On successful completion of the programme students will be able to:
1. Recognise and apply knowledge of English academic literacy, language and skills required in your future postgraduate programmes.
2. Demonstrate audience and discourse awareness, including an understanding of typical genres in your own discipline.
3. Display awareness of academic integrity conventions and practices.
Skills learning outcomes
On successful completion of the programme students will be able to:
4. Use English to communicate competently within academic contexts.
5. Apply appropriate academic integrity conventions and practices within your own studies.
6. Justify appropriate strategies to approach your studies in English.
Competence standards
· Effectively evaluate, select and communicate key academic facts, ideas and results in English.
· Effectively use theoretical and practical knowledge in English to respond to academic tasks.
· Effectively apply acquired theoretical and practical knowledge of English to academic study.
· Effectively apply general principles and practices of academic integrity in a higher education context.
Progress and achievement are assessed through a variety of formative and summative tasks, with ample opportunity for tutor and peer feedback and self-evaluation. Assessment tasks are aligned fully with the knowledge and skills learning outcomes outlined above and ensure assessment of:
· competence in the language, skills, knowledge and understanding required of a student entering postgraduate-level study
· effective performance required in the context of a university-based academic environment, through integrated assessments that cover all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking).
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