Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Elders, custodians, their descendants and kin of this land past and present. Unit study package code: ARCH6009 Mode of study: Internal Tuition pattern summary: Note: For any specific variations to this tuition pattern and for precise information refer to the Learning Activities section. Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly This unit does not have a fieldwork component. Credit Value: 25.0 Pre-requisite units: Nil Co-requisite units: Nil Anti-requisite units: Nil Result type: Grade/Mark Approved incidental fees: Information about approved incidental fees can be obtained from our website. Visit fees.curtin.edu.au/incidental_fees.cfm for details. Unit coordinator: Title: Mr Name: Gerry Kho Phone: +61 8 9266 4985 Email: [email protected]Location: Building: 201 - Room: 633 Teaching Staff: Administrative contact: Name: Anne Clocherty Phone: +61 8 9266 3177 Email: [email protected]Location: Building: 201 Learning Management System: Blackboard (lms.curtin.edu.au) Unit Outline ARCH6009 Architectural Professional Practice 2 Semester 2, 2016 Faculty of Humanities Dept of Architecture and Interior Architecture ARCH6009 Architectural Professional Practice 2 Bentley Campus 25 Jul 2016 Dept of Architecture and Interior Architecture, Faculty of Humanities Page: 1 of 14 CRICOS Provider Code 00301J The only authoritative version of this Unit Outline is to be found online in OASIS
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Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Elders, custodians, their descendants and kin of this land past and present.
Unit study package code: ARCH6009
Mode of study: Internal
Tuition pattern summary: Note: For any specific variations to this tuition pattern and for precise information refer to the Learning Activities section.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
This unit does not have a fieldwork component.
Credit Value: 25.0
Pre-requisite units: Nil
Co-requisite units: Nil
Anti-requisite units: Nil
Result type: Grade/Mark
Approved incidental fees: Information about approved incidental fees can be obtained from our website. Visit fees.curtin.edu.au/incidental_fees.cfm for details.
Syllabus The law, contracts and agreements as they relate to the practice of architecture, conditions of engagement, professional fees, management of commissions and an understanding of the principles of successful management in architectural offices and organisations including: financial management, risks, marketing, workplace relations and quality assurance. This unit also incorporates a fieldwork component.
Introduction Welcome to Professional Practice 2! This unit was designed as part of the conclusion to your Masters degree alongside your dissertation - to prepare you for practice, by encapsulating everything that you have cultivated over the years and mapping it against the diversity of architectural office practices and the delineated aspects of office structure and organisation. Most importantly, by understanding the range of opportunities that practice can offer, you will go through the process of discovering how everything that you have learnt academically, technically, philosophically, socially and intellectually can fit together and be relevant to determining the progression of your future career. This unit will not just be an academic exercise but one that involves a journey of self-exploration and discovery that may assist you in realising your potential and future direction.
The lectures, workshops, exercises and assessments of this unit will be a tool for discovery and an insight to the processes and journey involved from the day you graduate to the day that you, should you be bold enough, decide to take the ‘adventurous’ step of starting your own practice.
The intention is to have, at the end of your final semester, a deeper understanding of the complexity of architectural practices today – from the large corporate firms to the boutique studio or even a free-lancer. This understanding will help you to fashion a realistic industry relevant ‘package’ specific to the ideal practice for you that you can immediately use upon graduation as you engage in the real world when you begin to look for employment.
Unit Learning Outcomes All graduates of Curtin University achieve a set of nine graduate attributes during their course of study. These tell an employer that, through your studies, you have acquired discipline knowledge and a range of other skills and attributes which employers say would be useful in a professional setting. Each unit in your course addresses the graduate attributes through a clearly identified set of learning outcomes. They form a vital part in the process referred to as assurance of learning. The learning outcomes tell you what you are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in this unit. Each assessment for this unit is carefully designed to test your achievement of one or more of the unit learning outcomes. On successfully completing all of the assessments you will have achieved all of these learning outcomes.
Your course has been designed so that on graduating we can say you will have achieved all of Curtin's Graduate Attributes through the assurance of learning process in each unit.
