IT Professional Engagement

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Effective Term: 2025/05
Institute / School :Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability
Unit Title: IT Professional Engagement
Unit ID: ITECH3000
Credit Points: 0.00
Prerequisite(s): Nil
Co-requisite(s): Nil
Exclusion(s): Nil
ASCED: 029999
Other Change:  
Brief description of the Unit

Students participate in this compulsory unit throughout their entire Bachelors or Masters program of study. During this unit students will get involved with their local IT community through attendance and participation in events, such as seminars, workshops, expos, discussion forums etc. Where possible students will also participate in short term work experience or longer term work placements. This unit is unique in that it allows students to craft their own personal experience. The aim is to provide students with a broad understanding of the IT industry, its research foundations and its place in servicing society. This unit is open to students to find the activities that provide them the best transition into the workplace and allows them to connect with the area of the IT industry they are most interested. Finally, this unit allows students to build a picture of what a career may look like in the domain of their choosing.

Grade Scheme: Ungraded (S, UN)
Work Experience Indicator:
No work experience
Placement Component:
Supplementary Assessment:No
Supplementary assessment is not available to students who gain a fail in this Unit.
Course Level:
Level of Unit in CourseAQF Level(s) of Course
5678910
Introductory                                                
Intermediate                                                
Advanced                                                
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge:
K1.

Identify the Australian Computer Society`s (ACS) Core Body of Knowledge (CBOK) and where it is represented in industry practice.

K2.

Discuss the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) and how it is reflected in industry practice.

Skills:
S1.

Analyse and link the ACS`s CBOK and SFIA to industry practice.

Application of knowledge and skills:
A1.

Critique research and industry practice and determine your place in the spectrum of career possibilities.

Other outcomes:
Unit Content:

This unit is unique in that it allows students to craft their own personal experience. The aim is to provide students with a broad understanding of the IT industry, its research foundations and its place in servicing society. This unit allows students to find their own area of interest and build a picture of what a career may look like in that domain.

Topics may include:
1. IT and related industry activity in the local community.
2. Industry and research developments around the globe.
3. ACS`s CBOK, SFIA and their relationship with industry.
4. Career pathways.

Graduate Attributes:
Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.

FED TASK and descriptorDevelopment and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit
Level
FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal

Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills\\ • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams.

Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context
FEDTASK 2
Leadership

Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations.

N/A - Not Applicable
FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity

Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning.

N/A - Not Applicable
FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy

Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities.

Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines
FEDTASK 5
sustainable and Ethical Mindset

Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life

N/A - Not Applicable
 Learning Outcomes AssessedAssessment TasksAssessment TypeWeightingProfessional Standards
1.

K1-2, S1, A1

Artifact demonstrating community engagement activities submitted each semester. This report will describe each activity and relate it to each of the unit`s learning outcome, CBOK and SFIA.

Journal

Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Adopted Reference Style:
APA  ()

Professional Standards / Competencies:
 Standard / Competency