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VIS3101

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Art, Design and Architecture

Organisational Unit

Gippsland Centre for Art and Design

Coordinator(s)

Tony Hanning

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

This unit allows students to undertake a work placement within their degree discipline for 12 weeks. Students will develop understanding and skills relevant to job planning, time management and the requirements of working with others in a position of responsibility. Through participation and analysis in the workplace the characteristics of an organisation that support the achievement of its goals will be identified as well as the external factors that impact on an organisation and its industry sector.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit students will demonstrate:

  1. A sound understanding of the requirements of working with others in a position of responsibility
  2. Well developed skills of job planning, time management and the organisation of work in a cooperative fashion
  3. Application of the knowledge and skills acquired during their academic studies to the requirements of the workplace
  4. An ability to set personal goals and to find and use the resources to pursue these goals in a way appropriate to the workplace
  5. An ability to identify the characteristics of an organisation that support achievement of its goals
  6. An ability to identify the external factors that impact on an organisation and its industry sector

Assessment

Learning contract: 10%
Journal: 30%
Project: 60%

Workload requirements

420 hours work placement, 39 hours independant study

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Chief examiner(s)

Tony Hanning

Prerequisites

Admission to the Cooperative Education Program and completion of 84 credit points in the Bachelor of Visual Arts, Gippsland Campus.