Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| CELEN121 | Centre for English Language Education | 0 | 10 | Autumn China |
- Code
- CELEN121
- School
- Centre for English Language Education
- Level
- 0
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Autumn China
Summary
Target Students
Preliminary year students taking degree subjects within NUBS, FHSS, and ABE.
Classes
- One 1-hour-30-minute seminar each week for 5 weeks
- One 1-hour-30-minute lecture each week for 11 weeks
Assessment
- 37% Portfolio task 1: Argument Explorer: Learning portfolio with multiple tasks
- 37% Portfolio task 2: Reflecting on the Exploration: 10 multiple-choice Moodle quizzes
- 25% Moodle quiz assessment
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
The module aims to help students increase their awareness of the critical, creative, and reflective thinking skills crucial to success in their university studies, and to apply, test, develop, and reflect upon these skills through consideration of ideas and issues connected closely to their degree subjects and to their lives more generally. It aims to help students understand some of the main limits and possibilities of how we think and learn, and to help them develop their own study practices as they move from high school to university study.Learning Outcomes
Professional communications; reflection: By the end of the module, students will be able to show understanding of the key differences between intuitive and analytical thinking, and the effects these kinds of thinking can have on their beliefs and actions
Professional communications; reflection: Students will be able to show flexible thinking in that they can fairly consider ideas from different points of view
Reflection: Students will be able to reflect upon their learning and show how they can apply their reflections to their future studies and lives
Co-ordinating with others: Students will be able to show an awareness of how they can successfully work with others on group projects and assessments
Professional communications; digital capability: Students will show they can communicate messages effectively using digital and analogue tools
Conveners
- Mr Simon Thomas