Unit of Study COMM3005 Postgraduate Preparation (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

24
Faculty & College

SCU College
Placement

No

Unit description

Builds on students' existing English language abilities in reading, writing, speaking and listening to develop skills to prepare students for Masters’ level studies. Students will engage in a range of in-class activities which use current digital, academic and information literacies within the context of future studies.

Unit content

Upper-Intermediate English forms and functions enabling Master’s level study at SCU (with 6.5 entry), covering:

A range of grammar structures and vocabulary appropriate to academic discourse
A range of discourse markers and cohesive structures appropriate to academic discourse
Maintaining conversations and giving presentations
Listening to and reading academic texts for information
Academic writing genres (reports, essays, discussion boards)
Academic integrity practices: text ownership and authorship
Digital literacy practices: understanding, using, and communicating with multimedia technology

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2025

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Demonstrate an understanding and control of a range of spoken and written academic texts.

Use a range of academic vocabulary and grammatical structures to communicate ideas in speech and writing.

Demonstrate an understanding of text ownership and authorship practices at university through appropriate use of academic integrity practices.

Sustain academic communicative exchanges with other speakers of English.

Demonstrate digital literacy practices including the use of similarity detection tools.

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