Second Planning Day 2

Had an honours working group meeting today and we workshopped, rejigged and generally hacked the proposed schedule for the second planning day. The tools we need for the day are:

• lots of post it notes
• white board markers
• cameras
• scenario sheets
• textas, sharpies and coloured markers
• scissors
• tape
• A3 and A4 paper

The new schedule is:

Date: July 14
Time: 10am to 4pm.
Venue: Building 9, room 9.2.17 TBC

(This is not a decision making day but to help inform thinking and provide input to the development of the honours program.)

Bachelor of Media and Communication ([nnn]) (Hons)
[Media, Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising, Professional Communication, Communication Design, Creative Media]

[10:00 - 10:30]

• introductions
• outline of honours structure
• outline of the key outcomes sought from the day

[10:30 - 13:00]

Things to remember: idea is for four studio/labs, 10 students per studio. Supervision is not happening in labs, labs are about projects, supervision is about individual research practice/scholarship.

studio – laboratory scenario (more details available)

• develop project scenarios (10 minutes)
• define personas (20 minutes)
• develop contexts (20 minutes)
• develop and mark up (on timelines) implementation (30 minutes)

Introduce this with outline/discussion/speculations about what the lab/studio might or could be – themes, existing projects. Imagine there be a lab director and a separate supervisor. And these are some of the seeding questions/prompts to answer and think with;

• what is the role of the supervisor? The studio leader?
• what sorts of learning activities and assessment outcomes should could there be?
• what should could research be in honours? In this studio/lab model?
• what sorts of outcomes should could be expected?
• how should could these studios/labs and their outcomes relate to the school?
• what do you need to know to run a studio/lab?
• what resources do you need to run a studio/lab?
• what does a student need to know?
• should could studio/labs be thematically defined/themed?
• should could studio/labs be defined by projects? Both projects and themes?

At the end of all this each group will report back

[13:00 - 13:30]

Lunch (provided) and presentation about honours at University of Salford

[13:45 - 16:00]

Working in small groups, each group will deal with one of the following. Please make dot points, and each group will report back at the end:

• LEARNING: what learning activities and assessments should could there be in honours?
• GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES: what qualities are needed to do honours? What qualities would honours develop? What qualities should could honours develop?
• METHODS: how can the research methods subject contribute to and support the studio/labs and their outcomes? How can the methods subject be relevant to all the disciplines? What would make the methods subject different from existing ones so that it can be taught?
• MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION FUTURES: what sorts of things should could a subject like this include? What or how might it be different to the sorts of honours communication courses that are offered elsewhere?