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Unit of Study UNIP1006 - Academic Literacies (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    Enabling Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    SCU College

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Introduces students to the culture of academic enquiry. The skills developed in this unit focus on self management and critical thinking, academic reading, writing, and academic integrity.

Unit content

Managing self and growth mindset

Finding, evaluating, critically analysing texts

The culture of writing in a university context

The culture of learning in a university context including awareness of academic integrity

 

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online
Summer Term
Summer Term

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 awareness of academic integrity in assessment tasks

Demonstrate critical analysis in a university context, drawing on academic texts

Demonstrate an understanding of the conventions of academic writing

Reflect on and apply feedback

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.