Course Title: Design Internship

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Design Internship

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
GRAP2571	City Campus	Undergraduate	320H Architecture & Urban Design	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2014, Sem 2 2014, Sem 1 2015, Sem 2 2015, Sem 1 2016, Sem 2 2016, Sem 1 2017, Sem 2 2017
GRAP2571	City Campus	Undergraduate	370H Design	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2018, Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 2 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 2 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 2 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 2 2024, Sem 1 2025, Sem 2 2025

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
GRAP2571	City Campus	Undergraduate	370H Design	Face-to-Face	UGRDFlex22 (BP15)
GRAP2571	City Campus	Undergraduate	370H Design	Face-to-Face	UGRDFlex23 (B104), UGRDFlex23 (DES1), UGRDFlex23 (DES2), UGRDFlex23 (All)

Course Coordinator: Shaun Wilson

Course Coordinator Phone: Please email

Course Coordinator Email: shaun.wilson@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Please email

Course Coordinator Availability: Please email

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Students should have progressed to mid-way or beyond in their program to enrol in this course, and all first-year core courses must have been completed.

This course is open to undergraduate students from any program in the School of Design, including Communication Design, Industrial Design, and Digital Design (Games, Animation, and Digital Media) programs.

This course is a component of a major offered by the Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program.

Course Description

Design Internship provides you with a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunity with design-oriented businesses and organisations. You will experience how to contribute to design practice in a business, government or community context. You will learn about professional design practice by working alongside experienced designers within a host enterprise.

This course may be undertaken in a variety of modes that are appropriate to your learning experience. Your internship will be of 80 hours duration. To enable flexibility with securing an internship, you can elect to extend your internship duration by an additional 40 hours. These additional hours will not be assessed but will be covered by RMIT insurance.

Your internship can be spread out over several months or as an intensive immersion into a particular setting. Your internship can be in Australia or abroad; and can be remote or face-to-face. As there are no face-to-face teaching hours this course may be able to be completed entirely remotely.

You must secure an internship before you can be enrolled into the GRAP2571 Design Internship course.

To learn how to secure an internship, please refer to the Overview of Learning Activities in this document.

Once you are enrolled, you can commence your internship.You will be added to the Design Internship Canvas Shell that details three online assessment tasks that you need to complete by the due dates.

Industry Internship Requirements

An agreement including schedule and relevant insurance documentation is required to be completed before commencing each internship (local and international). International internships must be registered and processed through RMIT Global Mobility (Melbourne) / RMIT Career Development and Employment (Vietnam). In the case where a placement ends early, please refer to changes or cancellation of WIL activities in the WIL Procedure.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:

• Apply analytical, critical, creative and strategic thinking to design problems and research within complex and unfamiliar contexts and concerns.
• Collaborate with other specialists and key stakeholders on design problems on multi-disciplinary projects in diverse settings.
• Generate innovative approaches to design problems and solutions, with a criticality and openness to the perspectives and needs of others in a situation.
• Initiate, plan, manage and execute research and design projects with independence and in an objective and ethical manner.
• Reflect on own learning and the efficacy of design decisions made, adapting to needs and issues as they arise, and continuously seeking improvement.

If you are taking this course as an option course or as part of a minor, this course will complement the learning outcomes you are developing in your program.

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Locate your approaches to design within ethical and operational protocols of the design profession.
2. Work effectively in collaboration with (and under direction from) industry mentors and demonstrate initiative in the execution of design tasks.
3. Demonstrate a capacity to apply design knowledge and skills in a professional context with criticality and creativity.
4. Reflect deeply on own conduct and experience in view of continuing professional and intellectual development.

Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in undertaking design activities within a professional work context. This will include design development and documentation, learning about the various operational process and ethical protocols of a commercial design studio or design-oriented business or organisation, reflecting on your experience of working in a professional context, and presenting that experience to a community of peers. You will be supported by a range of resources and consultations to assist your internship experience.

Details of Learning Activities

You must secure an internship before you can be enrolled into the GRAP2571 Design Internship course.

To get started, you can access the 'WIL Toolkit for Students' site which provides ‘Essential Admin Steps’ that you need to complete before you start your internship. You can apply for internships through the advertised position descriptions on the ‘Getting Started Internship Opportunities’ site, or you are welcome to find an internship through your networks and/or direct applications. These sites offer many informative resources including links, videos, and suggestive how-to guides to support the stages of ‘before’, ‘during’, and ‘after’ your internship experience.

Your internship should be:

• Commenced halfway through your degree e.g. from 2, 3, 4 years.
• Hours - a minimum of 80 hours and a maximum of 120 hours
• Your internship hours must be completed by Week 12 (or last week of flex term), inline with your final assessment.
• Supervision - please check the ‘WIL Toolkit for Students’ or the ‘Design Opportunities site’ for the relevant supervision requirements

Once you have secured an internship, you will need to submit an online WIL Agreement request through the ‘WIL agreement Portal’ found on the WIL Toolkit under Essential Admin Steps. Once this Agreement is completed and signed by all parties and approved by the Design Internship Coordinator, then you will be enrolled into the GRAP2571 Design Internship course and you can commence your internship.

Please note you will need 12 credit points available in your study plan to enrol in this course.

Once you are enrolled, you can commence your internship. You will be added to the Design Internship Canvas Shell. Here you will find 3 Assessment Tasks relevant to your studies. You are required to complete these Tasks by the due dates.

Please note: If you have not found an internship by the Census Date, you will not be able to enrol into GRAP2571 Design Internship that current semester. You are expected to have made multiple approaches to companies in order to secure an internship prior to Census Date.

You can also book a 1:1 Design Student Consultation with RMIT Careers to answer any of your questions regarding resumes, portfolios, applications, interviews, or assist in any areas where you may need support.

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. Course specific resources such as readings, reference lists, access to specialist software, video demonstrations and class notes will be provided online.

There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT student website.

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes.

Ungraded course
Please note that this course is ungraded. That means you will receive either a Pass Grade (PX) or a Fail Grade (NN) on completion.
The assessment task percentage weightings give you an indication of the volume and significance of the work required relative to the whole course experience.
For assessment tasks due for submission during the relevant semester teaching period, if you receive a Fail Grade on work submitted you will have one week to address the specific feedback and resubmit for reassessment. For assessment tasks due after the conclusion of classes this option is not available.
To successfully complete this course, you need to have passed all assessment tasks.
Courses with a PX grade structure are automatically excised from the calculation of your Grade Point Average (GPA) and are not included in the calculation of Weighted Academic Mark (WAM) for embedded Bachelor Honours programs.
This approach to grading and assessment is aimed at ensuring each course is inclusive of student diversity and prior learning and capabilities can be developed as is appropriate to your discipline and interests.

Assessment Tasks
Task 1: Securing your Internship: review, 25% CLO1
Task 2: Organisational and situational analysis , 30% CLOs 2 & 3
Task 3: Looking back and forward, 45% CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 4

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.