TGTU86 · 6 credits · Basic level (G1F) · Inget huvudområde
Scientific Communication and Ethics
Discontinued · replaced by TTII01
100%
passed the latest regular sitting
UPG1 · 28 Jan 2025 · 59 students
100%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
UPG1 · 111 students
This module only reports passing results, so the pass rate does not show how many did not pass.
Part of 4 programmes
Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Individual written assignments
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 111 students
- 100%59
- 100%52
Later rounds
100% passed · 6 students
- 100%6
- Pass a later round: 100% (6 students), compared with 100% (111 students) on the ordinary exam
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
UPG2 Individual oral assignments
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 114 students
- 100%58
- 100%56
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
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Hand-in or lab
UPG3 Ethics assignment
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 91 students
- 100%39
- 100%52
Later rounds
100% passed · 20 students
- 100%7
- 100%13
- Pass a later round: 100% (20 students), compared with 100% (91 students) on the ordinary exam
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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About the course
Aim
The student should be able to describe the requirements that different communication situations set, increase the skill in verbal and written communication and to illustrate some language theoretical questions. After the course, the student should be able to:
- have knowledge about scientific communication processes and to understand how information resources are organized.
- use relevant tools for information retrieval and to critical scrutinize the result
- communicate according to given conditions
- structure and present information
- act as opponent on other students' texts and verbal presentations
- describe and use basic ethical theories, principles and concepts to discuss ethical problems in natural sciences and technology.
- explain the importance of professional responsibility.
As part of this the student has to know how to
- apply various aspects of linguistic theory on the student’s own communication
- argue both in oral and written form due to given conditions
- present information both in oral and written form
- analyse and evaluate both oral and written communication
- discuss, on the basis of ethical theory, ethical implications of specific cases in science and technology.
Content
The lectures discuss:
- General communication theory and how to act as opponent on other written presentations
- Oral presentation
- Information retrieval
- Rhetoric
- Ethical theories, principles and concepts
- Examiner
- Birgitte Saxtrup Hermansson
- Scheduled hours
- 42 h
- Main field of study
- Inget huvudområde