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Optimising Personal Performance (MUSI20228)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5Online
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Semester 1
Solange Glasser: solange.glasser@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject has been designed and developed for online delivery and assessment only.
This subject is focused on how to optimise one’s own personal performance. It critically examines psychological, sociological and scientific research related to expertise development and examines a range of embodied, and frequently tacit, everyday practices that enable progress in all aspects of human endeavour.
By highlighting both similarities and differences between various performance domains it aims to capture, understand, inspire and disrupt ways of thinking about one’s personal performance that cut across a wide array of domains, including the arts, business, medicine and science.
Attention is given to the various sub-skills of performance, especially the conditions that enhance expectations for future performance, influence personal autonomy, and facilitate attention focusing within various contexts.
Students will be encouraged to implement skills and strategies within their own domain-specific learning that can help them optimise their own personal performance and development.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- distinguish between the various forms of social, cognitive, affective, and behaviour that underpin conceptions for optimising performance;
- interpret literature to assess the similarities and differences between various performance domains regarding optimising personal performance;
- critically appraise the social, cognitive, affect, and behavioural processes that drive individuals to succeed at a higher level;
- evaluate how the factors that enhance performance (motivation, cognition, expectations, feedback, social-comparisons, self-modeling, task difficulty, conceptions of ability, extrinsic rewards, positive affect) relate, positively and negatively, to one's own performance abilities;
- apply knowledge gained in the subject to one's own enhanced development.
Last updated: 31 January 2024