Course Coordinator:Lynlea Small (lsmall1@usc.edu.au) School:School of Business and Creative Industries
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
In this Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course you can: choose to will undertake an individual research project which may also act as a pathway to the Honours program; undertake a self-directed entrepreneurship project; or undertake an industry-based project in collaboration with an interdisciplinary student team that showcases your knowledge and skills. This project (which must be approved by the course coordinator) will enable you to develop skills of project development, coordination and negotiation. You will demonstrate disciplinary skills that represent ethical practice and the culmination of your learning in your program or major.
Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
Blended learning | |||
Learning materials – Interactive online learning activities. | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Scheduled face to face workshops or mentor sessions. | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
Online | |||
Learning materials – Interactive online learning activities. | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Scheduled online workshops or mentor sessions. | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
Industry Project Stream: Project Management, Project Delivery, Collaboration, Risk Assessments, Effective Design, Professional Communication, Intellectual Property Management. Self-directed Entrepreneurship Project: Commercialisation, Industry Processes and Partnerships, Sponsorship. Research Project Stream: Inter/disciplinary Research, Research Methods, Literature Review, Research Design, Group Work.
300 Level (Graduate)
12 units
Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
1 | Ethically apply creative project development, research, project management and inter/disciplinary skills. | Empowered |
2 | Critically evaluate industry models and use theoretical knowledge to develop and deploy strategies and research to address a problem or opportunity. | Creative and critical thinker |
3 | Communicate knowledge, concepts and creative ideas to various audiences and stakeholders. | Empowered |
4 | Integrate stakeholder perspectives in developing effective strategies to enhance project outcomes. |
Engaged Communication Collaboration Problem solving Organisation |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Successful completion of 192 units
Not applicable
CMN311, CMN312, CMN313, CMN316 or ENT311
Not applicable
Standard Grading (GRD)
High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
An opportunity exists in every workshop to produce and perform creative pieces individually and/or in small peer groups. However, in Week 4 students will received feedback from tutors.
Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
All | 1 | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | Individual or Group | 25% | 1500 words or equivalent |
Week 6 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All | 2 | Negotiated Assessment | Individual | 30% | 1200 words to 2500 words or equivalent |
Refer to Format | To be Negotiated |
All | 3 | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | Individual or Group | 45% | Scale or length of project to be negotiated with the Course Coordinator. |
Refer to Format | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All - Assessment Task 1:Project Plan | ||||||||||||||||
Goal: | You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team or liaise with your supervisor to develop a project plan. You will identify, discuss and negotiate a creative or entrepreneurial outcome, or research project designed to address an articulated problem, opportunity or gap. Key concepts and ethical practices of ideation, teamwork, self-reflection and creative planning are part of this work if working in a multidisciplinary team. |
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Product: | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | |||||||||||||||
Format: | A. The project plan must use specific skills and competencies of the team member across business and creative industries. The multidisciplinary team project plan must include a project overview, risk assessment, team profiles, schedule for completion, deliverables and a summary of how tasks and time will be managed. OR B. A research project plan must include a background review of literature, research problem, impact/significance, objectives and timeline. The assignment should be submitted in a written format via Canvas. The format can be negotiated with the Course Coordinator. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Organisation |
All - Assessment Task 2:Portfolio, Reflexive Journal, Literature Review, Annotated Bibliography or Handover Document | |||||||||||||||||||
Goal: | The Major Interdisciplinary Project is a complex group task and you are personally responsible for the success of your collaborative project. In this task, your work may be subject to peer evaluation as your work progresses. This task requires you to document, record and evidence your own work and contributions to the project. The goal of this task is to demonstrate ethical project management, collaboration and input. The research stream will require you to situate your project within existing academic knowledge through the development of a literature review. |
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Product: | Negotiated Assessment | ||||||||||||||||||
Format: | The project portfolio and report may take different forms and may use various media to document your contributions. You may also use project management software, charts, graphs or any other relevant format/tools negotiated with your Course Coordinator. Submission date to be negotiated individually. This task is being used for measuring assurance of learning towards Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. The following Program Competency will be assessed: PC 5: Community engagement with place and people |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving |
All - Assessment Task 3:Artefact or project outcome | |||||||||||||||||||
Goal: | The goal of this task is to present your final project outcome and demonstrate discipline specific expertise. |
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Product: | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | ||||||||||||||||||
Format: | The format of your presentation/portfolio will depend on your project and must be negotiated with the Course Coordinator and supervisor. As an individual, you will present or exhibit your project's final outcome to a designated audience. You will use relevant professional and/or academic presentation tools and should demonstrate effective communication. This may include a research proposal, exhibition, concert, conference, marketing campaign, product, or event. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving |
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
There are two streams that run under this course code (the industry stream and the research stream) and you must ensure that you are enrolled in the correct workshop for your intended stream. The industry stream is based on delivering projects made available by industry partners each semester. Available projects will differ from semester to semester. In this stream, you will be required to work in a group to deliver outcomes for the industry partner. You will need to nominate (from the list provided) your preferences for a project by week 2 of semester to complete the course. Following the first four weeks of timetabled workshops, you are expected to make yourself available for autonomous group peer work sessions in addition to your timetabled workshops. You may be required to attended seminars or additional timetabled and non-timetabled sessions throughout semester. You must therefore consider your availability on evenings and weekends as well as normal working hours. While some coursework may be deliverable online, in the case of performed works and physical artefacts you may be required to attend in-person development sessions. The research stream is only available to students with a GPA of 5.0 or higher. This stream is based on developing a research design proposal for an individual research project within one of your major areas. This stream is recommended for students considering studying Honours at the end of their degree. Following the first four weeks of timetabled workshops, you will be expected to undertake self-directed development of your research proposal. You will also be expected to make yourself available for regular non-timetabled catch ups with a discipline mentor.
Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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