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An opportunity to apply the skills you are acquiring through your academic study to a project designed by a local company or community group in New Zealand, or internationally.
Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) internship courses provide an opportunity for practical application of disciplinary theory, skills, and knowledge during an internship in an approved business or community organisation. PACE courses are specialised, hybrid courses: half of the course takes place in the classroom where you have the opportunity to develop your professionalism and broaden the application of your academic discipline, and half the course takes place in the workplace where you can put that knowledge to use. The focus of PACE295 is to build your career identity and career literacies. Topics discussed in workshops include:- Values and self-awareness- Communication and leadership- Teamwork and decision-making- AI and storytelling- Career identity and mobility- Digital storytelling- Career exploration and study awareness- Ethical and responsible behaviourStudents have worked on a diverse range of placements and projects including analysing social media, accounting, biochemistry, geology, supply chain management, human services,event organisation, policy analysis, media strategy development, marketing and fundraising, oral history research, community and social development. You name it, we can source it!Application deadline: Apply online through myUC by 8 October.
Assess employability literacies in relation to their own career development journey.Demonstrate an understanding of multicultural perspectives and ways of being, included but not limited to Māori and Pasifika perspectives.Correlate their internship experience to their own personal development and to the work context of New Zealand. Critically reflect on their career development journey.Course AimsTo understand your own workplace skills and further develop them.To develop awareness of transferable, workplace skills. To engage in a project that is understood as broadly useful by both you and a business or community organisation. To creatively tell your story of work.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Biculturally competent and confident
Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.
Engaged with the community
Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
Globally aware
Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.
Any 90 points at any level from any subject, special application and interview, and permission of the Internship Director.
ARTS295
PACE195 - Professional and Community Engagement
Clare Dannenberg
Kylie Taffard
Leanne Smallridge
Career Conversation Vlog - 10%Supervisor Evaluation - 15%15/5 Reflections - 5%Digital Story and reflection - 20%Dilemma Reflection - 15%Attendance - 10%70 hours of internship - 25%
Domestic fee $894.00
International fee $4,100.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Work Integrated Learning on the departments and faculties page .