In this unit students will undertake 100-hour internships, ideally in the workplace. Interns will work with industry supervisors to develop their abilities as agile professionals with transferable employability skills and critical and creative abilities to work across industries and sectors and craft diverse employment paths. By undertaking an internship in the workplace, they will integrate disciplinary knowledge with the professional skills required in their industry and develop their sense of professional identity and purpose. Internships will only be available to students who demonstrate readiness to learn in the workplace and are accepted into the internship prior to enrolment.

Enrolment in this unit is subject to entry requirements. Please direct enquiries and unit registration forms to FADInternships@canberra.edu.au

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Reflect on and evaluate the standards of performance and practice expected in the workplace and the profession, and how professional skills and knowledge align with these expectations based on their accumulated academic knowledge to date;
2. Analyse the role and application of theoretical ideas and knowledge in professional contexts;
3.Solve problems and make appropriate and ethical decisions in the workplace using information, skills developed throughout their course, professional and disciplinary knowledge and consideration of different perspectives; and
4. Acquire, further develop, articulate, and apply a range of transferable employability skills.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - communicate and engage with Indigenous Australians in ethical and culturally respectful ways

Prerequisites

Must be enrolled in Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Communication and Media, Bachelor of Design, Bachelor of Creative Industries or Bachelor of Digital Design programs or Bachelor of Building and Construction Management or Bachelor of Landscape Design courses.

Students must have passed 24 credits points in the course AND one of the following units:
10333 Professional Orientation: Arts OR
10334 Professional Orientation: Built Environment OR
10335 Professional Orientation: Communication and Media OR
10336 Professional Orientation: Design OR
11591 Professional Orientation (Creative Industries and Digital Design)

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.