Plenary Sessions
Details of which sessions you should attend are provided on the BIOL10000 Blackboard site. You should bring a device capable of accessing the internet and your student ID number to these sessions to register your attendance.The plenary session counts towards your tutorial attendance record. If you are ill on the day of the plenary session, you must contact the student support office prior to the plenary session start in order to obtain an excused absence. Contacting your Academic Tutor instead of the student support office will result in your absence being unexcused. If the session allocated to your degree programme clashes with a language unit or BIOL unit, you may attend the other session.
Semester 1 Week 2
Assessment literacy: Understanding Assessments at University
Intended Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this plenary session students should be able to:
- describe the relationship between assessment and learning
- apply a conceptual (and theoretical) understanding of assessment
- describe the nature and meaning of assessment criteria and understanding
- demonstrate skills in self and peer assessment
- select and apply appropriate approaches to assessment tasks
Semester 1 Week 3
Frontiers in Science
Intended Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this plenary session students should be able to:
- develop an increased awareness of contemporary research in the biosciences
- develop and demonstrate effective note-taking skills
- develop an ability to concisely summarise a scientific topic in writing
- identify and discuss the main objectives relating to a particular area of bioscience research
- identify ideas in a coherent manner and communicate these clearly
Semester 1 Week 5
How to write an essay
Intended Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this plenary session students should be able to:
- select and apply appropriate approaches to understanding purpose of essay
- identify appropriate resources to support development of personal skills in essay writing
- search for information and identify relevant data to meet information needs to produce an essay
- identify relevant information to communicate science to specific essay audience
- develop and apply appropriate approaches to avoid plagiarism
Semester 1 Week 8
Communication to different audiences
Intended Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this plenary session students should be able to:
- consolidate knowledge to select and apply appropriate approaches to communicate science to specific audience
- consolidate approaches used to search for information and identify relevant data to meet information needs to communicate science to specific audience
- consolidate knowledge to identify appropriate resources to support communication of science to specific audience
- consolidate knowledge to ensure develop and apply appropriate approaches to avoid plagiarism
- develop and apply a range of transferable skills
- develop the confidence to question information