SDCM73-100: Professional Portfolio (Workshop Program)

Description

Professional Portfolio (Workshop Program) is a 20-week, 45 credit point subject available to Masters (Professional) students in the Faculty of Society & Design. This subject provides students the opportunity in an authentic learning environment to develop their professional skills for the real world.

The subject encourages students to combine self-analysis and reflective learning skills with professional methodologies to expand their analytic and strategic thinking capabilities. It also provides practical experience for students to appreciate the requirements of industrial practice and develop their communication skills to improve their ‘work readiness’.

Students will complete 20-week Workshop Program on campus that offers students a mix of classroom learning and practical experiences incorporating skills sessions, industry guest involvement, site inspections, projects and practical assessment pieces replicating workplace tasks.

Subject details

Learning outcomes

1. Identify appropriate work opportunities and effectively promote themselves as a desirable potential employee;
2. Instinctively demonstrate the behaviour required of a graduate employee in the workplace;
3. Communicate effectively with others in the workplace and utilise interpersonal skills to become a fully productive member of a team;
4. Through constant review of personal strengths and weaknesses, identify and make the adjustments necessary to improve their employability;
5. Adapt and apply knowledge, critical thinking and practical skills to ‘real world’ situations;
6. Acquire, evaluate and organise the appropriate information required to complete an allotted task/project;
7. Gain relevant input &/or demonstrate appropriate initiative to make informed decisions and be able to work under limited supervision.

Enrolment requirements

Subject outlines

• January 2021 [Standard - Weeks 1-20]
• September 2020 [Standard - Professional Portfolio - Workshop Program]
• May 2020 [Standard]
• January 2020 [Standard]
• January 2020 [Situated]
• September 2019 [Standard]
• September 2019 [Situated]
• January 2019 [Standard]
• January 2019 [Situated]
• September 2018 [Standard]
• May 2018 [Standard]
• January 2018 [Situated]
• September 2017 [Supervised*]
• May 2017 [Standard]

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