Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

It is important that Creative Industries students gain real industry-based experience in order to link university study with professional practice. Students need to equip themselves not only with skills and discipline knowledge but also with understandings and experience in order that they may function and flourish when they enter the workplace. This unit will focus on facilitating the transferance of skills into the workplace via participation, observation and reflection, focusing on the relationships between academic and professional knowledge. This advanced-level unit is offered during the final year of an undergraduate degree course at which time students are able to apply appropriate, transferable skills to a workplace or professional context.
Note: For DE40 students, this advanced-level unit is the first in a series of four units comprising the Work Integrated Learning (WIL) minor in which each unit has a specific focus and objective in respect to understanding and reflecting on the work place. Work Integrated Learning 1 sets up the foundation for the minor through key concepts in professional practice.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Internships may be undertaken with an established commercial business or as service to the community through a charitable or not-for-profit organisation. Work internships are broadly defined as work within an organisation in a clearly defined role, work on a project as part of a multi-disciplinary team or work within a freelance environment. The key characteristic of a work internship is the involvement of a third party (Industry Partner), who contributes to the evaluation of your internship. Internship postions are normally unpaid. Where you accept an offer of a paid position, you will not be covered by QUT insurance. You are required to complete between 80 and 100 hours in an internship.

1.
• All students are responsible for finding their industry internship
Take the necessary preparatory steps in the weeks prior to the Semester. The Transitions team and academic supervisors provide limited assistance.

2.
• You may not use an existing employment position as an Internship
If remaining in the same employment position, you must undertake substantially new duties. The Industry Partner must email your academic supervisor an outline of how your new role differs from the existing position.

3.
• View selected internship positions on the CI Transitions Hub:
http://tiny.cc/CITransitionsHub

4.
• If unable to secure an internship by Week 4
, you must seek advice from the Unit Coordinator with the likelihood of withdrawing from the unit.


• BCI students may only undertake an internship in an area relevant to their CI major, CI co-major or CI second major
.

Aims

This unit aims to provide you with:

• Experience in applying discipline knowledge and skills in the context of professional practice in order to strengthen discipline-specific learning and specialisation.


• An understanding of professional communication protocols, professional conduct and ethical considerations in workplace


• A critical understanding of the role of reflection on learning and self-evaluation in professional environments


• Analytical processes relevant to practice and work-integrated learning

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:

1.Identify and implement relevant discipline knowledge, concepts, skills and practices in an internship role
2.Utilise relevant professional/practice-based approaches to gain knowledge and effictively communicate in the workplace
3.Effectively communicate in organisational and professional settings, while working independently and collaboratively
4.Critically reflect on and evaluate your professional practice, such as ethics and relevant codes of conduct, through oral, written and visual media

Content

This unit addresses content such as:

• Developing a CV, covering letter and portfolio


• Finding and applying for a Internship


• How to prepare a proposal including aims and objectives, timelines and workplace's Occupational Health and Safety policies


• Professional identity and conduct in the work place, workplace health and safety, intellectual property


• How to observe and reflect on your workplace experience


• Responding to ethical issues arising in the workplace


• Analysing and evaluating the work internship experience


• Incorporating relevant course theories and readings


• Reviewing and presenting internship experiences to peers and Industry Partners

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Onsite fieldwork participating in a Creative Industries Workplace. Participation as a intern in the activities and workflow of that work setting. Reflection, analysis and evaluation of the worksite.

In this unit, the following approaches are employed to support your learning:

• Academic support (Transtions Coordinator and Academic Supervisors)


• Liaison with Industry Partner supervisor and academic supervisor to maintain relationship and ensure appropriate internship is identified


• Self-assessment and reflective practice (on-line blog, critical review)


• Reflective assessment based on actual experience and observation

Assessment is designed to address multiple aspects of professional practice, the variety of internships undertaken across the Faculty and the breadth of discipline-specific experiences.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information click on the Unit Details button on the Blackboard site for this unit.

