ED5865 - Career Development Portfolio

Credit points:	06
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Education

Available only to students enrolled in the Graduate Certificate of Career Development.

This subject provides students with a working understanding of the Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners. Students will address key practices required to maintain high quality professional standards including career development theory, the labour market, ethical practice, catering for diversity, and maintaining up-to-date information and resource management.

Learning Outcomes

• understand the ethical standards that guide the work of career development practitioners and be able to apply these to diverse populations;
• become critically aware of the theoretical base that underpins and is used to inform the work of career development practitioners and how it applies to the labour market;
• ability to develop systematic, efficient, effective and up- to-date information and resource management skills for career development;
• ability to address the practices required to maintain professional standards in the work of career development practitioner.

Graduate Qualities

• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies.

Availabilities
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Paul Pagliano.
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU
Assessment:	satisfactory completion of a career development portfolio.
JCU Singapore, Limited, Study Period 52
Census Date 18-Jul-2013
Face to face teaching (Mandatory attendance block week: 24 to 30 June 2013; and Mondays 8, 15, 22, 29 July; 5, 12, 19 August; and Tuesday 20 August 2013)
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Paul Pagliano
Lecturer:	Mr Timothy Hsi.
Assessment:	satisfactory completion of a career development portfolio.

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.