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Generic Skills

     
     

Summary of Main Generic Skills Covered in GEOS219

Skills Principal Relevant Sections of Teaching Program
Bibliographic Searching Tutorials (Library familiarisation, Population resources on the World Wide Web), Research Exercise, Essay Assignment
Locating and Using Databases Tutorials (Library familiarisation, Population resources on the
World Wide Web, LGA population profile), Research Exercise,
Essay Assignment
Qualitative Data Analysis

Tutorial (Asian media analysis)

Quantitative Data Analysis

Tutorial (LGA population profile), Research Exercise, Essay Assignment

Using Software Tutorial (Intlpop package), Research Exercise and Essay Assignment (word processing, opportunity to use Excel spreadsheet package), Email and Bulletin Board
Written Communication Research Exercise, Essay Assignment, Exam, Tutorials (overhead transparencies prepared for presentations)

Oral Communication

  1. preparing, presenting
    and critiquing
  2. debate

Tutorials (LGA population profile, Asian media analysis, Asia-Pacific Population Forum)
Tutorial (Population size and growth - the Australian debate)

Summarising and Evaluating Arguments Lectures, Research Exercise, Essay Assignment, Tutorials
(overhead transparencies, summaries of reading), Exam

 

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Authorised by: Dr K. McCracken
Date: 11.12.2005
Revised: 14.01.2008
Designed and compiled by: J.Davis
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