Principles of Language and Literacy (EDU103)

Points: 

3

Enrolment Options: 

Murdoch: S1-internal, S1-external
Rockingham: S1-internal

[see Teaching Periods and Census Dates] 

Description: 

This unit provides the understandings about language and literacy essential for primary teachers. It introduces students to several different ways of looking at language and the relationships between language structure and function, language and culture, language and learning, and how language informs our views of the world. The idea that different media, topics, audiences and purposes require different literacies will be explored.

Contact time: 

Lectures/workshops: 3 hours per week.
Rockingham students should note that EDU103 at Rockingham is taught in a combined lecture/workshop format. Rockingham students should enrol in one three-hour workshop. There is no additional lecture.

Prerequisites: 

Nil.
Co-requisite: Internet access if studying externally.

Quota: 

This unit is subject to quota. Quota is due to limited resources and applies to the Rockingham offering. Preference will be given to students in the BEd (Primary) at Rockingham campus.

Used in these Courses: 

Education (BEd) [Early Childhood and Primary Teaching] (Four Years)
Education (BEd) [Primary Teaching] (Four Years)
Education (BEd) [Primary Teaching] (Four Years) + Australian Indigenous Studies (BA)
Education (BEd) [Primary, 1-10 Health and Physical Education]