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Unit of Study COMM1004 - A Culture of Enquiry (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    SCU College

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

The unit develops students’ understanding of the university culture of scholarship whilst developing their critical thinking and information literacy skills.  Students will explore the nature of knowledge, including their own biases and limitations, developing an understanding of how information can be presented and interpreted in relation to a range of real-world, contemporary issues.

Unit content

  1. Critical Thinking: epistemology or how we know, what we know
  2. Critical Thinking: frames & biases  
  3. Information Literacy: current, relevant, authoritative sources 
  4. Communication and collaboration
  5.  Information Literacy: interpreting data 
  6. Academic Integrity: text ownership & authorship

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Term1,3,5
Term1,3,5
Melbourne N/A
Term1,3
Melbourne - The Hotel School N/A
Term5
Online
Term1,3,5
Term1,3,5
Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby N/A
Term3
Perth N/A
Term1,3,5
Sydney N/A
Term1,3
Sydney - The Hotel School N/A
Term5

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:

Apply critical thinking and digital literacy skills to evaluate information in academic and real-world contexts

Work and communicate effectively in diverse teams, demonstrating constructive participation to achieve shared goals

Apply principles of academic integrity, and critically engage with sources of information for university study

Interpret visually represented data to draw conclusions that are accurate, reliable, and based on credible evidence

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