ED5853 - Career and Leisure Guidance and Counselling

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	National Priority Band
Administered by:

Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development)

This subject addresses the topics of careers and leisure in the broadest sense and includes studies of career education, career guidance, career counselling, along with work and non-work activities and transitions including career interruption, unemployment and retirement. To enable targeted study this subject offers streams in four age points; older adult, younger adult, adolescent, and childhood.

Learning Outcomes

• develop skills needed to provide career guidance, to engage in career counselling and to design and implement career education programs;
• understand a range of theoretical perspectives on career development, occupation choice and career decision-making;
• understand contemporary aspects of the global, national and local workforce relevant to career guidance;
• understand the place of non-work activities in peoples lives.

Prerequisites:

Undergraduate degree

Availabilities
, Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coord/Lect:	jc144303.
Assessment:	(30% - 50%); (30% - 70%).
, , Study Period 41
Census Date 22-Dec-2006
Non-standard start/end 20-Nov-2006 to 29-Jan-2007
Face to face teaching 20-Nov-2006 to 06-Jan-2007 (Class Teaching: 30/11/06 to 06/12/06)
Coord/Lect:	jc144303.
Assessment:	.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.