Units

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Sample subject outline - 13 Week Teaching Period - 1 2012

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

Rationale

As an undergraduate student you need to acquire an understanding of the vast and diverse nature of the industry you will be working in, to plan for a successful career. This unit will provide you with a career roadmap to understand the diversity of technical and non-technical skills required to be successful in the ICT Industry. It is important that you recognise and prepare for the challenges of working in this rapidly evolving discipline and its relationship with other disciplines and the consequences of this. This requires the capability to manage a plethora of complex issues around you and hence the need to build generic skills such as: the ability to work individually as well as collaboratively in a creative and ethical manner; essential information literacy skills to efficiently retrieve, use, and store information to keep up with the pace of the discipline; and overall self and project management skills

Aims

This unit aims to develop your awareness of the career possibilities in the ICT industry and to equip you with some of the essential skills required of an ICT professional. The unit helps you to derive a roadmap for your career; to enable you to identify the qualities, skills and interests you need to possess, to plan your career path. The unit will also introduce you to the inter-disciplinary nature of ICT careers.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you would have:

1. A broad understanding of the ICT industry and the diverse nature of the career options in this and other disciplines (GC1, GC4).


2. An introductory understanding of project management skills (in particular time management) and understand how to apply them to your undergraduate degree (GC1, GC4, GC7).


3. Skills to participate effectively both as an individual and as a collaborative team member of a project (GC3, GC5, CG7).


4. An understanding and appreciation of the ethical issues pertinent to the profession (GC6).


5. Communicate effectively and professionally in written and oral form, including the retrieval and correct use of appropriate and relevant sources of information (GC3, GC4).

Key: Graduate Capabilities
GC1 - Knowledge and Skills
GC2 - Critical and Creative Thinking
GC3 - Communication
GC4 - Lifelong Learning
GC5 - Independence and Collaboration
GC6 - Social and Ethical Responsibility
GC7 - Leadership and Change

Content

This unit introduces you to the diverse options in the ICT discipline and its relationship with other disciplines. Using a focal topic assignment for a hypothetical client company, you will acquire the skills and knowledge required to participate as an individual and as an effective team member, learning how to critically reflect upon information to ensure you acquire high quality resources to utilise in your report and presentation. You will also be introduced to professional ethical issues and project management.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

The required theory and concepts for this unit are presented in one hour lectures, specifically scheduled to provide relevant information. Weekly workshops and practical classes will provide opportunities for you to apply the knowledge you have gained and develop your skills. A variety of online learning tools (i.e. E-Portfolio) will be used.

Tutorials:

Tutorials commence in week 2 (covering the previous week's work).

The basic understanding provided in lectures and workshops will be developed through the use of tutorials. To achieve the objectives of the unit it is essential that you complete the assigned tutorial work prior to attendance at the tutorial in the following week.
On a weekly basis, tutorial work is based on lecture material and requires you to work through a series of questions and problems.

Tutors will work through selected questions from the set tutorial work and deal with any problems arising from that material.

In preparation for the tutorial you are required to have completed all the weekly tutorial work, including the practical questions prior to attendance at these tutorials. The practical tutorial questions are designed to further reinforce the work covered in the lecture and the workshop, to show how various issues in the lecture material fit together, and to give students the opportunity to see "how" problems are worked, and discuss with tutors "why" something is done a certain way. Attendance at tutorials is essential to your success in this unit.

Proper attention to the teaching and learning strategies should enable students to meet the assessment requirements of the unit. You will be assessed on your developing knowledge, understanding and skills using a range of inter-related assessment methods.

Late Assignment Policy

Students will be penalised for the late submission of assignments. Refer to the Diploma Course Guide for details.

Review of Grades or Academic Rulings
Late Assignment Policy

Students will be penalised for the late submission of assignments.

Academic Dishonesty

Refer to the Diploma Course Guide for details.

Review of Grades or Academic Rulings

For rules on how to apply for a review of grade, refer to the Diploma Course Guide.

Consultation

The lecturer will be available for consultation from Week 2. Times will be advised in class and will also be displayed in a schedule on the noticeboard, on consultation room doors and on the BSD110 Blackboard site under Announcements section.

Exam Timetable

The exam timetable will be displayed on the Noticeboard on level 3 by Week 11 of the semester.

Assessment

You will submit your written assessments through the assignment box and upload the files to the IND103 Blackboard site. You are expected to work on the assignments independently, but you can ask for assistance from the teaching staff.You can obtain feedback on your progress throughout the unit through the following mechanisms:

• Ask the teaching staff for advice and assistance during lectures and workshop sessions


• Your major assignments will be returned to you with comments on your progress


• Consultation hours are available to clarify the contents of the assignment and to provide constructive feedback

Assessment name: Portfolio
Description: Accumulation of artefacts collected throughout the learnings completed in the semester.
Relates to objectives: 1,2, 3, 4,5
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Throughout Semester

Assessment name: Assignment
Description: A team agreement outlining principles and rules for participation of team members. (10%)
A written report which presents findings on an exclusive focal topic. (30%)
An oral presentation by each team which presents and promotes the findings of the report. (20%)
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: From Weeks 4 - 13

Academic Honesty

Academic honesty means that you are expected to exhibit honesty and act responsibly when undertaking assessment. Any action or practice on your part which would defeat the purposes of assessment is regarded as academic dishonesty. The penalties for academic dishonesty are provided in the Student Rules. For more information you should consult the QUT Library resources for avoiding plagiarism.

Resource materials

No extraordinary charges or costs are associated with the requirements for this unit.

Required text:
There is no set text for this unit. Required readings (and activities) are listed in the Blackboard site and will be accessible via a link to the Course Materials Database (CMD).

Risk assessment statement

There are no unusual health or safety risks associated with this 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: 27-Jan-2012