SRM750 - Built Environment Professional Practice
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
|---|---|
| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Lana Van Galen |
| Cohort rule: | Students enrolled in S700 or S701 must enrol in campus mode |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | SRM470 and SRM591 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 2 hour class per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week. |
Note:This unit includes criteria that will be assessed for professional accreditation. | |
Content
This unit introduces knowledge of professional practise principles and explores the roles, functions, and interactions between different types of built environment professionals. This unit has an emphasis on professional practitioner involvement in the building construction industry, the roles of architects in working within their discipline, and with other built environment professionals.
In this unit you will develop understanding of the legal and ethical responsibilities of built environment professionals to clients, consultants and other parties. This exploration will enable students to contextualise professional practises, within economic, social, cultural and professional conditions. This unit also provides skills that enable the application of professional competency criteria that includes registration, principles of the law of contract, law of tort, copyright, moral rights and professional codes of conduct as they relate to built environment professionals.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Assess legislative, professional, and economic parameters required in setting up a built environment professional practice. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Analyse physical, economic and social parameters, and thereby demonstrate knowledge of the stages involved in a built environment project from inception to completion and evaluate relevant contractual processes. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Evaluate ethical dimensions of built environment professional practice, in terms of social and environmental factors, as well as the legal implications of torts and negligence. | GLO3: Digital literacy |
| ULO4 | Use development planning processes and heritage issues to prepare built environment project procurement. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Integrate knowledge of the costing of individual projects and the economic underpinnings of running a built environment professional practice to study feasibility. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO6 | Understand the importance of teamwork in built environment professional practice, both within a practice, and in terms of working with consultants. | GLO7: Teamwork |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project initiation | Professional fee, services proposal and engagement letter, 2,000-word total | 30% | Week 5 |
| Planning work | Collaborative work: Organisation agreement, minutes and list, and report. Approximately 3,000-words | 30% | Week 10 |
| Examination | 2-hour online examination | 40% | Examination period |
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.
Hurdle requirement
To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit students must achieve at least 50% in the examination.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SRM750 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.
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