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Positive Leadership and Careers (EDUC30072)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5Not available in 2017
Overview
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In this subject, students will explore positive approaches to career choice, career management, and leadership.
Students will investigate key questions such as: How much does money matter? What are the factors that promote flourishing in education and throughout one’s career? What approaches can be used to promote flourishing in ongoing learning, education, and career development practices? What is positive leadership and how can it be fostered and developed? How can positive leadership be used to help individuals and organisations to thrive?
This subject will draw on a range of reflective learning, experiential learning, and skill-building techniques and exercises to enable students to develop a tool-kit to foster flourishing over the course of their education and career.
Intended learning outcomes
Students will:
- Develop a tool-kit they can draw from to promote positive decisions in choosing their career and managing their career, as well as in leading others.
- Understand how positive psychology can underpin education and career choices.
- Understand and apply positive leadership practices and frameworks.
- Criticaly evaluate positive leadership methods and provide constructive feedback about the learning and development process.
- Explore how positive approaches can be applied to foster ongoing learning, education, and development.
- Analyse and apply key research and frameworks from a variety of disciplines, with a key focus on the field of positive organisational behaviour.
Generic skills
- Critical and creative thinking skills will be fostered by exposure to new approaches to leadership in educational and organisational contexts.
- Reflective and narrative skills will be furthered through introspective techniques, experiential learning and storytelling in both assignment work and in-class exercises.
- Analytical and cognitive skills will be advanced through exposure to case studies, theoretical frameworks and research across disciplines.
- Meaningful applications of theory will be encouraged by exposure to situations in which principles and frameworks of positive psychology can be applied to foster ongoing education and career development.
- Written and oral communication skills will be developed through assignment work and in-class participation.
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Basic knowledge of research processes.
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: 27 April 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- 1500-word analysis of positive leadership in practice. Due mid-semester, 35%
- 2500-word mentor exercise and reflection journal. Due end of semester, 65%
This subject has a minimum hurdle requirement of 80% attendance at all tutorials, seminars and workshops.
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2017
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Readings will be posted on 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: 27 April 2024