Professional Masters Career Management
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 Hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
Aims and objectives
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 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.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving in professional team-based contexts.
2. Demonstrate professional communication for a range of audiences, including industry
3. Reflect and evaluate own performance and others, and demonstrate learning for improved practice
4. Link disciplinary knowledge and skills to real-world contexts
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
*Scheduled face to face: Lectures (12 hours), Tutorials (24 hours),
*Scheduled synchronous online learning events (n/a)
Non-scheduled online learning events and activities (total 12 hours)
Other non-scheduled learning events and activities including independent study (total 102 hours)
Assessment
| Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs | |
| Skills Audit | Individual | 5%-15% | 3 |
| Project Plan | Group | 10%- 20% | 1,2,3 & 4 |
| Project Presentation | Group & individual | 30%-40% | 1,2 & 4 |
| Critical Reflection | Individual | 35%-45% | 3 & 4 |
As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all Unit Learning Outcomes to a minimum standard, a student must achieve:
(i) an overall mark for the unit of 50% or more.
General skills outcomes
During this unit students will receive feedback on the following key generic skills:
- teamwork skills
- problem solving skills
- analysis skills
- communication skills
- ability to tackle unfamiliar problems, and
- ability to work independently
Content
• Managing self and others
• Communication skills-verbal, written
• Negotiation and conflict management
• Reflective writing
• Critical thinking and problem solving in a professional context
• Professional workplace culture(s)
• Identifying your professional skills- setting & achieving personal and professional goals
• Professional ethics
• The future world of work: - its implications
Study resources
- Reading materials and references.