Coordinator: Dr. Letty CHAN
Course Description:
This course aims to improve students’ academic and communication skills for meeting the demands of Nursing Studies. Students will learn to apply strategies for medical vocabulary development, write a reflective essay using appropriate language and style, and conduct research on a health-related topic and present the findings in an oral presentation. Assessment is wholly by coursework.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Recognize medical word elements; analyze, build and define medical terms
- Organise and deliver a presentation that engages the audience
- Describe, analyze and reflect on experiences with accurate and appropriate language in reflective writing, and structure the piece of writing within a given framework
Strategies:
- medical terminology learning and review
- practice in speaking skills
- analysis of reflective writing skills
- peer evaluation of written assignment
- group collaboration in reearch and discussion
Assessment Methods:
(with breakdown of percentage weighting of the various methods)
- Tests (35%)
- Oral Presentations (35%)
- Essays (30%)