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Prof Development & Application I (BUSA90550)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Overview
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This subject is designed to help students develop the skills and knowledge required to effectively manage the early stages of their career. This subject runs across the roughly the first half of the full-time course and identifies specific needs of each individual student and then provides ongoing support, training, and opportunities to practice and perfect these skills.
Assessment of the subject includes a quiz on revisionary material, the writing of CVs, group work and group presentations as well as an essay involving ethical concerns within analytics.
The program focuses on four areas:
- Revisionary material: Rudimentary technical knowledge for the course.
- Communication skills: These skills include effective presentations, verbal communication, written communication, public speaking, and communicating technical material to non-technical audiences.
- Career development skills: These skills include case practice, interview skills, CV writing, networking, and business etiquette.
- Team skills: These skills include managing conflict, cultural awareness, giving and receiving feedback, and resilience.
These areas are the preparation for industry placement occurring in Professional Development II
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Assess their grasp of the fundamental technical knowledge at the beginning of the course.
- Appreciate the importance of communication and team skills in career success
- Have identified communication, career development, and team skills that need improvement.
- Work effectively in teams
- Create an effective CV & Address case-based interviews
- Identify ethical issues & concerns in the acquisition, retrieval, storage, and analysis of data & appreciate the importance of ethical practice and apply it in a workplace context.
Generic skills
- Critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal and networking skills
- Team working skills
- Effective evidence-based decision-making skills
- Organisational skills
- Commercial awareness and business acumen
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Non-allowed subjects
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Cover letter and CV
| First half of the teaching period | 20% |
Group presentation - business case
| First half of the teaching period | 10% |
Quiz
| First half of the teaching period | 50% |
Individual report
| First half of the teaching period | 20% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- January
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 100 hours Teaching period 23 January 2023 to 21 July 2023 Last self-enrol date 28 February 2023 Census date 3 March 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 May 2023 Assessment period ends 21 July 2023
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024