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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
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