Examples of Aims and Learning Outcomes
The following examples come from each of the faculties:
Health Sciences
HLTH 1002 Critical Thinking in Health Care
Educational Aims
The aim of this topic is to:
- introduce students to a broad variety of contemporary ethical and legal issues emerging within the health care system
- provide a framework for resolving problems as they apply to health service delivery.
Expected Learning Outcomes
On completion of this topic, students will be expected to be able to:
- develop an understanding of both ethical and legal concepts
- form an appreciation of how these concepts and the theories that underpin them apply to the complex interrelationship between health care provider, consumer, the institution and the community
- explore the ethical and legal dimensions of their field of work within the health care system
- develop skills in ethical and legal reasoning in relation to various issues and problems at a beginning level
- practice articulating and expressing an ethical position.
Science and Engineering
BIOL 1101 Biology 1A: Biological Diversity
Aims
This topic aims to provide a basic understanding of:
- the evolution of life on Earth
- the classification of living organisms
- nutrition and reproduction
- how organisms adapt to changes in their environment within their own lifetimes
- how organisms adapt to changes in their environment over many generations
- how organisms interact with one another
Expected Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this topic students will have:
- A basic understanding of the areas covered by the syllabus. This is assessed with the aid of a multiple-choice exam at the end of the semester.
- Basic laboratory skills including technical skills, the ability to design and interpret the results of experiments, the ability to maintain a laboratory notebook and to write a scientific report. Students submit their laboratory notebook for assessment on a weekly basis. Students also write a detailed report on an experiment designed an carried out by themselves at home.
- Basic skills in searching for, retrieving and interpreting articles published in scientific journals. Students are assessed on their ability to write a review of a scientific article of their own choice.
- In the laboratory and in the tutorials students will develop generic
skills such as the ability to work as part of a team and to solve
practical problems. Students are assessed on the results of three group
projects
submitted at intervals throughout the semester.
Education, Humanities, Law and Theology
EDCT 4006 or 4006A Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Students
Aims
This topic aims to assist students to teach Indigenous students in both rural and urban contexts by developing understanding of the issues in, and models of, contemporary Australian Indigenous education, to consider their own positions in relation to Indigenous peoples and to critically reflect upon the construction of education for Indigenous peoples.
Learning outcomes:
Knowledge and skills in
- Recognising the construction of 'race' as an historical and political movement
- Identifying anti-racist education strategies
- Developing a histography of the Indigenous education movement
- Developing a critical stance on issues and practices in Indigenous education
- Developing a range of strategies for teaching Indigenous students
Social Sciences
PSYC3033: Development During Adulthood and Ageing
Aims
This topic seeks to have students achieve an understanding of:
- human development and ageing as a life-long process
- how developmental theories, methods and research findings are inherently linked to provide an empirical (evidence) base for the discipline
- key issues in normal cognitive, social and personality development during adulthood, and their intersection with bodily ageing
- exceptions to 'normal' ageing, e.g., the dementias and depression
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion students will have had an opportunity to acquire or enhance:
- a working knowledge of the above broad areas, gleaned from lectures, readings, assignments and interactions with the convener and peers
- reasoning and critical thinking, necessary for satisfactory completion of exams and assignments
- discipline-based writing skills, APA-style conventions and statistical inference and interpretation skills (through assimilation of results of research papers, linking results to hypotheses, drawing valid conclusions in order to interpret results and to plan research)
- information-seeking skills, through the use of electronic resources available via the library and the over the Internet
- communication skills, facilitated through small group discussions and brief presentations to the class
- flexible learning capacity through FLO and other on-line activities