School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Personal and Professional Planning
  • Unit Code

    SAH3100
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Joo Ho JUNG

Description

This unit prepares students for their graduate career by supporting them to develop a personal brand and present their skills for future employment. They will enhance their ePortfolios with content relevant to their career plan. Students will explore connections between tertiary education and future careers in a friendly and open workshop environment, and will enjoy the benefit of lectures from a wide range of industry professionals in arts, communications, and humanities.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assess and relate local, indigenous, and global perspectives in the development of personal branding.
  2. Strategise a job search, including incorporation of relevant career artefacts into the Career Plan, using traditional and professional online tools.
  3. Create and communicate a personal brand by means of an online digital portfolio.
  4. Practice a consolidation of higher-level applied communication, collaboration and networking skills.
  5. Articulate their professional identity by reflecting on learning experiences and feedback.

Unit Content

  1. Employability and communicating the skills and values you offer.
  2. Developing and maintaining a portfolio for personal, professional and assessment purposes.
  3. Understanding the dynamics of working with other people.
  4. Engaging in career networking.
  5. Writing for external stakeholders and professional applications.
  6. Establishing a small business and entrepreneurism.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The unit is designed to explore a wide range of strategies and skills to equip students to be future employment ready. The unit involves a blend of learning experiences including interactive presentations and small group discussions. Tutorials provide students with the opportunity to further discuss and apply the concepts covered in the unit. Class activities focus on dynamic and industry simulated experiences to develop communication and presentation skills. Online students: An electronic version of the on-campus lecture is available for students, in addition to support materials specifically for the online mode. Students are required complete set of readings and participate in interactive online discussions to demonstrate their learning outcomes in the unit.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCareer plan40%
ProjectePortfolio and pitch60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCareer plan40%
ProjectePortfolio and pitch60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Personal and Professional Planning
  • Unit Code

    SAH3100
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Laura GLITSOS

Description

This unit prepares students for their graduate career by supporting them to develop a personal brand and present their skills for future employment. They will enhance their ePortfolios with content relevant to their career plan. Students will explore connections between tertiary education and future careers in a friendly and open workshop environment, and will enjoy the benefit of lectures from a wide range of industry professionals in arts, communications, and humanities.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded {CCA3111}

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assess and relate local, indigenous, and global perspectives in the development of personal branding.
  2. Strategise a job search, including incorporation of relevant career artefacts into the Career Plan, using traditional and professional online tools.
  3. Create and communicate a personal brand by means of an online digital portfolio.
  4. Practice a consolidation of higher-level applied communication, collaboration and networking skills.
  5. Articulate their professional identity by reflecting on learning experiences and feedback.

Unit Content

  1. Employability and communicating the skills and values you offer.
  2. Developing and maintaining a portfolio for personal, professional and assessment purposes.
  3. Understanding the dynamics of working with other people.
  4. Engaging in career networking.
  5. Writing for external stakeholders and professional applications.
  6. Establishing a small business and entrepreneurism.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The unit is designed to explore a wide range of strategies and skills to equip students to be future employment ready. The unit involves a blend of learning experiences including interactive presentations and small group discussions. Tutorials provide students with the opportunity to further discuss and apply the concepts covered in the unit. Class activities focus on dynamic and industry simulated experiences to develop communication and presentation skills. Online students: An electronic version of the on-campus lecture is available for students, in addition to support materials specifically for the online mode. Students are required complete set of readings and participate in interactive online discussions to demonstrate their learning outcomes in the unit.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCareer plan40%
ProjectePortfolio and pitch60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCareer plan40%
ProjectePortfolio and pitch60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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