Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Brisbane - The Hotel School | ||
| Coffs Harbour | ||
| Gold Coast | ||
| Lismore | ||
| Melbourne | N/A | |
| Melbourne - The Hotel School | ||
| Online | ||
| Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby | N/A | |
| Perth | N/A | |
| Sydney | N/A | |
| Sydney - The Hotel School |
Unit description
Introduces students to learning skills for university study, communication skills, and reading and writing conventions within university discipline focused study. Students will develop understanding of, and skills in, digital literacies within SCU environment, a variety of academic writing genres relevant to their discipline of study, and principles and application of academic integrity.
Unit content
Introduction to academic and learning skills
Principles of academic Integrity
Critical reading
Academic writing
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply independent learning and self-management strategies to their studies. | Ethical practice | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 2 | identify and use different forms of communication relevant to a discipline. | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 3 | apply principles of academic integrity to individual work. | Ethical practice | ||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- apply independent learning and self-management strategies to their studies.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- identify and use different forms of communication relevant to a discipline.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- apply principles of academic integrity to individual work.
- GA3: Ethical practice
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- No prescribed texts.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 1.5 hours (2 x 1.5 hours each week) |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 1.5 hours (2 x 1.5 hours each week) |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial online 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Workshop online 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial online 1.5 hours (2 x 1.5 hours each week) |
| Workshop online 1 hour (Weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Workshop on-site 1 hour (Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) |
| Assessment | |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Essay Plan and Turnitin Reflection | 35% |
| Essay | 45% |
Fee information
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