Industry Placement 2

Overview

This unit further extends students' practical knowledge and academic performance by offering experiential, discipline-specific learning through an Industry Placement. It provides students with opportunities to refine advanced design skills within a professional context, participate in creative team dynamics and gain further insights into contemporary workplace culture, ethics, issues, responsibilities and practices for communication design practice. Students will have the opportunities to contextualise existing design skills within a professional environment.

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Practising design within a professional context
• Managing time, tasks and resources within industry-specific design processes
• Reflection on the management tools implemented and strategic direction of organisations
• Understanding and managing team dynamics
• Professional communication skills
• Interpreting client and customer expectations
• Business processes, language and protocols