Course code: 3087 + Mid-year entry available + Clayton campus + Course coordinator: Janne Skinner
The key objective of this course is to facilitate the transition of graduates into the workplace by developing in students a professional practice approach to work. The units in this course use practice-based classroom activities that link the extensive range of skills and understandings acquired in a generalist academic degree (such as an arts or social science degree) with the specific expertise and understandings required in contemporary workplaces. The course builds on, expands and extends the generic and specific disciplinary skills and knowledge students have acquired in the course of their bachelors degree by placing students within a professional context via workplace simulations and demonstrating the different ways such skills and knowledge can be applied. It is intended to provide a bridge to the professional workplace through a variety of means. First, it develops the student's understanding of how the contemporary labour market works and how to best position themselves within it. Second, it develops the student's capacity to conceptualise and market their existing skills-base and to build upon these, not just during the course but as an ongoing professional development approach to their careers. Third, the course facilitates the acquisition of workplace-oriented skills such as teamwork, research and communication skills within a broader understanding of how organisations function.
A Bachelor of Arts or other generalist undergraduate degree.
Students complete 24 points consisting of units chosen from the list below:
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