Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2012

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

Rationale

Design practice requires the understanding and adherence to a range of ethical, cultural, business and legal concerns and requirements. This unit focuses on the design disciplines, providing learning opportunities to both extend and consolidate the introduction to professional practice issues in the built environment professions presented earlier in the course. Teaching and learning takes place through a variety of structured activities: lectures, panels, role play, seminars, team workshops and online.

Aims

The aim of this unit is to provide you with the knowledge to understand and participate in a design practice as you transition from life as a university student to life as a beginning professional. In particular, the unit aims to provide an introduction to key issues in discourses about the design professions: the organisation and roles of the regulatory and professional bodies that govern the professions, the cultural and legal context for contemporary design practice, and the values and attitudes which govern professional practice. The importance of integrated scholarship and collaborative links with other professions will be highlighted. This should build your capacity and resilience to tackle issues relevant to the contemporary professional design practice with competence.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:

1. explain the nature of professional design organisations and the role that they play in supporting and providing guidance to the design professions
   
2. demonstrate links between your disciplinary expertise and a wider framework of the professions
   
3. develop a practice-based response that analyses the key factors affecting design practice, including Australian and Queensland law and statutory regulation
   
4. in preparation for your transition to professional practice, demonstrate an analytical and ethically grounded understanding of your learning capabilities
   
5. articulate graphically, orally, and in written form, the outcomes of your task-based research and development both as an individual and as a productive multi-disciplinary team member.

Content

Unit content includes issues of ethics, professionalism, relationship management and workplace resilience, design practice and the law, administrative and organisational management, safe design.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Teaching Mode: Hours per week: 3
Lecture: 1-1.5 hours/week
Tutorial/Seminars: 1.5 - 2 hrs/week

In this unit, learning will be facilitated through:

• lectures/podcasts and talks from experts and specialists
  
• in-class exercises and discussions
  
• a complex case study/scenario which forms the basis of a team response project

Assessment

QUT's Assessment Policy is located at MOPP c/5.1

Overview of Assessment:
Assessment tasks are designed so that you can demonstrate, from within the context of a complex assessment challenge, evidence of integrated learning and connections to the real world of your discipline. It also gives you opportunities for self assessment with regard to the set of understandings, skills, personal attributes that will make you more likely to be successful in your chosen career pathway/s.
Formative assessment is all about letting you know how you are progressing with your work in the unit and how your work can be improved. In DEB801, formative feedback will be offered by the tutors during the semester at key times to assist the development of your understanding and the completion of your assessment tasks. This will occur mostly through face-to-face discussions, workshops and tutorials.

Summative Assessment:
Summative assessment is item-based grading that has implications for your final unit result. When we assess your work summatively, we are focusing on the quality of the outcomes of your learning as represented in the work you present and submit for marking.

Assessment name: Examination (written)
Description: A multiple choice examination of critical evaluation of tasks completed, goals met and observations made during the first half of the unit. (Centrally Timetabled Exam).
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 4 & 5
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: CTE

Assessment name: Presentation
Description: Consultancy Awareness & Promotion Project - An assessable presentation about real world practice and promotion in a multi-disciplinary environment.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3 & 5
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group with Individual Component
Due date: Mid-semester

Assessment name: Project (applied)
Description: A discipline-specific written assignment.
Relates to objectives: 2, 3, 4 & 5
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of 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

No Set text
Specific papers and other resources will be available from either the Course Materials Database (CMD) the DEB801 Blackboard site, or the D Block Resource Centre.

Risk assessment statement

You will undertake lectures and tutorials in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit.

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: 09-Jul-2012