Year 1 (Bachelors, 60 ECTS)
The first year of the idealised curriculum
Year Description
The first year of study in our critical pegagogy curriculum is spent laying the foundation stones for solid work practice throughout all the remaining years such that economies of scale and self-directed learning and self-reflection are enabled. As is very obvious, it is very heavily reliant on teaching skills in Information Technology which makes up two thirds of the first year content, with the remaining third consisting of a broad but shallow traversal of the great ideas which underpin contemporary society.
Semester 1 Modules
- ID101 General Understanding I (10 ECTS)
- The interdisciplinary topics with which all educated people should be familiar
- IT111 Collaborative Online Information Repositories (20 ECTS)
- How to set up and use a revision tracking collaborative information repository. After the completion of this module all examinations and assignments will be performed using an information repository.
Semester 2 Modules
- ID102 General Understanding II (10 ECTS)
- The interdisciplinary topics with which all educated people should be familiar
- IT101 Saving Time When Using The Computer (10 ECTS)
- How to use time saving techniques such as formatting styles, automatic bibliographies and markup languages (e.g. LaTEX for equation specs).
- IT102 Quickly Searching For Information Using The Computer (10 ECTS)
- How to make full use of the advanced search features of Google and other search engines. How to "follow the scent" using unreliable databases such as Wikipedia.


