Learning and Communication Behaviour

Unit code: LCL100

Credit points	12.5 Credit Points
Duration	One Semester
Contact hours	24 hours over the semester, normally 2 Hours per Week
Campus	Hawthorn
Prerequisites	Nil

Related course(s)

Co-badged with SSK13 Learning and Communication Behaviour (Open Universities Australia)

Effective 2010, current students refer to unit outline

This is a prescribed unit of study in the Communication Major/s and Social Science Major/s. It may also be undertaken as a unit of study in any other Swinburne degree program, subject to the prerequisite and degree requirements.

(As from Semester 1 2013, this unit is known as LCL101 Academic Literacies and Communication Practices)

Aims and objectives

This unit aims to develop students’understanding of, and skills for, learning at university and learning online. Using substantive kowledge areas as case studies, students will better understand academic practices and knowledge production, in order to develop good academic practice. They will use these skills to augment their studies in all discipline areas they undertake at in FHEL and Open Universities Australia, and be able to apply them to the workplace.

After completing the unit, students should be able to:

1. Undertake enquiry-based learning and problem solving
2. Apply academic skills in essay writing
3. Search for and identify appropriate sources for assignments
4. Engage critically with academic topics, theories and debates, demonstrating logical and creative thinking and reasoning
5. Communicate effectively with relevant audiences using spoken and written communication skills
6. Understand the impact of social, historical and political influences on the production of knowledge.
7. Problem solve in teams
8. Engage in online learning.

Teaching methods

Weekly one hour lecture, weekly one hour interactive chat session / workshop

Assessment

Research Skills Portfolio Individual 10-20 %
Project Essay Individual 30-40 %
Academic Essay Individual 30-40 %
Critical reading presentation or debate Group 10-20 %

Generic skills outcomes

This unit will provide discipline-based knowledge and professional capabilities and experiences contributing to students’ progress in attaining generic skills such as:
• problem solving skills
• communication skills
• ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• ability to work independently

Content

• Academic enquiry
• Creating knowledge and investigating problems
• Using library resources and finding sources online
• Using, testing and applying theory
• Making an argument
• Communicating your academic argument and drawing on sources
• Language skills
• Knowledge and technology
• Knowledge and culture
• The social construction of knowledge
• Using feedback
• The uses of knowledge / knowledge and ethics.

Reading materials

No prescribed reading, some readings provided on Blackboard

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