Professional and Academic Skills [MACC]

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Employ relevant methods and techniques to experiment with and model academic and professional technologies, materials or frameworks in professional curation

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Manage effective reading of research resources in original idea-generation and project-planning

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Challenges related to the use of academic and professional digital technologies, materials or frameworks in professional curation

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Formulate an evidence-based review of inclusive, ethical and sustainable professional development opportunities

Individual contexts and personal statements

Navigation of library resources and other data

Effective, purposeful reading and organisation of material

Professional contexts

Idea-generation, project-definition and problem-solving

Practical planning, costing and time-management

Context-sensitive writing, editing, tuning and pitching

Academic Integrity

Ethics, diversity, inclusion and access

Lectures

student-led presentations

selective weekly feedback

a cumulative series of weekly written tasks, with commentaries, for presentation, group-discussion, and final editing into the assessment submission

Independent research

English for Academic Purposes sessions

Problem-solving techniques workshop

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Project proposal

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment:
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.