submit the final record at the end of the meeting. To locate the forms go to \u201cMy intranet\u201d then \u201cMy meetings\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n You should speak to your Academic Advisor about any problems that you are having that are affecting your work. \u00a0We encourage students to take the initiative in raising problems or difficulties (academic or personal) at the earliest possible opportunity so that staff can provide appropriate guidance and support. \u00a0The expectation is that students will then make appropriate use of all the support and guidance offered at the University. <\/span><\/p>\n When you are making applications for summer work, placements, jobs, or further degrees, your Academic Advisor should know you well enough to write an informed reference. There is a mechanism within the intranet meeting forms for you to provide your Academic Advisor with a CV, which you should update regularly, especially towards the end of your Degree Programme.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Semester 1<\/b><\/p>\n Tutorial Overview \u2013 Developing Communication Skills<\/b><\/p>\n The tutorial activities aim to:<\/span><\/p>\n Intended Learning Outcomes:<\/b><\/p>\n On successful completion of Semester 1 tutorial activities students should be able to:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Semester 2 <\/b><\/p>\n Tutorial Overview \u2013 Developing Programme-Specific Skills<\/b><\/p>\n The tutorial activities should:<\/span><\/p>\n Intended Learning Outcomes:<\/b><\/p>\n On successful completion of Semester 2 tutorial activities students should be able to:<\/span><\/p>\n Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a> Your tutorial assignments are listed in this handbook and \u00a0on the BIOL10000 Blackboard site. These will be marked by your Academic Tutor and returned to you with feedback. Your overall tutorial mark will be based on marked assignments given over the course of the academic year and therefore, if you deliberately or accidentally skip an assignment, your mark will be brought down. In order to pass the whole Tutorial Unit, three separate elements are required:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tutorials are an important part of the attendance requirements for your degree course and <\/span>compensation for partial failure of unit examinations is available only to students who have passed their tutorial unit. In addition, students who fail their tutorial unit due to poor marks or absences are required to complete an extended essay during the summer vacation.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a> Attendance at tutorials is compulsory <\/b>and will be monitored by your Academic Tutor. If more than one tutorial has been missed over the two semesters, without an acceptable reason (see below), then you will fail the Tutorial Unit. Some tutorials will be delivered to larger groups of students as plenary sessions. Details of which sessions you should attend are provided on the BIOL10000 Blackboard site. You should bring a device capable of accessing the internet to the plenary sessions to register your attendance. Some tutorials may be \u2018student-led\u2019. That is, students may meet in the absence of their Academic Tutor. You are expected to arrange venues and times with the other group members. Attendance should be taken at these meetings by a person chosen in advance and the attendance list passed on to your Academic Tutor. <\/span><\/p>\n Attendance at the plenary sessions and student-led meetings is also compulsory and will count towards your tutorial attendance.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a> If you are absent from a tutorial or unable to complete a tutorial assignment through illness, make sure you follow the guidelines on ill-health set out in the First Level Handbook.<\/span><\/p>\n Importantly, you must alert the Student Support Office and your Academic Tutor no later than the day and start time of your tutorial session AND submit a self-certification note or medical documentation promptly to the Student Support Office on your return to University\u00a0<\/em>(within one week of your absence). <\/strong><\/b>It is <\/span>your <\/i><\/b>responsibility to provide this information.<\/span><\/p>\n If you are unable to attend for any other good reason, you must supply documentary evidence to your AcademicTutor strongly supporting your reasons for absence. More than one unexcused absence will result in failure of the tutorial unit, exclusion from language and industrial placement programmes, and a summer resit essay assignment. Additional unexcused absences from tutorials may lead to the issuing of a formal warning letter. \u00a0Unexcused absences may have detrimental effects on decisions on progression to subsequent years of your degree programme, or even lead to exclusion from study in the Faculty.<\/span><\/p>\n For further information on this and other related matters, please read the relevant sections of the First Level Handbook.<\/span><\/p>\n\n Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n In order to help us maximise the benefits that you gain from tutorials, we need feedback from you, both on the tutorial activities and on your Academic Tutor\u2019s performance. For this purpose you will be asked to complete a unit survey at the end of each semester. It is important for us to have your opinion, as these surveys will be used to determine how tutorials are constructed and conducted in future years. Details of how to access\/complete the survey will be given to you each semester.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n You have your own online \u2018Employability Skills Record\u2019, which is located on the intranet within your personal profile. Your Academic Advisor can also view this. The aim of this record is to help you monitor and take an active part in the development of your employability skills (e.g. presentation skills, leadership skills). You should update your \u2018Employability Skills Record\u2019 on a regular basis, and at least once per semester. The Skills Record offers you links to useful suggestions to help you to develop your employability skills. You should discuss your \u2018Employability Skills Record\u2019 with your Academic Advisor during your 1:1 meetings. There is space on your record to set targets and you should review these regularly to chart your progress and think of strategies to develop your skills further.<\/span><\/p>\n\n What you write in your Employability Skills Record should prove extremely valuable when you apply for industrial\/professional placements, summer internships, further study or graduate jobs, as the topics covered reflect those you are likely to be asked about in many application processes.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Within the BIOL10000 Blackboard site you will find a resource entitled \u2018Developing your Employability Skills\u2019. This resource contains useful information about:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of your tutorial plenary sessions in semester 2 will be delivered by the Careers Service.<\/span><\/p>\n\n Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To some extent, the nature and content of the tutorials will depend on your degree<\/span><\/p>\n programme and the interests and preferences of your Academic Tutor, but you should expect to participate in most of the activities listed below. One of your first tasks will be to draw up a programme using the tables on the following pages. Fill in the dates\/times of the tutorials, make a note of which tutorials will be held with your Academic Tutor, which, if any, will be student- led, and write down the deadlines for your marked assignments. <\/span><\/p>\n In addition to the above, <\/span>you are required to attend plenary sessions on (i) Assessment Literacy: Understanding Assessments at University, (ii) How to Write an Essay, (iii) Frontiers in Science, (iv)Communicating to Different Audiences, (v) Experimental Reporting and (vi) Employability Skills<\/b>. Details of which sessions you should attend are provided on the BIOL10000 Blackboard site. <\/span>
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