AWL100 - Your Future Direction
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Erin Hawley |
| Prerequisite: | Nil It is highly recommended that students complete 3 credit points of study, prior to enrolling in this unit |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | MWL101 |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities, plus 1 x 1-hour seminar per week with an additional 4 x 1-hour practical experiences (workshops) with guest presenters across the trimester. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities, plus 1 x 1-hour seminar per week (livestreamed and recorded) with an additional 4 x 1-hour practical experiences (workshops) with guest presenters across the trimester. |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
This unit is designed to help you make the most of your time at Deakin. It aims to empower you to make informed decisions about course pathways and career strategies that can support your personal values and professional aspirations, build your industry contacts and peer networks, and help you achieve the impact you want to make in the world – no matter where you currently are in your career journey. You will discover approaches that can help you set your goals for the future and identify the skills you will need to get there. In the process, you will learn how internships and other forms of experiential learning and community engagement can allow you to apply the concepts and principles from your studies to your professional and creative practice, helping to develop your discipline-specific expertise and employability skills as well as your sense of purpose and professional identity. You will also be introduced to digital tools that can help you evidence your personal and professional competencies and craft a compelling narrative about the contributions you want to make to the communities in which you live and work.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Identify key employability skills relevant to their chosen field of study and employ strategies to develop and evidence the advancement of these skills. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management |
| ULO2 | Critically review local, national and global industry trends and the impact on future work, and demonstrate an awareness of career pathways. | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management |
| ULO3 | Investigate professional development skills (e.g. awareness, planning, application, digital identity) in order to apply for or create work opportunities to progress their career. | GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management |
| ULO4 | Evaluate their own personal strengths, skills and attributes, and prepare and present a personalised professional development plan. | GLO2: Communication GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 – Online Quizzes | 2 x multiple choice quizzes | 20% | Information not yet available
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| Assessment 2 – Interview and Reflection | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Information not yet available |
| Assessment 3 – Professional Development Plan | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Information not yet available |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for AWL100 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.