Study support - CAPOD (Centre for Academic, Professional and Organisational Development)
The University encourages excellence and innovation in learning and teaching by providing support and guidance for students to develop key independent learning skills (for example study skills, IT, personal development) through provision of individual consultations, seminars, small group workshops/courses, and learning resources (paper and electronic).
The University’s Academic Skills Consultant provides support in a range of academic activities, including:
- Academic referencing
- Avoiding procrastination
- Note taking
- Study techniques
- Study organisation
- Reading skills
- Essay writing
- Report writing
- Lab reports
- Presentation skills
- Research skills
- Exam preparation
Contact
Senior Administrator, CAPOD, Hebdomadar’s Block, St Salvator’s Quadrangle, 75 North Street.
Telephone: 01334 462141
Email: learning@st-andrews.ac.uk
Web: CAPOD
Mathematics Support Centre
CAPOD’s Mathematics Support Centre is a friendly, supportive service where members of the University can get free one-to-one assistance with mathematics- or statistics-based problems. Group sessions can be arranged on request and useful online resources are available from the website. Areas where people often need help include consultations about model construction, data collection and analysis for dissertations, domain-specific topics such as Laplace transforms and Nash equilibria, as well as more generic skills such as:
- Basic maths (fractions, percentages, ratios)
- Logs, indices and the exponential function
- Integration and differentiation
- Differential equations
- Complex numbers
- Mean, standard deviation, and variance
- Correlation and regression
- Experimental design and data analysis
Contact
Senior Administrator, CAPOD, Hebdomadar’s Block, St Salvator’s Quadrangle, 75 North Street.
Telephone: 01334 462141
Email: learning@st-andrews.ac.uk
Web: CAPOD