CAREER 101 Understanding Your Workplace - Course Outlines

Course Prescription

Enables students to build on existing paid work or voluntary service external to their University studies while learning about the dynamics of cultures within professional or organisational settings. Students will research how their target organisation functions, will consider other forms of workplace environment and will demonstrate how their own activities contribute to personal and professional development.

Course Overview

The aim of the course is to enable you to gain academic credit by building on your experiences in paid work, voluntary service, or similar activities that you are already undertaking or have undertaken external to your university study. Focusing on the company, community group or other entity that you are or have been employed/active in, and taking the term ‘workplace’ in the widest possible sense, you will gain a more in-depth understanding of various aspects of the workplace, including structure, culture and diversity, ethics social responsibility and sustainability, as well as communication. You will also create a (hypothetical) new organisational goal and examine how it could be achieved. During this process, you will reflect on and analyse the skills you are developing both in your university studies and in the workplace/community to enhance your overall employability and work-readiness.

Your organisation may be a business/social enterprise, Iwi organisation, trust, community group, church group, charity, Government department, NGO, sports team, club or society, or a group with a strong representation of Māori, Pasifika, or international students. You may choose to keep your organisation anonymous (former example, noting you work at "an electronics retailer” rather than naming the electronics retailer).

Employers and recruiters continue to tell us how important it is that graduates enter the workforce with more than just job-specific skills and knowledge. Organisational awareness, communication skills, and the ability to solve open-ended problems are key capabilities employers seek in graduates. The goal of this course is to give you the opportunity to reflect on the skills and knowledge gained throughout your own extracurricular and work activities, as well as university studies, while at the same time developing and refining new skills and knowledge important to the workplace of today and the future.

Course Requirements

Prerequisite: 60 points passed Restriction: CAREER 200

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

Apply knowledge around organisational structure, culture and diversity, ethics, social responsibility and sustainability, as well as communication to real world contexts. (Capability 1.2 and 6.3)
Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify and propose solutions to business/organisational opportunities for growth and/or improvement. (Capability 1.3 and 3.2)
Communicate information and arguments, both in writing and verbally, in a manner that is appropriate in the modern workplace. (Capability 2.3 and 4.2)
Reflect on the skills and knowledge developed through your experiences in extracurricular and work activities, in addition to your university degree. (Capability 5.2)
Work collaboratively, including the ability to adapt to a diversity in personalities, cultures, and work styles. (Capability 4.3)

Assessments

Assessment Type	Percentage	Classification
Form: Organisational Information	5%	Individual Coursework
Proposal: Setting an Organisational Goal	20%	Individual Coursework
Presentation and Short Report	30%	Individual Coursework
Final Report	40%	Individual Coursework
Attendance and Participation	5%	Individual Coursework
5 types	100%

Next offered

Semester One 2022

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.

For this course, you can expect 12 hours of lectures, 24 hours of workshops, 55 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 55 hours of work on assignments and/or test preparation.

Delivery Mode

Campus Experience

Attendance is expected at scheduled activities including lectures and workshops to receive the 'participation' marks for the course. The one hour lectures will be available as recordings. However, the two hour workshops will not be available as recordings.

The course will include live online workshops for students studying remotely outside of New Zealand.
Attendance on campus is required for the exam, unless studying remotely outside of New Zealand.
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable.

This course is available for delivery to students studying remotely outside New Zealand in 2022.

Learning Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.

Class Representatives

Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Well-being always comes first
We all go through tough times during the semester, or see our friends struggling. There is lots of help out there - for more information, look at this Canvas page https://canvas.auckland.ac.nz/courses/33894, which has links to various support services in the University and the wider community.

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Learning Continuity

In the event of an unexpected disruption, we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and course assessment continues to meet the principles of the University’s assessment policy. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator/director, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the university website for information about how to proceed.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course students may be asked to submit coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. In exceptional circumstances changes to elements of this course may be necessary at short notice. Students enrolled in this course will be informed of any such changes and the reasons for them, as soon as possible, through Canvas.

Capability 1:	Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice
Capability 2:	Critical Thinking
Capability 3:	Solution Seeking
Capability 4:	Communication and Engagement
Capability 5:	Independence and Integrity
Capability 6:	Social and Environmental Responsibilities

CAREER 101 : Understanding Your Workplace

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2022 Semester One (1223) (15 POINTS)