FOUD02E1: Scholarship in Higher Education 2

• Scholarship in Higher Education 1

• Advanced Scholarship in HE 1

• None

• To introduce a range of foundation concepts and knowledge to support learning in Higher Education;
• To support the development of effective academic skills and communication;
• To develop reflective practice;
• Structured verbal communication
• To introduce interdisciplinary and collaborative learning and an understanding of academic conventions (norms, values and expectations) in order to prepare students to join the community of practice of their chosen discipline.
• Skills and other attributes
• This module also supports the overall programme aims to enable students to have:
• acquired the ability to work confidently with a range of academic materials and sources (as appropriate to progression subject area);
• acquired the ability to work confidently with numerical data and basic statistics (as appropriate to progression subject area);
• gained various skills for undergraduate study, including the ability to extract and summarise meaning from text, to read rapidly and accurately, to write and present clear and precise arguments using appropriate evidence;
• acquired a level of self-efficacy in relation to workload management, basic academic autonomy and a learner identity as an effective university student;
• gained skills in using libraries, online databases and other reference resources;
• acquired the ability to engage confidently and with clarity in academic oral argument and respond appropriately to contributions made by fellow students.

• Epistemology and the ownership of ideas
• Plagiarism and a range of academic referencing practices
• A range of quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Theories of learning
• Academic information sources and the use of the Library to support learning
• Critical and reflective thinking styles
• The academic learning cycle
• Academic writing styles
• Structured verbal communication

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• By the end of the programme students will have:
• 1. Knowledge of a range of foundational subject concepts
• 2. Knowledge of a range of relevant research methods
• 3. Knowledge of a range of relevant vocabulary

Subject-specific Skills:

• By the end of the programme students will be able to:
• 1. Demonstrate the appropriate use of a range of foundational subject concepts
• 2. Demonstrate the appropriate use of relevant research methods
• 3. Demonstrate the appropriate use of a range of relevant vocabulary

Key Skills:

• By the end of the programme students will be able to:
• 1. Demonstrate critical thinking
• 2. Demonstrate effective communication using appropriate academic styles
• 3. Demonstrate appropriate use of number
• 4. Demonstrate the use of appropriate sources of evidence

• This module will be delivered using a combination of lectures and seminars/tutorials on a weekly basis. Students will be taught concepts and skills then challenged to apply them in a variety of contextual tasks that are designed to lead to achieving the module outcomes.

A range of formative tasks are used on a weekly basis to enable the demonstration of working towards module outcomes and building competency towards each respective summative assessment method.

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