| Assessment |
| Title |
Exam Length |
Weight |
Mode |
No. Words |
| Assignment 1: Project |
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25%
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3500-4000 |
| Assessment Notes |
| Communication Studies Discipline Module |
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| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-5
GA: 1-7 |
| Assignment 2: Project |
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25%
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3500-4000 |
| Assessment Notes |
| Communication Studies Discipline Module |
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| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-5
GA: 1-7 |
| Assignment 3: Project |
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25%
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3500-4000 |
| Assessment Notes |
| Honours Core Module |
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| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-5
GA: 1-7 |
| Assignment 4: Project |
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25%
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3500-4000 |
| Assessment Notes |
| Honours Core Module |
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| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-5
GA: 1-7 |
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| Graduate Attributes (GA) |
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Attribute |
Taught |
Assessed |
Practised |
| 1 |
Knowledge of a Discipline
This unit explores the fields of study, approaches and concerns that are central to communication studies.
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Communication Skills
Through guidance and feedback on written papers and oral presentations, students will be taught to communicate effectively in a style and register appropriate to the discipline of communication studies. Appropriate formal style and clarity of argument, expression and referencing are important criteria in the examination of written assessment tasks.
In producing assignments, students will practise written communication skills; through seminar participation or presentations they will practise oral communication skills.
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Global Perspectives
Questions of 'globalisation' and of intercultural relations within national, regional and international contexts are central to the disciplinary concerns of communication studies that will be taught. Understanding of the issues and debates pertaining to the culturally variable dimensions of communication practices will be relevant to research and assessment tasks and hence come under consideration when papers are assessed.
Students will need to negotiate issues and arguments pertaining to intercultural relations during the research and writing stages of course work.
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Information Literacy
Lecturers or other appropriate University staff will instruct students in the use of databases for bibliographical and other information and in advanced internet searching, to support the coursework and the dissertation in Honours.
Competence in the use of such information tools will be displayed in the quality of research within written papers and hence come under consideration when these tasks are assessed. Students will practise the techniques in which they are instructed by their lecturers or other University staff members, in the completion of the relevant task.
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Life-Long Learning
The integrated nature of this unit means that students will be required to apply research, writing and presentation techniques taught directly in one component of the Honours Coursework unit to others: this will equip graduates for writing and presenting researched papers to a professional standard in contexts beyond a narrow field of expertise, whether in their chosen line of work or for personal fulfilment. The ability to transfer research, writing and presentation techniques appropriately to varying assessment tasks will be reflected in the quality of the tasks, and hence be assessed by markers.
Such techniques are integral to the composition of Honours assessment tasks, and so these skills that constitute 'lifelong learning' will be practised within this unit.
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| 6 |
Problem Solving
The methodological components of the modules within this coursework unit will teach students strategies for solving intricate problems; the other integrated components of the unit (including the case studies requiring independent treatment of methods and issues by the students) will provide a broad forum in which they can apply problem solving methods. Problem solving will be directly assessed in the set tasks for the methodology components, and indirectly in assessment tasks for other components where these methodological strategies should be applied. This will be practised in the set work on methodological approaches; the ability to transfer problem-solving skills will be practised in other learning activities when there is the need to apply methodological techniques to a range of examples and materials.
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Social Responsibility
Lecturers will advise and correct students in their research and writing on the levels of professionalism required in the execution of tasks for coursework components, which may include training in the use of inclusive language, ethical research techniques, and negotiating cultural sensitivities in the pursuit of their research goals. The professional use of language and research techniques, and sensitivity towards cultures or other groups, are encouraged in the process and products of study in the unit: signs of unprofessional practice in this regard may come before the scrutiny of examiners. The procedures of social responsibility will be practised by the student during the research and/or writing stages of tasks set for this coursework unit.
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Team Work
Students will engage in group tasks in the seminar context under the guidance of a lecturer who will guide them in the etiquette of teamwork, and assist in developing leadership skills. Students will be required to operate within a seminar structure in which the group has to debate and discuss issues, ultimately coming to a solution for a question or problem set by their lecturer; students will have the opportunity to 'guide' the team when making seminar presentations.
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