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MBA Capstone (BUSA90533)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
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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
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Completion of 212.5 credit points in the Master of Business Administration course. This subject must be completed as the very last subject in the course
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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Individual asssignment
| Early in the teaching period | 25% |
Individual assignment
| During the teaching period | 25% |
Individual assignment
| During the teaching period | 25% |
Individual assignment
| End of the teaching period | 25% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 70 hours Pre teaching start date 7 February 2024 Pre teaching requirements Students are expected to complete approximately 5 hours of reading during the pre-teaching period to prepare for the subject Teaching period 9 February 2024 to 11 February 2024 Last self-enrol date 10 December 2023 Census date 12 February 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 February 2024 Assessment period ends 11 February 2024 - Winter Term
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 70 hours Pre teaching start date 29 June 2024 Pre teaching requirements Students are expected to complete approximately 15 hours of reading during the pre-teaching period to prepare for the subject Teaching period 6 July 2024 to 8 July 2024 Last self-enrol date 1 July 2024 Census date 8 July 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 8 July 2024 Assessment period ends 8 July 2024 - August
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 70 hours Pre teaching start date 16 August 2024 Pre teaching requirements Students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of reading to prepare for the subject during the pre-teaching period Teaching period 23 August 2024 to 25 August 2024 Last self-enrol date 16 August 2024 Census date 23 August 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 August 2024 Assessment period ends 25 August 2024
What do these dates mean
Visit this webpage to find out about these key dates, including how they impact on:
- 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