Grading Scale - You will be awarded a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory final grade.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Description: Half way through the internship (45 completed hours) schedule a meeting with your Industry Partner to discuss your performance. You may use the end-of-Semester Industry Partner Evaluation (IPE) form provided as a guide. The Industry Partner is not required to complete the feedback form at this stage. In addition, all Summative assessment items provide for succinct feedback to students on their progress.
Learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4
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SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Summative assessment will be based on a grade of Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. Summative assessment comprises the following three items. In order to pass the unit you must complete all items at a Satisfactory level.

Please note that for Assessment item 3 you are required to progressively collect evidence of your reflection and learning in the workplace, which may include actual examples of work and/or descriptions of work processes.

Assessment name: Preparation for Internship
Description: Completion of necessary documentation before you commence your internship, including a CV, a cover letter and the aims of your proposed internship role. Additionally, you will complete an online career module and submit a certificate of completion.

* Assessment 1 includes completing the necessary insurance cover information. Therefore, you may not begin your internship until you have completed Assessment 1 and it has been marked and approved by your academic supervisor. Any work hours undertaken by you prior to successful completion of this assessment item will not be credited towards the required 80-100 hours of the internship.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 4
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Early Semester

Assessment name: Industry Partner Evaluation
Description: (Formative and Summative)
Evaluation by the Industry Partner of your performance and learning in the workplace.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4
Internal or external: External
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End Semester

Assessment name: Critical Review
Description: (Formative and Summative)
Includes portfolio and oral presentation.
You will critically reflect on your learning during the internship and upon completion of the internship present the outcomes of your evaluation in the following ways:
1. Critical and Reflective Journal
2. Oral presentation and portfolio

Notes: The Reflective Journal must show evidence of reflective practice methodologies and critical analysis. The portfolio must demonstrate an understanding of the relevant industry processes as they relate to your internship role and show evidence of your application of course-acquired knowledge and skills. You must present your work in an appropriate discipline-based format.

School of Design students must choose ONE supplied focus topic in this assessment item.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 4
Internal or external: External
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Required readings: Required readings for this unit will cover management styles, communication at work, reflective practice, professional ethics and workplace issues and will be compiled and made available for download from the Course Materials Database.

Gardner, H., Csikszentmihalyi, M., Damon, W.. (2001). The Conditions of Good Work - chapter 2 in Gardner, H., Csikszentmihalyi, M., Damon, W, Good work : when excellence and ethics meet, New York: Basic Books, pp.15-36.

Grace, Damian and Cohen, Stephen.. (1998). Chapter 1 : Ethical Reasoning in Business in Grace, Damian and Cohen, Stephen, Business ethics : Australian problems and cases, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp.1-36.

Hutton, Miriam. (1989). Learning from Action: A Conceptual Framework in Weil, S. W., McGill, I. (Editors), Making sense of experiential learning : diversity in theory and practice, Milton Keynes: The Society for Research into Higher Education and OUP, pp.50-59.

Locker Kitty. (1997). Job interviews, follow up letters and calls, and job offers in Locker Kitty, Business and administrative communication, Boston Mass: Irwin McGraw Hill, pp.554-575.

Boud, David. (2001).Using journal writing to enhance reflective practice New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, (90), 9-18.

Smith, Elizabeth A. (2001). The role of tacit and explicit knowledge in the workplace Journal of Knowledge Management, 5 (4), 311-321.

Recommended readings: As this is an advanced-level final year unit, you are required to identify and draw on relevant literature and examples of practice from your discipline.

Risk assessment statement

Students must submit the Proposal, make themselves aware of and abide by the health and safety requirements of the workplace and are expected to undergo any induction or other training provided in the workplace for employees or visitors to the workplace as appropriate.

Students should address intellectual property and conflict of interest considerations with the prospective industry partner before commencement of the work internship.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 18-Dec-2012