Credit points: 15.0
Staff: Jon Stebbins, John Stinchcombe, Paul Gleeson, Margret Holding.
Contact: Five 3—hour seminars and individual supervision.
(Second semester.)
Objectives: On completion of this subject students should be able to:
A
demonstrate the knowledge, strategies and skills acquired during the course by successful application to an aspect of student welfare in the participant's particular educational setting;A use an action research model for the development and implementation of change;
A
use peer consultancy skills in a practical situation; and• apply problem solving, personal and interpersonal management processes and program development skills in an educational setting.
Content: The Project is intended to utilise and extend the knowledge and skills acquired during the course with particular emphasis on the needs and settings of individual students. Students are required to design, implement and evaluate a practical change program in their own school or college.
Assessment: A formal report (4500 words) (100 per cent).
The course aims to develop in students a consolidation and advancement of graphic communication teaching and curriculum, an extension of their understanding and application of psychological research in perception and cognition, the improvement of manual and computer—aided graphic communication skills and the development of their ability as advocates for graphic communication teaching and curriculum.
Please note: There is no further new student intake into this course. The last intake into this course was in 1994.
Subjects in this course will no longer be available after 1996.
Students should discuss their enrolment with the Course Co- ordinator to ensure that they undertake the necessary subjects in 1996 to enable them to complete the course by the end of 1996.
The Graduate Diploma in Graphic Communication Education is a one—year full—time or equivalent part—time course designed to provide specialist studies for qualified teachers who are engaged in, or desiring to teach graphic communication in post—primary colleges, TAFE colleges and independent schools. It is an approved fourth year of study for primary teachers. The course is appropriate for qualified teachers who are engaged in co—ordination and consultancy related to graphic communication education. The course has a strong focus on practical skills acquisition both computer and manual, in developing folios and curriculum related to The Arts Framework : P-10 and the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) Study Design.
The Course Code for the Graduate Diploma in Graphic Communication Education is 258AA.
CREDIT
A student who, having completed other studies at a tertiary level. enrols in the course for the Graduate Diploma in Graphic Communication Education may, with approval, be given credit for subjects the equivalent of which have been passed in the other tertiary studies provided that the amount of credit shall not exceed 50 per cent of the requirements of the course.
Credit will not be granted for similar studies in a course for which the student has already taken out an Award, or which was used to gain entry to the Graduate Diploma in Graphic Communication Education.
Exemptions from some of the requirements of a subject may be granted to students who submit evidence of having completed related studies and/or experience in those areas.
Course Objectives
Graduate Diploma in Graphic Communication Education The course has as its objectives that diplomates should be able to:
• implement the graphic communication guidelines of the Directorate of Schools Curriculum standards Framework in Graphic Communication Education and VCE Study Design documents, and develop
appropriate aims, objectives, teaching strategies and sequenced leaming experiences in graphic
communication in either years P-6 or years 7-10 and VIC units 1-4;
A understand computer-aided graphics to develop appropriate curriculum and learning experiences for students;
• develop design briefs that facilitate appropriate and contextual problem-solving experiences for various age levels to the design areas of products, the environment and the communication of information:
A implement social justice policies for the school and classroom, and particularly in graphic communication curriculum and teaching;
• revise and modify skills and knowledge as the context eg. technology, changes; and
♦ advocate effectively the nature and worth of graphic communication education.
PERIOD OF CANDIDATURE
After being admitted, a candidate must pursue a course of advanced studies for at least one and not more than two academic years as a full—time student, or for at least two and not more than four academic years as a part—time student, unless a candidate has had a different period of candidature
approved by the Academic Board on the recommendation of the Faculty.
UNSATISFACTORY PROGRESS
Following the confirmation of results at the end of the academic year the enrolments of certain students come under review as follows:
1. Students who gain credit of less than one half of their total enrolment in that year
2. Students who fail a subject for the second time;
3. Students who do not complete their course within two years as a full—time student or within four years as a part—
time student.
Please refer to the General Information section at the front of this Course and Subject Guide, under Unsatisfactory Progress, for an outline of the Faculty process in dealing with students who fall into these categories.
COMPUTER LITERACY
Successful study in the graduate programs will require students to develop computer literacy. In practical terms, this means that students will need to acquire skills in word processing, file and disk management, network and on—line library access. The Facultys Computer Facilities offer a number of training courses specifically tailored to these and other needs. Enquiries should be directed to: Hawthorn: — Telephone 9810 3332; Parkville: — Telephone 9344 8415.
QUALIFYING FOR THE AWARD
The Graduate Diploma in Graphic Communication Education may be granted to a student who has complied with the prescribed
conditionsand has gained a
cumulativescore of 100 points by having passed or been given credit for each of the compulsory subjects.
The course has three strands with compulsory subjects in each strand.
Code Subject Points
Strand 1
775-119 Graphic Communication Teaching and Curriculum
1775-123 Graphic Communication
Teaching and Curriculum 2
Strand 2
775-121 Visual Pe
rception, Cognition and
Creativity in Graphic Communication 16.7
Strand 3775-118 Applied Design Studies in Graphic Communication Education 1 —
Information Communication Design 16.7 775-120 Applied Design Studies in
Graphic Communication
Education 2 — Product Design 16.7 775-122 Applied Design Studies in Graphic
Communication Education 3 —
Environmental Design 16.7
100.0
Hawthorn Campus
The Office of the Associate Registrar, Hawthorn Campus, 442 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, Telephone:1800 656 116; or Lawrie Drysdale, Telephone: (03) 9810 3375.
Parkville Campus
Faculty of Education Office, Alice Hoy Building, Telephone (03) 9344 8285.
PROGRAM FOR
1996
Code Subject Staff
775-118 Applied Design Studies in Graphic F Adern,
DBeech, Communication Education
1—
Information
PStebbins
Communication Design Semester
1:Saturday & Sunday, TBA, 9.00am — 4.00pm 775-120 Applied Design Studies in
Graphic J
Stinchcombe Communication Education 2 —
Product Design
Semester 2: Saturday & Sunday, TBA, 9.00am — 5.00pm 16.7
16.7
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