Course overview
This course will assist students to develop their own professional identity and provide students with an underlying communication and interpersonal skill base to effectively operate as a property professional. This course assists students to make foundation choices that will enhance their university experience and their early career. This course introduces students to the structure of the property industry and property profession and the diversity of career roles therein, providing them with the knowledge and skills to manage their own professional development in the field. Topics include: professional and effective communication skills; negotiation skills and interpersonal relationship development with a variety of property industry and property profession stakeholders; contemporary workplace issues in a property context, presentation design, delivery and written communication skills and self-assessment and reflection on professional skills and attributes.
Course learning outcomes
- Identify skills and knowledge relevant for a property professional, reflect on these and identify current levels of professional development.
- Demonstrate a professional orientation, take responsibility for their own learning and achievements, set career directions, identify development opportunities and create plans for their own professional development.
- Identify essential business communication and negotiation principles and skill, both autonomously and collaboratively, comparing and contrasting these in a variety of professional contexts.
- Apply written and presentation skills within a professional context to achieve focus, clarity and transparency.
- Identify the structure of the property industry and property profession and the roles of property professional societies and industry groups in maintaining ethical practice and high standards of conduct.
- Demonstrate UniSA Business Enterprise Skills in the context of the Property discipline: i) Self Management (intermediate level); and ii) Written Communication (foundation level).