our major? Idealized Generic BA curriculum: What’s our idealized course for Year One Year Two Year Three Collaborative learning Pair work Small team work (4-6 Large group work skills complexity students) students) Team skills Email and face-to-face Discussion board for Web site for project discussions required project management, management, Gnatt use of wiki, use of charts for tracking LMS collaborative milestones, social tools media, including wiki Creative skills Choose from a range Choose from a range Choose from a range of set of set of questions topics client concerns Technical skills Supplied secondary Supplied primary data Mixed methods data (research methods for data (e.g., percentages) (e.g., spreadsheets) must be gathered and social science) analysed (e.g., interviews and surveys) Communication skills Written expression Written expression, Undergraduate development using a template; oral presentation in conference tutorial participation tutorial; online presentation; online (face-to-face) presentations interactions (Skype) (YouTube) Cognitive skills Critical argumentation Critical perspectives Critical analysis Conceptualizations Definitional and Debateable Multiple perspectives foundational Diversity / International Australian readings; British / North Non Anglosphere Discipline-based American readings; readings; Diverse speakers; internal Diverse university speakers; clients and audiences speakers; Non-University clients clients and audiences Leadership Subject coordinator as Discipline-based Community based client; self-selected clients; self-selected clients; meetings and peers small teams and roles data gathering; assigned large teams and roles
Idealized Generic BA curriculum: What’s our idealized course for our major? Year One Year Two Year Three Collaborative learning skills complexity Pair work Small team work (4-6 students) Large group work students) Team skills Email and face-to-face discussions required Discussion board for project management, use of wiki, use of LMS collaborative tools Web site for project management, Gnatt charts for tracking milestones, social media, including wiki Creative skills Choose from a range of set questions Choose from a range of set topics Choose from a range of client concerns Technical skills (research methods for social science) Supplied secondary data (e.g., percentages) Supplied primary data (e.g., spreadsheets) Mixed methods data must be gathered and analysed (e.g., interviews and surveys) Communication skills development Written expression using a template; tutorial participation (face-to-face) Written expression, oral presentation in tutorial; online presentations (YouTube) Undergraduate conference presentation; online interactions (Skype) Cognitive skills Critical argumentation Critical perspectives Critical analysis Conceptualizations Definitional and foundational Debateable Multiple perspectives Diversity / International Australian readings; Discipline-based speakers; internal clients and audiences British / North American readings; Diverse university speakers; clients Non Anglosphere readings; Diverse speakers; Non-University clients and audiences Leadership Subject coordinator as client; self-selected peers Discipline-based clients; self-selected small teams and roles Community based clients; meetings and data gathering; assigned large teams and roles
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