Planning Day Schedule

VERSION ONE OF THE PLANNING DAY SCHEDULE

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

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

[10:00 - 10:15]

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

[10:15 - 13:00]

honours and research

• what is honours research?
• what should the research vision for honours be?
• what sorts of research outcomes should be expected?
• how should research here relate to the school?

honours and teaching and learning

• what should a supervisor do, or be, in honours?
• what general teaching and learning values should inform honours?
• what sorts of assessment outcomes and practices should inform honours?
• how should teacher, supervisor and student directed learning be framed in honours?
• should honours embrace a program wide teaching approach (eg Problem Based Learning)?

graduate attributes

• what should honours graduates be able to do?
• what should they know about?
• what qualities should they exhibit?
• what opportunities should honours provide or create for its graduates?

[13:00 - 13:30 LUNCH]

13:45 – 3:15

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)

subject scenarios

Research Methods

• what does the methods subject need to do in order to support honours?
• what should the methods subject enable students to be able to do?
• what vision or understanding of research as a practice should it enable?

Media and Communication Futures

• what sorts of things would happen in a subject like this to support honours?
• what are some of the things a subject like this might need to do to be seen as relevant to all students and their experience of honours?
• how could this subject be different to similar subjects in other honours programs in Australia?
• why would a student want to do this?