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Developing Your Professional Practice A
Postgraduate | UNE-DYPP500A | 2022
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Pursue your interests and go deep into your niche, as you set out on a program of in-depth independent study. Collaborate with your nominated supervisor to choose a topic or project and create a proposal. Develop skills around research and judgement.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Developing Your Professional Practice A
About this subject
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- curate a compelling professional identity and philosophy, and demonstrate the ability to critically communicate this to both specialist and non-specialist audiences;
- develop and advocate for change in a professional context;
- engage with and demonstrate leadership in professional practice; and
- critically reflect on professional knowledge and practice.
- Topics are only available to enrolled students in the unit Moodle site.
This subject provides you with a self-paced learning experience in tandem with guided discussion with an assigned Academic Success Advisor. With their guidance, you will construct a personalised assessment structure, articulate your career goals, determine which skills you need to meet those goals and identify which additional subjects best equip you with those skills. The subject is designed to enhance your skills and knowledge as a professional for both current and future workplaces. It provides a framework within which your individual suite of elective subjects combine to demonstrate your unique professional persona. Your study culminates in the curation of your own portfolio to highlight your professional capabilities. An ideal way to present your skills to future employers.
Reflective Work: Negotiated with Unit Coordinator. Relates to Learning Outcomes 3, 4
Curated Professional Identity: Negotiated with Unit Coordinator. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4
The Pitch: Negotiated with Unit Coordinator. Relates to Learning Outcomes 2, 3, 4- Curated Professional Identity
- Reflective Work
- The Pitch
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
Others
Candidature in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice.
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Skype
- Other requirements -
Admission to Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateUNE-PRO-GCE