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Module UNIVERSAL CRITICAL SKILLS (INTRODUCTION TO UNIVERSITY LEARNING AND BEYOND) - B

Module code: SK1062
Credits: 7.5
Semester: 2
Quota: 100
Department: CRITICAL SKILLS
International: Yes
Coordinator: Dr Brian McKenzie (CRITICAL SKILLS)
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Upon successful completion of the second semester of Critical Skills, we expect that students will:
• Strengthen quantitative reasoning and numeracy skills including a basic understanding of descriptive statistics
• Learn the principles of data visualisation; gain confidence in interpreting data visualisations; develop skills to create reliable visual narratives with data
• Appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of working collaboratively; understand the characteristics of effective teamwork and group communication; approach teamwork with empathy for individual members of and appreciate how diversity,
strengthens teamwork
• Learn how to use electronic tools to professionally organise and manage team projects
• Understand the connection between learning and students’ civic, global, and community engagement
• Appreciate the value of curiosity, persistence, and agency in the context of their development as learners
• Develop functional, critical, and rhetorical literacies involving digital technologies and multimodal writing
• Transfer academic writing knowledge and practice developed within the module to rhetorical situations beyond the classroom and academic audiences
• Understand the relationship between emerging digital tools and literacy
• Compose complex digital texts, such as podcasts, that translate scholarly research into multiple semiotic modes

Open Teaching & Learning methods
 
Open Assessment
 
Open Autumn Supplementals/Resits
 
Open Pre-Requisites
 
Open Additional Reading
 
Open Timetable
 
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