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2020 unit information
Classes and seminars in Trimester 3, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of trimester.
Last updated: 5 October 2020
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online), CBD*Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online)Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online)
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ALW117, ALW217, EAD110
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 2-hour seminar per week
Online learning independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2-hour seminar equivalent
*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery
This unit focuses on developing flexible and transferable communication, writing and research skills for employability in a twenty-first century work environment. Students will explore ways of professionally representing themselves, organisations and community or social issues within the context of their own discipline-specific work requirements. They will use online techniques and tools and imaginative digital world workplace scenarios to prepare themselves for professional, organisational and online writing for specific purposes in workplace contexts.
These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit
At the completion of this unit, successful students can:
Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1
Demonstrate the creative use of resources, tools and technologies in developing a range of discipline-specific writing tasks
GLO1 Discipline knowledge and capabilities
ULO2
Apply relevant materials and research from a range of sources to a folio of workplace-oriented writing tasks
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship
ULO3
Write and redraft clearly, concisely and creatively within a deadline to a specified readership
GLO2: Communication
ULO4
Demonstrate working with others to solve a workplace-oriented task
GLO7: Teamwork
ULO5
Evaluate your own and the work of others
GLO4: Critical thinking
ULO6
Demonstrate use of technology for a range of purposes including working with others, communication and accessing sources of research
GLO3: Digital literacy
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment 1 (Individual) - Research report on social issue (discipline-specific)
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: AIX117 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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