2008-1-SSK13

Learning and Communication Behaviour

Introduction

Learning and Communication Behaviour, SSK13, introduces students to skills that aid in learning.

This unit covers four key elements: Learning, as an individual, and in a group; Knowledge: its current state, and its various forms; Research skills; and Communication skills.

On completion of this unit students will have increased competence in a range of skills such as: team work; written and oral communication skills; presentation skills; the ability to critically asses their work and course material; and the ability to think critically and analyse a variety of knowledge sources.

This unit equips students to enter their studies confident they have the essential skills and background knowledge that will allow them to focus on their unit-specific learning.

Unit Objectives

The course objectives are to create students who are:

• more effective written communicators across a number of styles of writing;
• more effective oral communicators;
• independent learners who are able to adapt and develop team learning and teamwork disciplines;
• able to assess the viability of knowledge for use in different forums;
• able to critically analyse the relevance of knowledge for specific purposes, across a variety of communicative platforms;
• able to use the library and the internet as a research source; and
• able to reflect upon their learning experience to come to a realistic assessment of their progress.