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BUS101A
Core
3
100
In order to be a successful student at ICMS and to develop your career skills ready for work, it is essential to understand and integrate a range of tertiary tools and skills that you can use to demonstrate your growing academic ability and career readiness.
This subject takes a holistic approach in supporting you on your pathway to success. It focuses on supporting your smooth transition into the College and developing your academic skills and performance, so you can maximise success in your chosen program. Through engaging classroom activities, you’ll get to test out your growing informational literacy and interpersonal skills; using them to clearly communicate to a given audience both orally and in writing. Towards the end of the subject, you’ll focus on what lies ahead; developing an employability toolkit which will help you enter and succeed in the professional workplace.
a) Describe how personal strengths relate to chosen study and future career
b) Demonstrate tertiary academic and research skills and apply them to academic and information literacy and professional competencies.
c) Arrange a portfolio to support academic and professional success
d) Express ideas in both written and oral forms to communicate effectively
Full-time trimester delivery | |||
No | Assessment Task | Weighting | Learning Outcomes |
1 | Quiz | 20% | b |
2 | Report | 30% | a,b,d |
3 | Employability Toolkit part I | 25% | a,c,d |
4 | Employability Toolkit part II | 25% | c,d |
Intensive delivery | Intensive delivery | Intensive delivery | Intensive delivery |
No | Assessment Task | Weighting | Learning Outcomes |
1 | Quiz | 20% | b |
2 | Report | 30% | a,b,d |
3 | Employability Toolkit part I | 25% | a,c,d |
4 | Employability Toolkit part II | 25% | c,d |
Topic: |
Getting comfy in your new surroundings |
Being informationally literate |
Ready for reading, ready for writing |
Business Communication |
Ready for group work: Developing your interpersonal skills |
Presenting your work |
Your Professional skills: The keys to success |
Career jumpstart 1 – Introduction to Careers |
Career jumpstart 2 – Presenting Yourself in the workplace |
Career jumpstart 3 – Interview skills |
Setting yourself up for success |
Please note that these topics are often refined and subject to change so for up to date weekly topics and suggested reading resources, please refer to the Moodle subject page.