Undergraduate - UnitIAR4406 - Industrial experience

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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0 points, SCA Band 2, 0.000 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Organisational Unit	Department of Architecture
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2015 (Off-campus Day) Caulfield Second semester 2015 (Off-campus Day)
Coordinator(s)	Ms Charity Edwards

Synopsis

A period of approved industrial placement (normally six weeks) in an interior architecture or design practice normally taken no earlier than the end of the third year and preferably before the commencement of the fourth year. In many instances students will use the contacts they develop in this unit to help identify an honours project topic.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will:

Be able to perform a variety of tasks to an adequate professional standard within an architectural/interior architectural working environment
Be able to operate effectively and constructively as a team-member within an architectural/interior architectural project team
Be able to reflect critically upon the operational strengths and weaknesses of project and office management procedures employed within an architectural/interior architectural professional context
Understand from first hand experience a variety of the tasks and problems that constitute interior architecture practice, and be able to describe approaches to them.

Assessment

Consultation with staff of the practice (review of a log book and the satisfactory completion of the tasks documented in it): Pass grade only

Workload requirements

240 hours at approved work sites

Chief examiner(s)

Ms Charity Edwards

Prerequisites

IAR3106 and PPR3108 Or IAR3116 and PPR3102