Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19
This course will equip you with the essential skills required to engage with your postgraduate studies. Through a series of lectures, interactive seminars and authentic materials, you will build on your critical thinking skills with fellow PGT students from across the school. Critical Reading, essay writing and presentation skills will be offered as part of this course, providing students with skills fundamental to PGT and workplace contexts.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Session | First Sub Session | Credit Points | 0 credits (0 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course is designed to support you throughout your postgraduate studies. During the interactive course, you will be guided through various approaches to critically engaging with literature, essay writing and presentation skills. The course will provide you with the enhanced critical skills required at PGT level. The timetable consists of one lecture and one interactive seminar per week where you will engage with classmates on current topics and materials provided. As an interdisciplinary approach to postgraduate studies, this course also provides students with the opportunity to engage with peers from across a variety of PGT programmes thus allowing for true critical discussion and engagement. Contents of the course are designed to serve you on your academic journey and also equip you with appropriate skills for future workplaces. The course is zero credit bearing with one assignment to be submitted at the end of the course delivery. The assignment consists of one, 1,000 word essay based on a core concept delivered on the course.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 9 | Feedback Weeks | 12 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided individually to students and also collectively in a final essay feedback session. |
Word Count | 1000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | To enhance students’ critical thinking skills. Through a robust engagement with texts and detailed discussion on core components of interpreting and analysing academic texts. |
| Factual | Understand | Through the critical evaluation of texts, students will engage with core academic concepts and build on their comprehension of academic texts and engaging with academic literature |
| Procedural | Apply | Will develop their academic presentation & writing skills & learn to engage with academic and lay audiences through a series of interactive seminars. |
| Reflection | Apply | Through engaging with academic content and their peers on this course, students will be equipped with core self-reflection skills and will apply these in seminars and workshops. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 15 | Feedback Weeks | 18 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback per individual essay with support from tutor |
Word Count | 1000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | To enhance students’ critical thinking skills. Through a robust engagement with texts and detailed discussion on core components of interpreting and analysing academic texts. |
| Factual | Understand | Through the critical evaluation of texts, students will engage with core academic concepts and build on their comprehension of academic texts and engaging with academic literature |
| Reflection | Apply | Through engaging with academic content and their peers on this course, students will be equipped with core self-reflection skills and will apply these in seminars and workshops. |
| Procedural | Apply | Will develop their academic presentation & writing skills & learn to engage with academic and lay audiences through a series of interactive seminars. |
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