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GAC Study and Communication Skills

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This strand collects the modules that teach how to study and how to work with other people. GAC003 covers reflective learning, time management and the higher education study environment; GAC006 covers personality, teams and communication; and the newer modules add social emotional learning, education and career navigation, and project based learning with research methods.

The deliverables are documents, not answers. A reflective journal kept over the semester, a planner mapping every deadline, a curriculum vitae and personal statement, a team contract, a research proposal. Each one is produced once and marked once, so the work is the assessment.

The reflective journal usually carries the largest single weight in GAC003. Regular entries in English about your own learning are worth more than any test in that module, which surprises students who plan to revise for it at the end.

What is learned here is used everywhere else. The referencing habits, the group roles and the planning show up again in every other module's project, which is why the strand sits at the start of the programme.

Templates and prompts on this site are ours. The module outcomes are ACT's, and the marking happens at your teaching centre.

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  • 1

    GAC003 Study Skills for Independent Learning

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    • 1.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 1.1 Reflective learning
    • 1.2 Time management I: planning the semester
    • 1.3 Time management II: the working week
    • 1.4 The higher education study environment
    • 1.5 Independent learning
    • 1.6 Effective study strategies, and the CV
  • 2

    GAC006 Business, Science, Social Science and Psychology I: Communication Skills

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    • 2.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 2.1 Understanding self and relationships with others
    • 2.1 The skills of effective communication
    • 2.2 Understanding groups and teams
    • 2.3 Life skills: culture, and working with difference
  • 3

    GAC031 Social Emotional Learning through Project Based Learning

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    • 3.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 3.1 Introduction to social emotional learning
    • 3.2 Project planning
    • 3.3 Design and develop
    • 3.4 Revise and update
    • 3.5 Share, present and reflect
  • 4

    GAC032 Education and Career Navigation: Finding Your Pathways

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    • 4.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 4.1 Create my profile
    • 4.2 Build up your supports and knock down your barriers
    • 4.3 Connect your profile to your goals
    • 4.4 Find good fit colleges
    • 4.5 Develop your college and career pathway
    • 4.6 Build up your career skills
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    GAC033 Project Based Learning and Research Methods

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    • 5.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 5.1 Introducing PBL: the driving question
    • 5.2 Inquiry: the research methods
    • 5.3 Inquiry: gathering information
    • 5.4 Inquiry: the research question
    • 5.5 Synthesis: literature
    • 5.6 Synthesis: the proposal
    • 5.7 Critique: peer review
    • 5.8 Finalize and share: the proposal and presentation

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