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OLET1405: Student Leadership: Representation
2024 unit information
This OLE aims to give students theoretical and practical underpinning for their leadership aspirations and provide students with the opportunity to develop and practise relevant skills. The curriculum includes provision of foundational areas to support and inform study into leadership skills, the opportunity to broadly apply leadership skills and a strong focus on personal development and communication. The UoS comprises of a core 0 CP UoS called Student Leadership: Core and a 2 CP UoS called Student Leadership: Representation whereby the focus is on leadership in representative scenarios such as committees, networking groups and education organisations. Students wishing to extend their leadership knowledge can undertake related Student Leadership OLEs in Community Engagement and Peer Mentoring, each of 2 credits points, to scaffold student achievement.
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Health Sciences
| Code | OLET1405 |
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| Academic unit | Health Sciences |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. critically reflect on the purpose of higher education and the reasons for being a student representative
- LO2. explore the reasons for becoming a student representative, and reflect on the experiences of some University of Sydney student representatives
- LO3. understand the skills needed for effective representation
- LO4. identify the benefits and challenges of student representation
- LO5. explore the activities involved in being a student representative
- LO6. critically reflect on the ethical dimensions of participating in student representation
- LO7. work through some common scenarios you may encounter as a student representative.
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