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Unit description

Designed for foundation year students to critique and reflect on English and literacy usage in Australian contemporary society, and to build self-awareness of English language, literacy, and literature knowledge, interests, and capacities. From this strong basis of self-awareness as a speaker, listener, reader, and writer of English, the unit provides students with opportunities to demonstrate English language and literacy usage to the high standard required for professional practice.

Unit content

Module 1: 21st Century literacy landscape.
 
Module 2: Literacy for all.
 
Module 3: Speaking and listening professionally.
 
Module 4: Concepts of reading and viewing for professional learning.
 
Module 5: Concepts of writing and composition I for professionals.
 
Module 6: Concepts of writing and composition II for professionals.
 

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:
1demonstrate knowledge and understandings of the pervasive nature of English and literacy and their role in everyday situations
2demonstrate personal literacy to the high standard required for professional practice
3analyse a range of texts for their text structure and language features
4create a range of texts for a professional context

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate knowledge and understandings of the pervasive nature of English and literacy and their role in everyday situations
  2. demonstrate personal literacy to the high standard required for professional practice
  3. analyse a range of texts for their text structure and language features
  4. create a range of texts for a professional context

Teaching and assessment

Notice

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Fee information

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