Professional Practice (Industry and Creative Projects) PG (11872.1)

In this unit students will further develop their abilities as agile professionals with transferable employability skills and critical and creative abilities to work across industries and sectors. They will integrate disciplinary knowledge with the professional skills required in their industry through individual or cross-disciplinary team projects, industry collaborations or entrepreneurial activities, and further develop their sense of professional identity and purpose.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Reflect on and evaluate the standards of performance and practice expected in their profession, and how professional skills and knowledge align with these expectations;
2. Apply and critique their academic learning in the development and production of a range of artefacts or strategic solutions to meet real industry needs;
3. Solve problems and make appropriate and ethical decisions in professional contexts using information, professional and disciplinary knowledge and consideration of different perspectives; and
4. Acquire, articulate and apply a range of transferable employability skills.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - use Indigenous histories and traditional ecological knowledge to develop and augment understanding of their discipline

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.