Overview

The unit aims to provide students with the essential communication and teamwork skills for a successful professional career. Students will work within a simulated work-like environment that resembles professional practice. Students will undertake team-based activities and explore alternative communications strategies in context and be given the opportunity to reflect on self and others in a professional context. These activities will enhance the student’s capacity for self-reflection, seen as a critical skill in modern workplaces. The unit will also provide students with the capacity to identify their goals and the strategies to realise them in the professional workplace.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving in professional team-based contexts
  • Demonstrate professional communication for a range of audiences, including industry
  • Reflect and evaluate own performance and others, and demonstrate learning for improved practice
  • Link disciplinary knowledge and skills to real-world contexts

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial
2.00 12 weeks 24
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Career Preparedness ExerciseIndividual 5 - 15% 
Critical Thinking TaskIndividual 34 - 45% 3,4 
Project ProposalGroup 10 - 20% 1,2,3,4 
Project and PresentationIndividual/Group 30 - 40% 1,2,4 

Content

  • Identifying your professional skills-Setting and achieving personal and professional goals
  • Team dynamics and group work
  • Verbal and written communication skills
  • Negotiation and conflict management
  • Reflective writing
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving in a professional context
  • Professional workplace cultures
  • Professional ethics
  • The future world of work

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.