VU21881 - Apply essential further study skills

Unit code: VU21881 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
90
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Footscray Park
St Albans
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
Enquire

Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to study and participate effectively in a tertiary learning environment.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • negotiate and communicate verbally in collaborative learning relationships;
  • communicate complex ideas and relationships in writing;
  • read and interpret complex texts;
  • analyse the relevance of information and information sources;
  • adapt familiar learning strategies to new contexts;
  • planning and organising skills to plan, research and organise academic writing pieces;
  • use a range of research strategies appropriate to an academic context, and;
  • accept new learning challenges.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • text structure, usage and syntax used to interpret text meaning;
  • the role of context in the interpretation of text meaning;
  • academic referencing, including commonly used referencing styles and citations, and;
  • academic standards and protocols related to plagiarism and collusion.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate IV in Tertiary Preparation
22582VIC | Certificate iv | Duration:

Refer to the course page for information on how to apply for the course. VU takes care to ensure the accuracy of this unit information, but reserves the right to change or withdraw courses offered at any time. Please check that unit information is current with the Student Contact Centre.

Search for units, majors & minors