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Optimising Personal Performance (MUSI20228)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Solange Glasser: solange.glasser@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 - Online |
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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
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
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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Six online discussions of key concepts covered in lectures
| Throughout the teaching period | 30% |
Three minute video presentation on a recent performance experience. Include: i) personal introduction (20 seconds); ii) explanation of the recent experience, including why you have chosen it (40 seconds); iii) reflection on the experience and what you have learned from this experience and others about yourself (1 minute) and; iv) how you might further optimise your own personal practice.
| Second half of the teaching period | 20% |
Reflective commentary. Your reflective commentary should address two issues: i) an explanation of an issue or general area and why you have chosen it, and ii) a reflection on how the information gained from studying the issue/area is of specific interest to you and how you will use this information or approach to enhance your own future performance.
| During the assessment period | 50% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1 - Online
Coordinator Solange Glasser Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 48 hours, comprising 4 hours engaging in self-paced online activity per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
Solange Glasser: solange.glasser@unimelb.edu.au
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- 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.
- 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: 31 January 2024