BU3060 - Professional Experience
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
Available to students enrolled in the BBus (Hospitality Management) only.
This subject is designed to integrate knowledge and skills developed throughout the degree in a practical workplace setting. The subject is suitable for students who are not already employed. Classroom learning is linked to a 250 hour professional placement that facilitates the development of generic workplace skills and application of course specific knowledge. A discrete and manageable placement project is negotiated between the student, workplace supervisor, and academic supervisor. Professional experience is usually undertaken individually, but there is provision for collaborative tasks where appropriate. Students may also begin identifying and collecting data for suitable areas of study should they decide to enrol in an honours year.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate a range of technical and social skills and progressively becoming aware of and involved in the wider implications of management functions;
- appreciate the complexity of formal and informal relationships in the workplace;
- observe the management process in terms of economic, socio-cultural, marketing and human resource aspects and develop and understanding of the relationship between various sectors of the business environment;
- demonstrate personal and social skills within the environment of a professional organisation.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
- The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
- The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
- The ability to manage future career and personal development;
- The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
- The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
- The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
- The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
- The ability to work individually and independently.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | BU2011 AND BU2012 AND BU2013 AND BU2014 AND BU2050 AND BU2060 AND BU3050 |
Availabilities | |
| Cairns, Limited, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 04-Apr-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching 03-Mar-2008 to 27-Jun-2008 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Josephine Pryce, Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross. |
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| Assessment: | other exams (50% - 90%); (10% - 50%). |
| Cairns, Limited, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 05-Sep-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching 04-Aug-2008 to 28-Nov-2008 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Josephine Pryce, Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross. |
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| Assessment: | other exams (50% - 90%); (10% - 50%). |
| Cairns, Limited, Study Period 6 | |
| Census Date 27-Jun-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching 16-Jun-2008 to 08-Aug-2008 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Josephine Pryce, Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross. |
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| Assessment: | other exams (50% - 90%); (10% - 50%). |
| Cairns, Limited, Study Period 11 | |
| Census Date 19-Dec-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching 01-Dec-2008 to 27-Feb-2009 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Josephine Pryce, Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross. |
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| Assessment: | other exams (50% - 90%); (10% - 50%). |
| Cairns, Limited, Study Period 7 | |
| Census Date 11-Jul-2008 | |
| Face to face teaching 30-Jun-2008 to 08-Aug-2008 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Josephine Pryce, Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross. |
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| Assessment: | other exams (50% - 90%); (10% - 50%). |
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.