Course Title: Project Planning Monitoring and Evaluation
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2012
Course Code: BUSM5530
Course Title: Project Planning Monitoring and Evaluation
School: 365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng
Campus: Bundoora Campus
Program: C5001 - Diploma in Youth in Development Work
Course Contact : Jennifer Brooker
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4115
Course Contact Email:jennifer.brooker@rmit.edu.au
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Nominal Hours: 70
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Working with young people
Course Description
The aim of this module is to introduce the student to the practises that have built up around the design and management of projects in the last few decades.
Learning Outcomes
Students will cover the topics of:
1. Introduction to project planning
2. Situational and stakeholder analysis
3. The logframe
4. Preparing project proposals
5. Organising for implementation
6. Monitoring and evaluation
Details of Learning Activities
When you have worked through this module you should be able to:
- identify acitivities involved in project planning, monitoring and evaluation
- desctibe procedures of situational and stakeholder analysis
- outline the process of preparing a monitoring and evaluation procedure
- write a proposal for funding including logframes
The skills you will work through include:
- identify activites involved in project planning, monitoring and evaluation
- conduct situational analysis
- plan projects on the basis of a logical framework
- prepare a detailed project proposal with clear aims and objectives and realistic methods of achieving them
- write and present proposals for funding from different sources
- create sytems for monitoring and evaluating projects.
Teaching Schedule
During the seven weeks of their module Students will work through the following modules:
- Unit 1: Introduction to prjooct planning
- Unit 2: Situational and stakeholder analysis
- Unit 3: The logframe
- Unit 4: Preparing project proposals
- Unit 5: Organising for implementation
- Unit 6: Monitoring and evaluation
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Essay/project
Learning Journal
Assessment Tasks
Assessment requirements for this unit are:
- A major research assignmnet of approximarelte 2000 words (worth 50% of the final grade)
- the learning journal - the learning activities and self-help questions (worth 50% of the final grade)
Assessment Matrix
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