Academic Learning Skills

• Topics

  • Introduction to BAR100
  • Critical reading and notemaking
  • Writing for yourself and for others
  • How to Use Other People's Ideas
  • Using critical reading to summarise other people's ideas
  • Writing a scientific report
  • Interpreting and applying numeracy
  • Report Outline and using databases
  • 5 ways to improve your writing
  • Developing an Argument
  • Writing Workshop

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

    • Chat Rooms
    • Disscusion forum/Discussion Board
    • Online Quizzes/Tests
    • Online assignment submission
    • Podcasting/Leacture capture
    • Standard Media
    • Streaming Multimedia
    • Web links

  • Online Materials

    • Resources and Links

Entry Requirements

Equivalent Subjects

You cannot enrol in this unit if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MUR-ISU110
• MUR-ISU102
• MUR-ISU111
• MUR-ISU103
• MUR-PTR120

Special requirements

No special requirements

This Academic Learning Skills subject is for students enrolled in the BA degree. It will help you make the transition to university culture and introduce you to the range of lifelong learning skills needed at university and beyond. These include organisational as well as thinking, problem-solving and communication skills. It will develop interpersonal skills that encourage you to question, listen and act ethically; tolerate ambiguity, embrace openness, curiosity and intellectual risk-taking; and to make connections and work collaboratively. 

• 1200 words (25%)
• Online discussions (15%)
• Develop learning habits (15%)
• 5 minute presentation (10%)
• 10 referencing questions (10%)
• 1000-1200 words (25%)

Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.