Creativity, Confidence and Public Speaking
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-18 | - |
| 2023-05-02 | - |
| 2023-09-26 | 2023-07-17 |
| 2024-01-16 | - |
Program Overview
Course overview
Our warm and inspiring tutor, Victoria Hogg, has a ‘Yes, and’ approach to confidence building; this being the belief that ‘Yes, and’ can only encourage positivity, enquiry and an openness to change.
“I loved the course and got so much out of it. I was starting a new job and it really helped. I got less stressed and did the job really well. Thanks so much.”
Sarah, Administrator/Creative Writer
“Vic creates a completely safe environment to gradually experiment and have fun improving without the fear of ‘getting it wrong’.”
Richard, Luxury Goods Brand Ambassador
This entry-level 6-week, live online short course, offered by the Short Course Team at Goldsmiths, will give you the tools to become more confident, in work, and life in general. It will help you feel more confident in group settings and improve how you feel internally when facing new situations.
Drawing on a range of social science theories and using improvisation techniques, this course aims to unlock your best potential. Creating a safe space through play, you'll be encouraged to take risks.
We invite those from a wide range of backgrounds, including those whose first language is not English. No matter your age, job, or experience level, we all want to learn how to manage our nerves when in unfamiliar situations, and how to be creative and relaxed when put on the spot.
Course structure
Session 1, reset and refresh.
Reminding ourselves who and how we are in a safe, playful space.Session 2, confidence and connection.
Exploring group dynamics via key social-science research.Session 3, story and personal brand.
Sharing tips and techniques for successful presentations.Sessions 4 and 5, presentations and Feedback.
Practising public speaking in a playful, relaxed way.Session 6, consolidation.
Reinforcement of learning outcomes, fun exercises, games and presentations.Learning outcomes
This course aims to help you:
You’ll receive a digital certificate of completion if you attend 80% of the course.
Program Outline
Course content
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Compulsory classes
Introduction to Finance
This module aims to provide students with an introduction to finance. The concepts and theories covered will be at introductory level and will allow students to develop a basic understanding of how finance functions operate and businesses analyse the environment in which they are operating.
Academic Skills
This class aims to support you in developing key skills that are important to both your academic and future career. These include skills associated with:
Leadership Development Programme 1
On the LDP you will cover areas such as leadership, negotiation, entrepreneurship, ethics and strategic management, as well as honing your practical skills in areas of IT, numeracy and research methodology.
Optional modules
Plus one of the following from the classes offered by Business Analysis & Technology, and Economics:
Managing Business Processes & Information Systems
This class forms a bridge between the first year class and more advanced classes in Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Process Outsourcing, the role of ICT in business environment, etc.
The class will seek to combine conceptual and technical skills, and it will provide the basis for a series of classes in third and Honours years, especially in areas of Business Process Integration with ERP, organisational innovation and E-commerce.
Analysing & Improving Operations
This class is one of the two undergraduate Business Analysis & Technology classes before the Honours year that apply various approaches to operations management problems. Following on from the fundamentals in the first year class, this class introduces you to the subject of operations management in detail and provides opportunity for you to apply some of the basic decision analysis techniques, including simulation, in this context.
Intermediate Microeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics & Data Analytics
Elective subjects
Choose two or three level 2 subjects* from the list below:
Plus either/or the two subjects below, depending on the optional choice of classes:
*for a name specialist pathway choose two subjects and an additional class in the specialist subject, or for the generalist degree choose three subjects.
Compulsory classes
Leadership Development Programme 2
Managing Across Cultures & Frontiers
This class aims to allow students to:
Elective subjects
Progressing from your Year 1 choices, choose two or three level 2 subjects* offered by the subjects below:
*for a named specialist pathway choose two subjects and an additional class in the specialist subject, or for the generalist degree choose three subjects.
Compulsory classes
Contemporary Topics in Business & Management
This class will draw on current real-life examples.
Dissertation
To be taken in your principal Business subject if you choose o specialise, or in any area of business if you take the BBA without specialism.
Elective classes
Elective classes
You'll take 3 classes from the level 4 (Honours year) set of classes offered by the Strathclyde Business School. If you choose the BBA degree with specialism in a particular subject field, at least two of those classes must be in that chosen specialism.
Triple-accredited business school
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Learning & teaching
Teaching is over two semesters in blocks of 12 weeks. Classes are taught through lectures, tutorials, and seminars alongside team-based projects, online materials, and interactive sessions using personal response systems.
External contributors from partnership corporate organisations are involved in teaching and/or assessment of student presentations.
The innovative and highly acclaimed Management Development Programme (MDP) is at the core of our undergraduate degrees in the Business School and comprises a series of classes which you take throughout Years 1 to 3.
You develop knowledge and skills in key areas of management, and team-working, communication and decision-making skills, all of which are highly sought-after by employers. Major employers and alumni from all sectors are involved in the MDP, participating in group sessions, observing student presentations, and providing feedback. Organisations involved include Barclays, Deloitte, Procter & Gamble and Ernst & Young. In first year the best teams are selected to present to senior staff in one of the sponsoring organisations, and there are prizes for the best projects. The programme builds your confidence and entrepreneurial capabilities, and promotes awareness of globalisation and ethical issues in personal and business decision-making. In Year 3, you develop your own pathway from internships, involvement with business projects, engagement in interdisciplinary activities and business clinics.For this BBA degree, students take the Leadership Development Programme which is a version of the main MDP.
Assessment
The majority of classes involve a final unseen exam which is normally at the end of the semester. This is normally supplemented by individual and/or group coursework.
Students normally have one opportunity to be re-assessed for a failed class. Exam resits normally take place during the summer.
A range of assessment techniques are used including business reports, case studies, essays, presentations, individual and group projects, learning journals and peer assessments.
Careers
Our graduates are in high demand in both the public and private sector and can choose from a wide range of business careers.
Roles related to your degree include corporate investment banker, management consultant and risk manager.