Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Coffs Harbour | | |
| Gold Coast | | |
| Lismore | | |
| Online | | N/A |
Unit description
This discipline unit provides students with opportunities to build personal literacy, as well as the knowledge and skills to apply this in professional settings. Content topics will cover: literacy, professional literacy, and academic literacy.
Unit content
Topic 1: Being a Successful Student
Topic 2: Literacy for All
Topic 3: The Literacy Demands of the 21st Century
Topic 4: Professional Literacy – Reading and Viewing
Topic 5: Professional Literacy – Writing
Topic 6: Professional Literacy – Speaking
Topic 7: Academic Literacy – Reading
Topic 8: Academic Literacy – Academic Referencing
Topic 9: Academic Literacy – Writing Paragraphs and Essays
Topic 10: Academic Literacy – Revision and Examination Preparation
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.
GA1: Intellectual rigour,
GA2: Creativity,
GA3: Ethical practice,
GA4: Knowledge of a discipline,
GA5: Lifelong learning,
GA6: Communication and social skills,
GA7: Cultural competence| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 |
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| 1 | demonstrate personal literacy competence to the high standard required for professional practice | | | | | | Communication and social skills | |
| 2 | analyse a range of texts for their text structure and language features | Intellectual rigour | | | | | Communication and social skills | |
| 3 | create a range of texts for a professional context | | | | | | Communication and social skills | |
| 4 | compose short responses displaying academic writing principles. | Intellectual rigour | | | | | Communication and social skills | |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate personal literacy competence to the high standard required for professional practice
- GA6:
Communication and social skills
- analyse a range of texts for their text structure and language features
- GA1:
Intellectual rigour
- GA6:
Communication and social skills
- create a range of texts for a professional context
- GA6:
Communication and social skills
- compose short responses displaying academic writing principles.
- GA1:
Intellectual rigour
- GA6:
Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
Prescribed texts may change in future study periods.