Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Critical Reflection (Tutorial)

Scaffolded with weekly learning activities, this task should be delivered as a final assessment item as it builds upon tutorial worksheets and activities undertaken throughout the teaching period. Students complete weekly worksheets during tutorials which they submit at the end of semester. To supplement this, students also write a 500 word critical reflection on their key learnings over the course of the semester, and commentary on how their disciplinary skills might have developed. Reflections should be individual, but should all emphasise reflexivity with regards to the various intellectual, professional and applied research skills developed throughout the course. For example, students might reflect on the specific ways in which they engaged with disciplinary processes contained in previous assessment items. In SOCY2019, this has meant considering various aspects of a major social research project , such as knowledge of a research topic; the refining of research questions; or how they obtained a deeper understanding of ethical issues related to a research topic. To receive full marks students must have participated in at least nine out of ten tutorials by completing worksheets for each. This technique is also useful for informing amendments to course content as part of engaging students as partners in curriculum design.