DYB301 Design Portfolio for Professional Practice


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Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Unit code:DYB301
Credit points:12
Pre-requisite:Completion of 120 credit points of Design units (D% units)
Coordinator:Melanie Finger | m.finger@qut.edu.au
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Overview

This unit is a capstone professional practice experience - providing you with an opportunity to explore and define your design purpose and identity, foster career aspirations and expand your professional network. 

Through this unit you will develop your knowledge and expectations of professional practice and navigate career opportunities.

The unit will assist you as you transition from student to professional, translating what you have learned and experienced over the course of your degree to be able to professionally present your skills, knowledge and capabilities into a meaningful and purposeful portfolio.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

  1. Identify opportunities for career self-management and define your career goals.
  2. Investigate and enact strategies to undertake a design project.
  3. Utilise advanced Design approaches to deliver your design project.
  4. Develop a professional design portfolio.

Content

Content may include aspects such as:

  • Understanding your design purpose
  • Advanced idea generation as part of a design project
  • Designing your future / career self-management
  • Exploring professionalism in practice , research careers and entrepreneurship
  • Communicating your design identity through portfolio development

Learning Approaches

Through an experiential approach to learning, and informed by a series of key blended and online modules, opportunities for graduate career success will be enhanced. Where feasible, learning will be enhanced through coaching/mentoring opportunities.

Students will be able to define their goal and portfolio project to best position themselves for career success that includes opportunities for transdisciplinary collaboration.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Formative feedback will be given at key times during the semester, including during teaching sessions and collaborative peer feedback opportunities. Where feasible, formative feedback will also be facilitated through coaching/mentoring opportunities. Summative feedback will be provided through criteria sheets.

Assessment

Overview

Assessment for this unit involves both formal and informal components. Through an experiential approach to learning, the assessment facilities opportunities to build purposeful career self-management capabilities, alongside career enhancing aspects including portfolio development. Summative assessment will be based on a grade of Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

Unit Grading Scheme

S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Design Purpose

You are required to propose your Design Career plans and choose a project that will best serve your career goal. (Full details provided in Assessment Document)

Weight: 0
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): Week 3
Related Unit learning outcomes: 1, 2

Assessment: Design Project

You will be required to develop and enact your Design Project outlined in Assessment One with feedback and support. 

Weight: 0
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): Week 10
Related Unit learning outcomes: 2, 3

Assessment: Design Portfolio

You will showcase your Design project output through a professional portfolio, that includes a Design Impact Statement.  

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Weight: 0
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): Week 14
Related Unit learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Requirements to Study

Requirements

All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online. Additional safety inductions may be required for this unit. 

Costs

Consumable costs, typical of the preparation and presentation of design project work in particular a portfolio may be incurred in accordance with the course costs.

Resources

There is no set text for this unit.

Further readings and resource materials will be indicated on unit Canvas site.

A list of the required and recommended readings for this unit will be made available to students at the start of the semester. Other resource materials will be made available as appropriate through the unit Canvas site at http://Canvas.qut.edu.au, through the Library or at the QUT GP Bookshop.

Risk Assessment Statement

For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.

Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.

Further information can be found on the unit Canvas site. 

Course Learning Outcomes

This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.

DE43 Bachelor of Design

  1. Demonstrate theoretical and technical design knowledge, synthesising methods and theories of design in dynamic and evolving contexts.
    Relates to: ULO2, Design Purpose, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  2. Evaluate and translate conceptual and critical design methodologies and tools and transfer to new and complex challenges.
    Relates to: ULO3, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  3. Demonstrate technical proficiencies to undertake rigorous and iterative design experimentation that considers participatory and co-creation design processes.
    Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Design Purpose, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  4. Communicate coherently, independently and/or collaboratively using a range of media to convey and share design knowledge and ideas to diverse audiences in a range of contexts.
    Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  5. Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
    Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Design Purpose, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  6. Exercise self reflection, resilience, adaptability and self-direction and leverage failure in order to unlock new ideas, approaches, and ways of doing and knowing.
    Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Design Purpose, Design Portfolio

DE45 Bachelor of Design - International

  1. Demonstrate theoretical and technical design knowledge, synthesising methods and theories of design in dynamic and evolving contexts.
    Relates to: ULO2, Design Purpose, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  2. Evaluate and translate conceptual and critical design methodologies and tools and transfer to new and complex challenges.
    Relates to: ULO3, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  3. Demonstrate technical proficiencies to undertake rigorous and iterative design experimentation that considers participatory and co-creation design processes.
    Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Design Purpose, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  4. Communicate coherently, independently and/or collaboratively using a range of media to convey and share design knowledge and ideas to diverse audiences in a range of contexts.
    Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  5. Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
    Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Design Purpose, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  6. Exercise self reflection, resilience, adaptability and self-direction and leverage failure in order to unlock new ideas, approaches, and ways of doing and knowing.
    Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Design Purpose, Design Portfolio

DV43 Bachelor of Design

  1. Demonstrate theoretical and technical design knowledge, including an advanced understanding of vegetation and systems, synthesising methods and theories of design in dynamic and evolving contexts.
    Relates to: ULO2, Design Purpose, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  2. Evaluate and translate conceptual and critical design methodologies and tools and transfer to new and complex challenges.
    Relates to: ULO3, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  3. Demonstrate technical proficiencies and advanced research skills and understanding to undertake rigorous and iterative design experimentation that considers participatory and co-creation design processes.
    Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Design Purpose, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  4. Communicate coherently, independently and/or collaboratively using a range of media to convey and share design knowledge and ideas to diverse audiences in a range of contexts.
    Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  5. Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
    Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Design Purpose, Design Project, Design Portfolio
  6. Exercise self reflection, resilience, adaptability and self-direction and leverage failure in order to unlock new ideas, approaches, and ways of doing and knowing.
    Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Design Purpose, Design Portfolio