WORK300/500 Professional Skills Development in the School of Arts
What is WORK300/500?
WORK300/500 Professional Skills Development enables enrolled students to apply their academic knowledge in a workplace context, to reflect and report on the experience, thus increasing their level of career readiness.
More information about this unit, how to enrol and how to organise a placement is available from Student Assist and the Work Ready Blog - http://blog.une.edu.au/workready/.
Assessment
The form of assessment tasks will be determined in consultation with your academic supervisors.
Assessment tasks assigned to students enrolled in WORK 300/500 are negotiable to some extent; that is, these tasks can be modelled to suit the experience the student can expect to gain through a particular work placement. Usually, your supervisor will initially suggest the number and form of the assessment tasks; the final details, including date of submission and weighting, can then be negotiated (although there are limits regarding the choices available – this is a 6 credit point unit, and so there are minimum requirements in academic terms concerning word length and marking criteria).
We have provided here three (3) examples of such assessment tasks (click on the hyperlink provided); please note the variation between two and three assessment tasks (three assessment tasks is the more typical number), and also note that while these are guiding examples, such tasks are fairly typical of what students can expect in this unit.
Example 1: WORK 300 Placement: ABC Local Radio – New England / Northwest
Example 2: WORK 300 Placement: The Armidale Express
Example 3: New England North West Regional Development Board Food and Wine project
Supervision and Further Information
To discuss academic supervision from the School of Arts, please contact
Dr Stephen Harris
WORK300 Coordinator
School of Arts
t: 02 6773 2964
e: sharris9@une.edu.au
or
Professor Dugald Williamson
School of Arts
t: 02 6773 2036
e: dwillia7@une.edu.au