On successful completion of this unit students can: Graduate Attributes addressed
1 Evaluate options related to legal and contractual issues relevant to contemporary professional practice in the discipline
2 Assess the management and marketing practices in a range of industry settings
3 Construct a business plan that considers management and marketing in architectural practice
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Curtin's Graduate Attributes
Learning Activities The learning activities for this unit are all available online on Blackboard under Unit Materials and are arranged into weekly modules. Activities include but are not limited to the following:
l The module content/lectures – slides will be supplied on Blackboard after each session. Each module/lecture will work towards the preparation of the assessment task/s.
l Workshops – a collaborative approach which involves communications with your tutor/lecturer/unit coordinator and your peers. During these sessions you will present your work, engage in discussions, interact and participate. These workshops offer opportunities for you to ask questions and receive responses. Each workshop session will cater towards your preparation of the specific assessment task/s.
l Preparation and submission of assessments/activities.
l Self-directed learning and investigation to supplement the Module materials.
The aim of the learning activities is to enable you to:
l Explore and discover your interests, goals, qualities, potential and future direction as individuals
l Explore career opportunities in the marketplace through understanding professional practice in architectural firms, as well as working in related fields such as within the construction industry, government or other design professions
l How do you better position yourself in the marketplace/industry amongst your peers and set yourself apart from other candidates
l Produce a Curriculum vitae
l Produce a Resume
l Produce a Portfolio
l prepare for job Interviews
l produce a business plan
l produce a marketing and branding package
l use your thesis as an opportunity to discover your set of principles, to find your niche/speciality or the beginning of a research subject should you choose to be an academic
l produce a final holistic and professional ‘branding’ package that encapsulates and ties together your thesis, curriculum vita, resume and portfolio relevant to the industry and presentable to potential employers to be
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l What are your design philosophies/principles?
l What are your strengths, weaknesses and deepest fears? What are you proud of?
l What do you intend to do after graduation? Where are you heading?
l What is/are your long term goals?
l What is/are your short terms goals?
l What is in your 5 year plan?
l What steps are you taking to achieve your goal/s?
In addition to the weekly workshops, you’ll be taking part in a Leadership Program. The weekly workshops will be about information gathering, analysis and discussions that will lead towards the objective of focusing your attention on the usually overwhelming task of figuring out ‘who you are?’ and ‘where are you going?’.
The assignment will be a ‘journal’ that will include the deliverables set out below.
Deliverables for submission:
1. Written and diagrammatic submission consisting of the following -
l Answers to questions
l Mind map
The information gathered from this assignment, that forms your ‘profile’, will be used in future assessments.
For further assessment/submission details and marking criteria, please go to the Assessment tab in Blackboard.
2. a s s e s s m e n t 0 2 – p o r t f o l i o [ 3 0 % ]
Through a series of workshops, you’ll compile, develop and fine tune:
l A resume
l A curriculum vitae
l A portfolio
All the above will be informed by what you have learnt and produced in ASSESSMENT 01. Other than the ‘raw data’, you must consider the following:
l What does your resume, curriculum vitae and portfolio say about you?
l How are you different to another candidate or your peers?
l How and when can you call yourself or be called an expert in certain areas of practice?
You will need to demonstrate that you understand:
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l The roles of the Australian Institute of Architects to practices and practitioners. How is this relevant to you?
l The requirements to becoming a registered architect and the experiences you need during your professional practice - this will determine the types of firms that you decide to work for to provide you with opportunities towards these experiences. In turn, how you would position yourself through your resume, CV and portfolio to improve your chances of being a successful candidate based on the type/s of practice that you wish to work for.
Deliverables for submission:
1. portfolio
2. curriculum vitae
3. resume
4. cover letter
5. a written justification for your resume, curriculum vitae and portfolio
For further assessment/submission details and marking criteria, please go to the Assessment tab in Blackboard.
3. a s s e s s m e n t 0 3 – p r e s e n t a t i o n [ 4 0 % ]
part A – business plan
Let’s set the scene:
You currently work in a tiny firm that operates out of your employer’s dilapidated weatherboard home that freezes in winter and bakes in summer which was ironic because the firm claimed to design environmental sustainable architecture. Throughout your employment, there were creative differences between you and your boss and eventually, you were let go the day after you went on your annual leave. Shortly after, you’ve managed to sit and pass the architect’s registration [like a boss] so you’re now a fully-fledged Architect with a capital ‘A’ [like a boss]! Bored with the projects that you were doing at the firm before you were let go, you managed to fit in more inspiring private projects outside of office hours. Soon you have a small handful of projects under your wing. So instead of being employed with a steady income, you decided ‘what the hell?’ and you’ve set out to start your own practice.
