[School Name]
[Faculty Name]
[XLL301]
VICE CHANCELLOR’S LEADERSHIP AWARD
Semester 2, 2016
Unit Outline
Kristin Warr Pedersen
Sally Fuglsang
Anna Tayler
CRICOS Provider Code: 00586B
WHAT IS THE UNIT ABOUT?
Unit description*
The Vice Chancellor’s Leadership Award is designed to provide you with opportunities to
identify, further develop and articulate your leadership skills as critical components of the
employability profile you have developed during your time at UTAS. This unit will explore
key leadership development concepts and how these link to employability including:
leadership of self; valuing diversity, goal setting, vision building, team building, reflective
practice and creativity. Through participation in outward facing service activities and
individual and group reflective activities you will explore your own understandings of
leadership and have the opportunity to compare and contrast these with your peers.
Activities and assessment will support you to reflect on leadership and services experiences
you may have participated in during your degree as well as those you will participate in
during this unit, supporting you to identify and articulate these as evidence of your graduate
employability. You will also consider how leadership and service skills can be embedded into
your future professional and personal life. The unit requires a minimum of 30 hours of
community service or volunteering. The skills developed in this unit and the experiences
required for service will provide evidence of your enhanced employability.
This is the last year the Vice Chancellor’s Leadership Award will be taught as a unit. From
2017 the Award will only be granted as a culmination accolade as part of the Vice
Chancellor’s Leadership Program. Only students graduating in 2016 are eligible to enrol in
XLL301. All other students must enrol in a new unit that will be available in Semester 2, 2016
to register your interest click here.
Intended Learning Outcomes*
On completion of this unit, you will be able to:
1. Engage with a range of leadership development concepts to identify and articulate
your personal leadership goals and skills;
2. Provide evidence of ways your volunteer and service experiences have contributed
to your graduate employability;
3. Reflect on your perceptions of leadership and how these relate to other’s
perceptions;
4. Identify the skills you have developed through engagement in leadership and service
experiences during your degree; and
5. Identify leadership goals, experiences and further employability skills you can
develop through engagement with leadership and service activities after your
degree.
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HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED?*
Assessment schedule*
Assessment task
Date due
Percentage
By 5:00pm weighting
on
the
Friday of:
Links to Intended
Learning Outcomes
Assessment Task 1: Submission of
Weeks
Leadership
Development
Plan
2,3,4,9,11
Activities
5% (Pass/Fail)
1,2,3,4,5
Assessment Task 2: Reflective Piece
Week 5
15%
1,3,4,5
Assessment Task 3: Reflective Piece
Week 7
15%
1,3,5
Assessment Task 4:
Development Profile
Week 13
35%
1, 2, 4,5
Week 14
30% (Pass/Fail) 2,5
Assessment
Task
Experience portfolio
Leadership
5:
Service
Activities
Specific attendance/performance requirements*
Compulsory attendance is required for the following three seminars:
WEEK
DATE
BEGINNING
TOPIC/ MODULE/
FOCUS AREA
ACTIVITIES
ASSESSMENT DUE
COB FRIDAY
18 July
Leadership of
Self
Seminar
Goal Statement
1
6
15 August
Valuing
Diversity and
Seminar
Communication
Confirm Service
Activity
10
19
September
Creative
Thinking and
Leadership
2
Seminar
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