FF500: Introduction to subject, research and community of practice (5 ECTS)

STADS: 0002901

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: shan@sdu.dk

Timetable
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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
None

Course introduction
The aim of the course is that the student experiences a scholarly identity creating and retaining introduction to his study program. The course develops the student’s study competences through introduction to study strategies and active participation in scholarly activities.

Throughout the course the student establishes his personal learning plan to organize his learning process, and is associated to a study group, which constitutes itself by a study group contract.  Throughout the course the student is involved in problem solving anchored in topics from the student’s introductory courses.

Qualifications
Study competence, problem solving competence and representation competence

Expected learning outcome
Intended learning outcomes
• After completing the course the student is expected to be able to:
• The student applies study and learning strategies to organize hers/his own learning in relation to the intended learning outcomes, learning activities and assessment tasks.
• The student establishes working relationships to his fellow students and describes his role as an active participant in the study program’s social and academic learning activities
• The student specifies and analyzes a problem in pre-formulated form and communicates the solving process and the result of the process.
• The student identifies different science representations (textual, auditory, visual, symbolic, iconic, graphical, tabular, static or dynamic) and applies them in problem solving.

Subject overview
Topics covered
Study group: Work in collaborative groups, communication, planning, conflict management, group forming and constitution and study group contract
The student’s learning: Introduction to e-learning, laboratory security, study and learning strategies, harmonization of expectations, ethical standards in academia and the student’s personal learning plan.
Problem solving anchored in topics from the student’s introductory courses.

Literature
There isn't any litterature for the course at the moment.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:

1. Mandatory Assignments. Pass/fail, internal examiner (0 ECTS). (0002912).
2. Take home-exam. Pass/fail, internal examiner (5 ECTS).  (0002902).

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 5 hours
Skills training phase: 12 hours, hereof:
 - Tutorials: 5 hours
 - Laboratory exercises: 7 hours

Educational activities Study phase: 6 hours
Educational form

Language
This course is taught in Danish or English, depending on the lecturer.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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