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Expertise and Your Professional Career (EDUC30071)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Winter Term
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
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This subject provides insights into professional knowledge, learning and expertise that will enhance students’ development in their chosen professions. The subject explores meta-frameworks for learning in all professions by distinguishing between different forms of knowledge, the relationships these have to practice across a broad array of fields, and the implications this has for learning. The focus is on the structures of knowledge and the way knowledge is produced in professions generally, rather than the content of knowledge in specific professions. It asks students to consider whether learning in academic disciplines and professions is the same, or whether differences in the structures of knowledge and the nature of practice require different approaches to learning. It distinguishes between professions that have emerged in the last fifty years and those that have an older lineage and queries whether they are different, and if so, how they are different. The subject considers debates about the relationship between theory and practice in the development of expertise in work by comparing and contrasting those that emphasise process and experiential accounts of learning with those that emphasise the intrinsic role knowledge plays in the development of expertise. The implications for debates about professional education are considered and students are asked to contemplate the significance of these debates for their own future career development.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Debate theories about the structures of theoretical knowledge for professional practice and whether these can be distinguished from other forms of knowledge such as the academic disciplines on the one hand, and every day knowledge on the other
- Theorise about and debate the relationship between the emergence of professions, the development of professional knowledge and the relationship between professions and education
- Compare and contrast different theories about learning in the professions and the development of expertise and expert practice
- Consider the implications of debates about the nature of knowledge and professional learning for their own future career development
Generic skills
This subject should enable students to:
- be critical and creative thinkers, with an aptitude for continued self-directed learning
- examine critically, synthesise and evaluate knowledge across a broad range of disciplines
- initiate and implement constructive change in their communities, including professions and workplaces
- value different cultures
- be well-informed citizens able to contribute to their communities wherever they choose to live and work
- accept social and civic responsibilities
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
None. However it will be helpful for students to be far enough advanced in a course or profession to be able to reflect upon their initial experiences of professional formation.
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
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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An individual 5 minute presentation on the topic selected for the essay, based on work in progress
| Early in the teaching period | 15% |
An individual evaluation of a 15 minute group presentation on current challenges to a profession
| End of the teaching period | 15% |
An essay, focused on debates about knowledge, learning and expertise in the professions
| End of the assessment period | 70% |
A minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled tutorials, seminars and workshops. Hurdle requirement | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Dates & times
- Winter Term
Principal coordinator Chris Corbel Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 6 July 2020 Pre teaching requirements refer to LMS Teaching period 20 July 2020 to 24 July 2020 Last self-enrol date 8 July 2020 Census date 20 July 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 July 2020 Assessment period ends 7 August 2020 Winter Term contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
During the two-week pre-teaching period students will be required to read a set of articles for discussion during the teaching period.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Young, M., & Muller, J. (Eds.). (2014). Knowledge, expertise and the professions Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
This and other readings will be accessible through the LMS.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Minor Knowledge and Learning Breadth Track Knowing and Learning - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Links to additional information
- 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.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 11 April 2024