Course overview
This course will encourage students to think in new, critical and innovative ways about the world around them and to develop their skills in communicating effectively in both academic and professional environments. Students are introduced to the academic skills required within the university and professional context, including critical thinking, active reading, effective writing, group collaboration and referencing. Students will use these skills to develop their own research topics, considering the case studies presented to them in the weekly lectures together with their own in-depth research and innovative thinking to highlight an issue they believe could provide an important avenue for cultural and creative research.
Course learning outcomes
- explain concepts of language and culture and their role in academic and professional contexts
- identify a range of approaches to research and ethical dimensions of those practices
- gather and process information from a variety of sources
- identify authoring principles and processes for professional and academic purposes and apply these to the writing of texts
- articulate basic Career Management Skills
- evaluate ideas and arguments presented by others as well as their own by thinking critically and innovatively about the world around them