SYKH110 Academic Education and Academic Skills

Contents and structure

The subject aims to develop students' knowledge of different professions, their understanding of their own subject area, and their reflection on learning and ethics. This is done in relation to sustainable development to promote perspectives and theories that increase understanding of contemporary globalisation, and provide a basis for mastering complex challenges. The course helps students be active and curious, take responsibility for their own learning, and develop their ability to innovate.

The concept of sustainability encompasses a conservation perspective, but also includes a desire for innovation and development. Sustainability rests on three equal pillars: ecological sustainability, economic sustainability (including equality), and socio-cultural sustainability (including global social justice).

Education reflects how a person's personality, behaviour, and morals are shaped in a society. The human ability to shape oneself and be shaped by knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour helps people live meaningfully in and with the world. Education is what allows civilised, sustainable, and free societies to exist and enables them to deal with historical situations.

Education builds people and society. Education is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and abilities, an essential part of education that enables people to participate in a changing society.

The writing process is central to academic education, and the academic craft is linked to writing academic texts in this course.

The course is a common subject for all bachelor's programmes at HVL and is taken in the first semester.

The course content includes: ethics, theory of science, scientific methods, sustainability, academic writing, information literacy, use of sources, communication, collaboration, and professional history.

Learning Outcome

Learning outcome

Common part

5 credits

Knowledge

The student

• knows of key issues within their own subject area and within the sciences in general.
• knows about communication and collaboration.
• has knowledge of ethics and sustainability.

Skills

The student

• can reflect on key issues within their own field of study and within science in general, and draw on ethical issues related to these.
• can find, evaluate, and use various sources of knowledge and digital tools in their own knowledge building.
• can apply academic knowledge in academic texts that meet academic requirements.

General

competence

The student

• can plan and carry out varied tasks that extend over time, both independently and as part of a group.
• can exchange and discuss academic viewpoints and be critical of their own subject area and science in general.

Learning outcome concerning the specific subject:

General Competence

The student

• has insight into the The Code of Ethics for Nurses in Norway

Entry requirements

None

Recommended previous knowledge

None

Teaching methods

Student-active teaching methods are used, and digital resources are utilised in the course.

Teaching and learning methods will vary between resource lectures and activities that promote reflection and group activity. Students will receive guidance.

Compulsory learning activities

Compulsory learning activities must be approved before the student can sit the examination in the subject.

• Individual written work in which the student must write an academic text related to their own profession or field of study, up to 500 words.
• Digital course in information literacy to enable students to find, evaluate, and use various sources of knowledge and digital tools in their own knowledge building.
• Participation in guided group work related to communicating key subject matter, discussions about sustainability, and/or reflection on one's own subject area and on science in general.

Assessment

Written semester assignment in groups, length 1500 words +/- 10%.

All members of the group must contribute to a common product. If there is doubt about whether an examination candidate has contributed sufficiently to receive credit for a group product, this must be documented by all group members and the course responsible. The institution may decide that the examination candidate will be considered as not having attended the examination. The student must then submit a new assignment for a new examination. Ref: regulations: § 11-17 Group Examination.

Assessment: Pass/Fail.

New examination: If the examination is not passed, a revised version may be submitted by the end of the following semester at the latest.

Examination support material

All aids are permitted. For more information on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), see Submission of home exams and assignments - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (hvl.no)

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