Listed below are topics or scenarios you may be required to reflect upon throughout your studies.

A practical (hands on) learning experience in your unit, such as:

• Nursing – a clinical placement
• Education – a teaching practicum in a school
• Occupational Therapy – a facility placement or internship
• Architecture – a group project.

A review of what you are learning in your unit, such as:

• Your personal views of what you are learning in relation to the unit’s contents
• Comparing and making links between what you are learning and the knowledge you bring with you
• An evaluation of your own beliefs, assumptions and values and how they are changing through your studies.

Responding to a set reading, image, podcast or other form of text, such as:

• Explaining your understanding of the main ideas
• Describing what ideas you agree or disagree with and why
• How the main ideas are significant in relation to other texts you are reading or examining
• How the text is challenging your own thinking and assumptions.

 A past experience, e.g.:

• A major cross roads in your life
• What influenced you to come to university? This could be a series of sequential experiences or one particular incident.

To identify and examine your own thinking, i.e.:

• What are my beliefs about life in general?
• What are my ethical values?
• What are my social/cultural attitudes?
• What assumptions do I make about being a university student?
• What are my needs and why have I chosen this particular course/discipline?

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