Module FOUD01V1: Advanced Scholarship in Higher Education 1

Department: Foundation Year (Durham)

FOUD01V1: Advanced Scholarship in Higher Education 1

Prerequisites

• Scholarship in Higher Education 1

Corequisites

• Scholarship in Higher Education 2

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To develop independent research skills;
• To develop critical analysis;
• To develop an understanding of different types of data and their uses;
• To develop effective academic communication skills and conventions (as appropriate to progression subject area);
• To develop an understanding of research ethics (as appropriate to progression subject area).
• To provide students with a background in academic conventions and expectations in order to prepare them 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.

Content

• The research cycle
• Research ethics
• Academic referencing
• A range of quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Analysing and presenting quantitative and qualitative data
• Academic information sources and the use of the Library to support learning
• Critical and reflective thinking
• Academic writing styles

Learning Outcomes

• 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

• 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

• 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

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• This module will be delivered using seminars/tutorials on a weekly basis. Students will be taught research skills then challenged to apply them in their own sphere of research to specific tasks in order to achieve the module outcomes.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

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.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University