BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

• Week 1:

15 Hours - Reading: Start reading. Comprehensive reading of the assigned textbook.
1 Hour - Key concepts: Email submission of the key concepts of the first 150 pages aprox.
1 Hour - Advice: Teacher's feedback, and guidance upon request (email or phone) along the reading.

• Week 2:

15 Hours - Reading: Continue reading. Comprehensive reading of the assigned textbook.
1 Hour - Key concepts: Email submission of the key concepts up to page 300 aprox.
1 Hour - Advice: Teacher's feedback, and guidance upon request (email or phone) along the reading.

• Week 3:

15 Hours - Reading: Continue reading. Comprehensive reading of the assigned textbook.
1 Hour - Key concepts: Email submission of the key concepts up to page 450 aprox.
1 Hour - Advice: Teacher's feedback, and guidance upon request (email or phone) along the reading.

• Week 4:

15 Hours - Reading: Finish reading. Comprehensive reading of the assigned textbook.
1 Hour - Key concepts: Email submission of the key ideas of the subject (table of contents).
1 Hour - Guidance: Teacher/student set up of the synopsis objectives and development of the key ideas.

• Week 5:

5 Hours - Writing: First synopsis without textbook assistance. Email submission of synopsis draft.
2 Hours - Guidance: Teacher's guidelines to ensure student comprehension and detect understanding errors.

• Week 6:

4 Hours - Writing: Synopsis review with textbook assistance and teacher's guidelines.
1 Hour - Monitoring: Teacher's monitoring to ensure student comprehension and progress.

• Week 7:

4 Hours - Writing: Final synopsis writing with textbook assistance. Text review to ensure summary accuracy.
1 Hour - Evaluation: Email submission of the reviewed summary. Teacher's evaluation of the synopsis.

• Week 8:

1 Hour - Guidance: Teacher's feedback and final comprehension guidelines about the textbook contents.
2 Hours - Discussion: Teacher/student selection of the appropriate case study or an illustrative example.

• Week 9:

5 Hours - Writing: Analysis of the case study. Email submission of the case study conclusions.
2 Hours - Discussion: Teacher's advise and email discussion about the student arguments and criteria.

• Week 10:

4 Hours - Writing: Writing of the final report integrating key concepts, synopsis and conclusions.
1 Hour - Advice: Teacher's guidance upon request (email or phone) along the report writing process.

• Week 11:

4 Hours - Writing: Final formatting, production and submission of the report.
1 Hour - Advice: Teacher's guidance upon request (email or phone) along the report formatting process.

• Week 12:

3 Hours - Evaluation: Teacher's evaluation of the submitted report. First correction results.

• Week 13:

3 Hours - Evaluation: Supervisor evaluation of the submitted report. Second correction results.
1 Hour - Feedback: Final grade. Improvement and assessment comments about the evaluated report.