The first part of the assignment is about the birth of a practice. You are to form up and refine the following over a series of workshops:
l A business plan suitable for application for a bank loan or potential investor/s with decisions made about business structure, target market, capital costs etc which will be discussed during the workshop.
l A proposal demonstrating your understanding of the elements used to calculate charge out rates and fees for your services.
The above should be informed by both ASSESSMENTS 01 and 02.
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Deliverables for submission:
1. business plan – written and diagrammatic package
For further assessment/submission details and marking criteria, please go to the Assessment tab in Blackboard.
part B – marketing package
This part of the assignment is about refining and packaging everything that you have discovered, filtered and developed through elements taken from ASSESSMENTS 01 and 02:
l A marketing package [including a website should you rise up to the challenge!] that speaks of your ‘brand’ or speciality/niche.
l This package will demonstrate your understanding of professional ethics around the advertisement of yourself [whether as a practitioner or of a firm].
Deliverables to be displayed at your thesis exhibition:
1. business cards
2. portfolio
3. curriculum vitae
4. resume
5. pamphlet for potential employer – tell them what you’re about effectively
This final package will need to be linked to your thesis and will be at the end-of-year exhibition that will showcase the final Masters students’ dissertation projects to the industry and to potential employers. No pressure! Everything should read as ONE holistic exhibition that expresses who you are and what you’re about. Consider how the 5 elements listed above are linked visually - graphics, colours, layout and even font used. Remember, this is your ‘shopfront’ or first impression of YOU. Treat potential employers like potential investors.
For further assessment/submission details and marking criteria, please go to the Assessment tab in Blackboard.
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Pass requirements
Students must achieve following must be achieved to pass this unit:
l Complete and submit all assessments
l Final total Mark of 50 or greater
Note that there are no supplementary assessments or exams for this unit.
Fair assessment through moderation
Moderation describes a quality assurance process to ensure that assessments are appropriate to the learning outcomes, and that student work is evaluated consistently by assessors. Minimum standards for the moderation of assessment are described in the Assessment and Student Progression Manual, available from policies.curtin.edu.au/policies/teachingandlearning.cfm
Late assessment policy
This ensures that the requirements for submission of assignments and other work to be assessed are fair, transparent, equitable, and that penalties are consistently applied.
1. All assessments students are required to submit will have a due date and time specified on this Unit Outline. 2. Students will be penalised by a deduction of ten percent per calendar day for a late assessment submission
(eg a mark equivalent to 10% of the total allocated for the assessment will be deducted from the marked value for every day that the assessment is late). This means that an assessment worth 20 marks will have two marks deducted per calendar day late. Hence if it was handed in three calendar days late and given a mark of 16/20, the student would receive 10/20. An assessment more than seven calendar days overdue will not be marked and will receive a mark of 0.
Assessment extension
A student unable to complete an assessment task by/on the original published date/time (eg examinations, tests) or due date/time (eg assignments) must apply for an assessment extension using the Assessment Extension form (available from the Forms page at students.curtin.edu.au/administration/) as prescribed by the Academic Registrar. It is the responsibility of the student to demonstrate and provide evidence for exceptional circumstances beyond the student's control that prevent them from completing/submitting the assessment task.
The student will be expected to lodge the form and supporting documentation with the unit coordinator before the assessment date/time or due date/time. An application may be accepted up to five working days after the date or due date of the assessment task where the student is able to provide an acceptable explanation as to why he or she was not able to submit the application prior to the assessment date. An application for an assessment extension will not be accepted after the date of the Board of Examiners' meeting.
Deferred assessments
Supplementary assessments
Supplementary assessments are not available in this unit.
If your results show that you have been granted a deferred assessment you should immediately check OASIS for details.
Deferred examinations/tests will be held from DD/MM/YY to DD/MM/YY . Notification to students will be made after the Board of Examiners’ meeting via the Official Communications Channel (OCC) in OASIS.
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Reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities/health circumstances likely to impact on studies
A Curtin Access Plan (CAP) is a document that outlines the type and level of support required by a student with a disability or health condition to have equitable access to their studies at Curtin. This support can include alternative exam or test arrangements, study materials in accessible formats, access to Curtin’s facilities and services or other support as discussed with an advisor from Disability Services (disability.curtin.edu.au). Documentation is required from your treating Health Professional to confirm your health circumstances.
