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MBA Capstone (BUSA90533)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)

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The purpose of this final subject at Melbourne Business School is to help you reflect upon your learning and MBA experience and as you leave, to prepare you for what lies ahead. The capstone subject will revisit and extend learnings from the first part of your MBA, and will help you consolidate some of the lessons from your journey. In this subject, we will focus on the broader context in which your career will develop and will focus on three important concepts: aspirations, commitments, and transitions. The course will serve as an opportunity to engage in extensive personal reflection and will provide you with tools to help navigate your career as it unfolds over the coming years.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

  • Recognise that choices around personal aspirations and commitments are interdependent and have consequences for career trajectories
  • Communicate with others about your professional aspirations and commitments
  • Improve your ability to proactively experiment and to take action to make better career (and life) transitions
  • Integrate peer advice more fully into charting one's professional career
  • Develop your own framework for assessing whether the professional development choices you are making are furthering your notion of a "good life"
  • Develop tools for both near term and long‐term personal and career development

Generic skills

  • Critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Communication skills
  • Interpersonal and networking skills
  • Team working skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Effective evidence-based decision-making skills
  • Organisational skills
  • Commercial awareness and business acumen

Last updated: 31 January 2024