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Performance, Potential and Development (EDUC10059)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Semester 2
Overview
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This subject will enable students to explore the theory and evidence relating to high performance and optimal functioning across a variety of contexts. Students will reflect on their best possible performing selves by drawing on the academic literature and real-life experiences.
This subject will analyse and review teachable skills and pathways towards high performance. Students will be exposed to a variety of disciplines included, but not limited to psychology, education, social sciences, organisational behaviour and philosophy.
Though an experiential mode of learning, students will learn about a variety of theoretical and evidence-based underpinnings of performance, including growth mindset, self-regulation, emotional intelligence, mindfulness and acceptance based approaches, flow, emotions, resilience, failure, and goal setting.
Students can apply the evidence-based methods to increase their own performance and the performance of those around them.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Gain an interdisciplinary view of performance and potential
- Identify ways this knowledge can be used to help themselves and the people around them
- Apply evidence-based performance interventions to personal life and to others
- Develop a critical perspective of the field, enabling an understanding of the strengths and limitations in performance models, research, and education
- Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in education and other contexts
Generic skills
This subject will assist students to develop the following set of transferable skills:
- Resilience in dealing with set-backs and failure
- Critical and analytical thinking about research and its application across a variety of contexts
- Analytical and cognitive skills through developing ways to apply research to personal experiences, education, sport, and the workplace.
- Creative thinking, with an aptitude for continued self-directed learning through exposure to theoretical frameworks across disciplines.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- Use digital media to demonstrate application of performance concepts, equivalent to (2000 words) due mid semester (50%)
- Reflective journal (2000 words) due end of semester (50%)
Hurdle requirement: Minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Gavin Slemp Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Positive Human Functioning from a Multi-dimensional Perspective (vol 3) Promoting High Performance. Gomes, Resende & Albuquerque (2014). Nova Science, NY. [eBook]. Available through the LMS.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Breadth Track Positive individuals, organisations and communities - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 11 April 2024