CAREER 101 : Understanding Your Workplace

Arts

2024 Semester One (1243) (15 POINTS)

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 other activities external to your university study. Focusing on the company, community group or other entity that you are or have been active in, you will gain a more in-depth understanding of various aspects of the workplace. These include organisational structure, culture and diversity, social responsibility, and communication.

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 also choose to keep your organisation anonymous.

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. At the same time, it will develop and refine new skills and knowledge important to the workplace of today and the future.

Course Requirements

Prerequisite: 60 points passed Restriction: CAREER 200

Capabilities Developed in this Course

Capability 1: People and Place
Capability 3: Knowledge and Practice
Capability 4: Critical Thinking
Capability 5: Solution Seeking
Capability 6: Communication
Capability 7: Collaboration
Capability 8: Ethics and Professionalism
Graduate Profile: Bachelor of Arts

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Apply knowledge about organisations and the workplace to real world contexts. (Capability 3)
  2. Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify and propose solutions to business/organisational opportunities for growth and/or improvement. (Capability 4 and 5)
  3. Communicate, both written and verbally, in a manner appropriate in the modern workplace. (Capability 6)
  4. Reflect on the skills and knowledge developed through your experiences in extracurricular and work activities, in addition to your university studies. (Capability 3)
  5. Work collaboratively in a diverse team environment. (Capability 1, 7 and 8)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Coursework 100% Individual Coursework

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 by Auckland-based students is expected in the weekly lectures and workshops. The one-hour lectures will be recorded. However, the two-hour workshops will not be recorded.

The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable.

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.

Changes in 2024 will revolve around making the in-class discussions more collaborative and the guidance around independent research more robust. 

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 for potential plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct, 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.

Published on 31/10/2023 08:21 p.m.