General Physics Skills
The table below shows the opportunities for putting different skills into practice. Major possibilities are shown in normal type. Minor possibilities are shown in italics like this. Possible opportunities (which may depend on the particular course or project you do) are shown with a (?) after them.
Skills Table
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Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
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Oral Communication |
Seminar in tutorial Lab talk (Forces experiment) |
Skills module oral presentation Yr2 project presentation Project bench inspection |
Lab seminars Group Study seminar
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Yr4 project seminars & viva
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Written Communication |
Poster in Skills module + Essay Lab reports + Lab book |
Skills module + Essay Yr2 project report Yr2 lab book |
Group Study report Lab reports Critique? |
Critique? Yr4 project report
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Organisation & Planning |
Skills module Lab project Exam revision |
Yr2 project Exam revision |
Group Study General time management Labs? Career research? |
Yr4 project proposal General time management Career research Lecture courses? |
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Gathering Information |
Skills: careers project Essay Lab project |
Essay Yr2 project |
Group Study Labs? Career research? Lecture courses? |
Critique? Yr4 project Career research Lecture courses? |
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Teamwork |
Skills module - Poster Labs (mostly pairs) |
Skills module Labs; Yr2 project |
Group Study Labs |
Yr4 project? Lecture courses? |
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Critical Thinking |
Labs Essay Skills module |
Yr2 project Essay Labs |
Group Study Labs? Critique? |
Critique? Yr4 project Lecture courses? |
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Self & Peer Evaluation |
Skills: practice class test Essay; Lab reports Appraisal |
Skills: oral presentation Appraisal |
Group Study ? Career research? Appraisal |
Project talks? Career research Appraisal |
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Personal/Interpersonal |
Tutorials Skills module Labs |
Tutorials Skills module Labs |
Group study Labs |
Yr4 projects Lecture courses? |
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Computing & IT |
Specialism & Computing module Yr1 lab (spreadsheets etc) Essay, careers project etc (word proc) |
Skills & Computing module Labs; Essay |
Options in C++ & Comp.Phys. Group Study? Labs? |
Yr4 project? |
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Problem Solving |
Skills module Assessed course problems |
Skills & Computing + G.P. exam Assessed course problems Yr2 projects |
G.P. tutorials & exam Group Study Course problems |
Yr4 project? Course problems |
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Business & Enterprise |
Skills: careers project |
Birmingham Careers Skills Series workshops? |
Entrepreneurship & Innovation module? Birmingham Careers Skills series workshops? |
Mathematical Finance module? Birmingham Careers Skills series workshops? B-SEEN skills programme? |