This programme has been designed to ensure you achieve high academic standards and gain the skills and knowledge needed to succeed at university.
Course
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Academic Skills for Computer Science FC0004
Module information>
You will gain the academic skills necessary to complete the programme and enter degree-level education. This module is divided into two sections that complement each other. The qualitative section develops your critical thinking and effective communication skills, while the quantitative section will introduce you to exploratory data analysis, with an emphasis on descriptive statistics and data visualisation.
About this module
The course is evenly divided between a qualitative section covering computer ethics, critical thinking and effective communication and a quantitative section covering exploratory data analysis, with an emphasis on descriptive statistics and data visualisation.
Topics covered
- Developing critical thinking skills (Part 1)
- Developing critical thinking skills (Part 2)
- Developing effective presentation skills (Part 1)
- Developing effective presentation skills (Part 2)
- Writing short proposals and reports (Part 1)
- Writing short proposals and reports (Part 2)
- Identifying legal, moral, ethical and cultural issues (Part 1)
- Identifying legal, moral, ethical and cultural issues (Part 2)
- Identifying and working with different types of data (Part 1)
- Identifying and working with different types of data (Part 2)
- Calculating and interpreting measures of location (Part 1)
- Calculating and interpreting measures of location (Part 2)
- Calculating and interpreting measures of dispersion (Part 1)
- Calculating and interpreting measures of dispersion (Part 2)
- Producing different types of data visualisation (Part 1)
- Producing different types of data visualisation (Part 2)
Learning outcomes
If you complete the module successfully, you will be able to:
- identify and critically evaluate ethical issues
- write short descriptions and orally present information
- apply common descriptive statistics to summarise datasets numerically
- create engaging dashboards to visualise data to explore patterns and relationships between variables.
Assessment
Unseen written exam (Two-hour 15 minutes).
