Smart Thinking
This series of four seminars covers methods for achieving deeper learning and the essential skills of independent thinking. It is designed to teach students how to think critically, analyse and evaluate when writing assignments, and beyond. It provides strategies for managing time by recognising your own peak intellectual periods, and offers techniques for succeeding in examinations.
1. Critical thinking
Critical thinking is an essential process required for all university assessment. This session will cover the important skills of independent thinking, the techniques of debating a point and drawing conclusions.
2. Time management
This session covers methods for making the best use of your time by recognising your own peak intellectual periods. We will discuss planning time schedules, and the value of short and long term goals in achieving one’s objectives.
3. Reading to understand difficult academic texts
Have you ever read a page of text and then wondered what it was all about? In this session, students will become aware of the writer’s structural cues that indicate where the most relevant meaning lies, and will learn how sifting for significance leads to comprehensive understanding of a difficult passage.
4. Preparing for tests and exams - revision and retention strategies
In the final seminar of the series we will deal with the process of preparing for exams, managing the workload, strategies for retaining the information you study, and techniques for writing high quality scripts in the examination itself.
Tutor: Val Melhop
Dates and times
- Wednesday, 1 February to 22 February 2012, from 11.00 am to 11.50 am: passed
- Wednesday, 7 March to 28 March 2012, from 12.00 pm to 12.50 pm: enrolment full: venue>>
The next set of dates for this learning event has not yet been scheduled.
It is most beneficial to enrol for the whole course, but students are welcome to attend individual sessions if they wish. Coffee and tea will be provided.
Even if workshops are fully booked, it is likely there will be space on the day, so feel free to turn up. If you would like to be notified when this course is next scheduled, request it at a different time or day, or just find out more, email Val.