- Unit Code & NameAR8112B Learning for Life and Ministry
- Description
Learning for Life and Ministry will help you to cultivate valuable skills that you can apply to your learning at university, life, and ministry. This unit will equip you with skills to navigate online study. It will also help you to grow as a reflective learner, to think and write critically, and provide strategies to manage the competing pressures of life and ministry.
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- DisciplineDelivery ID:
- LevelPostgraduate Foundational
- Semester2. Semester 1, 2025
- Delivery ModeOnline
- Date
24 February 2025 - 30 May 2025
A weekly virtual class will take place on Zoom on Thursdays at 12.30pm - 1:30pm ADST.
We recommend that you allocate 12 hours a week for all study activities.
- Lecturer(s) Major Dr Catherine Spiller | Major Emma Moore
- Prerequisites
No prerequisites required.
- Learning Activities
Readings, videos, group work, lectures, workshops, tutorials, discussion and assessment tasks.
Watch the ‘welcome video’ available in ARK.
*This unit is offered at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level. Students may engage with people across both levels when this unit is delivered.
- Assessments
1 x 3,000 word Portfolio - 50%
1 x 3,000 word Oral Presentation - 50%
- Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:
1. Summarise the place of learning in life and ministry.
2. Use various learning strategies.
3. Demonstrate various academic skills.
4. Discover how to be a workplace learner.
5. Contrast learning styles in different contexts.
- Text Books
You are encouraged to get a copy of Chloe Burrough, The Return to Study Handbook: Study Skills for Mature, Distance and Workplace Learners (London: Kogan Page, 2019). If you are unable to do so, there are hard copies available at EBC library.