DYB301 Design Portfolio for Professional Practice
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| Unit code: | DYB301 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | Completion of 120 credit points of Design units (D% units) |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $996 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,356 |
| International unit fee | $4,668 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | DYB301 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 120 credit points of Design units (D% units) |
| Coordinator: | Melanie Finger | m.finger@qut.edu.au |
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, as well as excel at job interviews.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify opportunities for career self-management and define your career goals.
- Investigate and enact strategies to improve previous design projects for your portfolio.
- Utilise advanced Design approaches to deliver a professional design portfolio.
- Develop your professional networks.
- Develop job application and interview skills.
Content
Content may include aspects such as:
- Understanding your design purpose
- Designing your future / career self-management
- Advanced idea generation further developing your design ideas
- Exploring professionalism in practice , research careers and entrepreneurship
- Communicating your design identity through portfolio development
- Communicating with future employers and preparing for job interviews
Learning Approaches
Through an experiential approach to learning, and informed by industry experts and interactive learning materials, opportunities for graduate career success will be enhanced.
Students will be able to define their goal and complete their portfolio, learning interview techniques to best position themselves for career success.
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 and interview devlopment.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Design Purpose
You are required to propose your Design Career plans and present a Designer Impact Statement in an online interview with your tutor.
Assessment: Design Portfolio
You will be required to develop a portfolio of your Design work to a specified length for both online and PDF viewing.
This assignment is eligible for the 48 hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Design Interview
You will showcase your Design portfolio in a formal interview and provide supporting information.
The supporting information is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
- For general security, safety and wellbeing, students should review HiQ Safety and security
- Access to KG, Z10 or GP, J Block workshops requires completion of a Workshops safety induction
- Access to studios in the Creative Industries Precinct requires completion of a KG studios induction
- Student projects that may involve medium or high risk, or off campus projects, require a formal risk assessment
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
- Demonstrate theoretical and technical design knowledge, synthesising methods and theories of design in dynamic and evolving contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, Design Portfolio - Evaluate and translate conceptual and critical design methodologies and tools and transfer to new and complex challenges.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Portfolio - Demonstrate technical proficiencies to undertake rigorous and iterative design experimentation that considers participatory and co-creation design processes.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Design Portfolio - 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 Portfolio - Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Design Portfolio - 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, ULO5, Design Purpose, Design Portfolio, Design Interview - Identify and challenge biases and demonstrate respect for personal and professional integrity, and cultural and social differences.
Relates to: ULO5, Design Portfolio, Design Interview
DE45 Bachelor of Design - International
- Demonstrate theoretical and technical design knowledge, synthesising methods and theories of design in dynamic and evolving contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, Design Portfolio - Evaluate and translate conceptual and critical design methodologies and tools and transfer to new and complex challenges.
Relates to: ULO3, Design Portfolio - Demonstrate technical proficiencies to undertake rigorous and iterative design experimentation that considers participatory and co-creation design processes.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Design Portfolio - 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 Portfolio - Employ iterative approaches for open, collaborative and experimental design solutions using an entrepreneurial mindset.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Design Portfolio - 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, ULO5, Design Purpose, Design Portfolio, Design Interview - Identify and challenge biases and demonstrate respect for personal and professional integrity, and cultural and social differences.
Relates to: ULO5, Design Portfolio, Design Interview
DV43 Bachelor of Design
- 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