Personal and professional skills is designed for students to develop attitudes, skills and strategies to be applied to personal and professional situations and contexts now and in the future.

In this course the emphasis is on skills development for the workplace, as these are transferable and can be applied in a range of situations.

The personal and professional skills course aims to develop responsibility, practical problem-solving, good intellectual habits, ethical understandings, perseverance, resilience, an appreciation of identity and perspective, and an understanding of the complexity of the modern world. Emphasis is on the development of skills needed to successfully navigate higher education, the workplace and society. With that in mind the PPS will be very practical in nature. A minimum of 90 timetabled hours will be devoted to the personal and professional skills course. 

Assessment

In each project you are given an assessment rubric which measures your level of engagement across the PPS themes and a set of criteria. You are measured by 1 - 3 points on whether you have:

ENGAGED IN the criteria = 3 marks

DEMONSTRATED the criteria = 2 marks

CONSIDERED the criteria = 1 mark

Over the duration of your PPS projects you will be expected to maintain a high-level of attendance and engagement which requires an average grade of 2.0 to pass the PPS course.