documenting the development of a new honours program across media, communication and design

Program Capabilities (2)

Posted: November 11th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: documentation | Tags: , , | Comments Off

Cathy Cole offered a compelling rewrite:

Honours graduates will be able to contextualise, problem solve and respond to critical and creative questions relevant to communication, technology and various media. They will engage with and respond to ideas from their disciplinary base and extend this using their interdisciplinary and collaborative skills. They will have a deep understanding of research as a creative and critical practice as it relates to their individual field and discipline. They will be investigators who demonstrate academic rigour in their understanding of their own and other disciplines. They will bring skills and leadership to complex situations including the development of projects and learning and research activities in individual or group pursuit. They will have a deep knowledge of their field and of research praxis, an enhanced capacity to identify and investigate problems in contemporary media, communications and creative fields and will offer applied as well as theoretical approaches in responding to these.

And then Jeremy Y and Adrian M quickly sketched these:

As a graduate of this program you will:

  • be able to creatively and critically develop meaningful problems within media and communication
  • apply research skills and practices to complex problems
  • work within interdisciplinary teams and be capable of making significant contributions as a collaborator
  • have deep knowledge of your field and how it relates to contemporary media and communications
  • know how to use research as an integral part of creative and critical practice.
  • demonstrate leadership skills in your ability to develop projects and through your understanding of the processes that enable collaboration
  • understand the strengths and contributions of your own discipline to projects and the value and significance of other disciplines
  • be able to undertake sophisticated self directed research
  • know why your research matters and how to express this in a variety of discipline relevant ways

And we mapped them as:

White board capability matrix


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