If you think you may be eligible for a CAP, please contact Disability Services. If you already have a CAP please provide it to the Unit Coordinator at the beginning of each semester.
Referencing style
The referencing style for this unit is Chicago.
More information can be found on this style from the Library web site: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/referencing.
Academic Integrity (including plagiarism and cheating) Any conduct by a student that is dishonest or unfair in connection with any academic work is considered to be academic misconduct. Plagiarism and cheating are serious offences that will be investigated and may result in penalties such as reduced or zero grades, annulled units or even termination from the course.
Plagiarism occurs when work or property of another person is presented as one's own, without appropriate acknowledgement or referencing. Submitting work which has been produced by someone else (e.g. allowing or contracting another person to do the work for which you claim authorship) is also plagiarism. Submitted work is subjected to a plagiarism detection process, which may include the use of text matching systems or interviews with students to determine authorship.
Cheating includes (but is not limited to) asking or paying someone to complete an assessment task for you or any use of unauthorised materials or assistance during an examination or test.
From Semester 1, 2016, all incoming coursework students are required to complete Curtin’s Academic Integrity Program (AIP). If a student does not pass the program by the end of their first study period of enrolment at Curtin, their marks will be withheld until they pass. More information about the AIP can be found at: https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/students/AIP.cfm
Refer to the Academic Integrity tab in Blackboard or academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au for more information, including student guidelines for avoiding plagiarism.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Expectations Curtin students are expected to have reliable internet access in order to connect to OASIS email and learning systems such as Blackboard and Library Services.
You may also require a computer or mobile device for preparing and submitting your work.
For general ICT assistance, in the first instance please contact OASIS Student Support: oasisapps.curtin.edu.au/help/general/support.cfm
For specific assistance with any of the items listed below, please contact The Learning Centre: life.curtin.edu.au/learning-support/learning_centre.htm
l Using Blackboard, the I Drive and Back-Up files l Introduction to PowerPoint, Word and Excel
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It is your responsibility to ensure that your enrolment is correct - you can check your enrolment through the eStudent option on OASIS, where you can also print an Enrolment Advice.
Student Rights and Responsibilities It is the responsibility of every student to be aware of all relevant legislation, policies and procedures relating to their rights and responsibilities as a student. These include:
l the Student Charter l the University's Guiding Ethical Principles l the University's policy and statements on plagiarism and academic integrity l copyright principles and responsibilities l the University's policies on appropriate use of software and computer facilities
Information on all these things is available through the University's "Student Rights and Responsibilities" website at: students.curtin.edu.au/rights.
Student Equity There are a number of factors that might disadvantage some students from participating in their studies or assessments to the best of their ability, under standard conditions. These factors may include a disability or medical condition (e.g. mental illness, chronic illness, physical or sensory disability, learning disability), significant family responsibilities, pregnancy, religious practices, living in a remote location or another reason. If you believe you may be unfairly disadvantaged on these or other grounds please contact Student Equity at [email protected] or go to http://eesj.curtin.edu.au/student_equity/index.cfm for more information
You can also contact Counselling and Disability services: http://www.disability.curtin.edu.au or the Multi-faith services: http://life.curtin.edu.au/health-and-wellbeing/about_multifaith_services.htm for further information.
It is important to note that the staff of the university may not be able to meet your needs if they are not informed of your individual circumstances so please get in touch with the appropriate service if you require assistance. For general wellbeing concerns or advice please contact Curtin's Student Wellbeing Advisory Service at: http://life.curtin.edu.au/health-and-wellbeing/student_wellbeing_service.htm
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Recent unit changes Students are encouraged to provide unit feedback through eVALUate, Curtin's online student feedback system. For more information about eVALUate, please refer to evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/.
Recent changes to this unit include:
1. Introduction
2. Learning activities
3. Assessment details
4. Assessment value
5. Program calendar
Reasons for change
l Shifting of the unit from a knowledge focus outline to emphasize on the preparation of graduating students into professional practice that is relevant to the industry.
l A focus on continuous growth and process rather than merely testing the students’ knowledge through regurgitation of what has been taught in class.
l The changes to the unit will place emphasis on ‘summarizing’ or packaging the students’ academic experience over the years that will assist in gaining employment in the industry.
To view previous student feedback about this unit, search for the Unit Summary Report at https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/student/unit_search.cfm. See https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/dates.cfm to find out when you can eVALUate this unit.
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