SH5054 - Academic skills & literacy: developing critical thinking (2024/25)
| Module specification | Module approved to run in 2024/25 | ||||||||||
| Module title | Academic skills & literacy: developing critical thinking | ||||||||||
| Module level | Intermediate (05) | ||||||||||
| Credit rating for module | 15 | ||||||||||
| School | School of Social Sciences and Professions | ||||||||||
| Total study hours | 150 | ||||||||||
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| Running in 2024/25(Please note that module timeslots are subject to change) |
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Module summary
This module aims to enable students to:
- Apply prior knowledge and relate specific knowledge and skills to continuing development of academic literacy and skills
This module builds on knowledge and skills acquired in the first year of the course and specifically on the academic skills acquired in SH4053 Academic skills/literacy: finding & presenting information. In this, the second of three academic skills and literacy modules in the course, students will extend their academic literacy and skills to encompass obtaining increasingly specialised sources, identifying key aspects of information, establishing validity and processing information to create argument.
Syllabus
Some of the key areas include:
- Developing and refining search techniques
- Critiquing information
- What makes evidence good?
- Identifying opinion, bias and distortion
- Comparing information
- Identifying assumptions
- Identifying uncertainties and ambiguities
- Identifying limits of information
- Avoiding your own assumptions
- Synthesising information
Learning Outcomes LO1 - 5
Balance of independent study and scheduled teaching activity
The module will be delivered using activities based on work required to complete assessments in year two modules. Seminars and workshops will provide students with opportunities to practice specific academic techniques and approaches in a supported and supportive environment. Sessions will also provide opportunities for students to discuss their knowledge and previous experience, helping them to make links between practical and theoretical understanding, as they further develop their academic skills and literacy. Opportunities are provided for individual sessions with tutors to discuss, appraise and plan student’s personal and professional development.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
1. Undertake research to provide new information and detailed knowledge of well-established theories and concepts
2. Utilise a range of approaches to analyse information collected
3. Utilise a range of approaches to evaluate the relevance and significance of information collected
4. Collect and synthesise information to inform a choice of solutions to problems
5. Demonstrate an awareness of the contested nature of knowledge within health and social care
Bibliography
https://rl.talis.com/3/londonmet/lists/76AD8B52-C478-EF1F-0A3D-46E5250B542B.html?lang=en-gb