Learning by Doing in a Disruptive World
BEL’s Employability Capstone course for final year students
Two-week intensive
November - December 2024
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Final-year BEL students
Cap-off your degree with a transformative learning experience that’s more like work and less like uni. Get ready for the world of work with PBEL3000: Learning by Doing in a Disruptive World.
About the course
It’s time to use everything you’ve learned at university and apply it during the Faculty's two-week intensive Employability Capstone, 'Learning by Doing in a Disruptive World (PBEL3000)'.
During this course – designed exclusively for students in their final year – you'll collaborate with students from other disciplines to solve real and complex problems for an industry partner such as Orange Sky, Surf Life Saving Australia or Suncorp.
This bespoke transdisciplinary experience was designed in collaboration with students, staff, alumni, and industry to ensure participants develop employability skills desired in the industry.
By integrating your knowledge in this practical context you will:
- work with a range of stakeholders in a professional business environment
- develop the confidence to tackle rapidly developing challenges
- walk away with academic credit in the space of two weeks instead of thirteen, and
- discover a new quality experience to add to your CV.
Read the course description or check out the program for further details.
"I recommend this course to other students because this course has applications in real-world circumstances, which I have not encountered in other courses."
– Wang Shen (Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)/Commerce)
Six reasons to choose the BEL Employability Capstone course
1. Develop an entrepreneurial mindset
2. Gain the skills and confidence to hit the ground running in your career
3. Build employability and job-readiness
4. Make connections and build your professional network
5. Learn how to give, receive and use feedback
6. Boost course credit over the break
Find out why students and staff recommend the course
Students and staff talk about their experience with the BEL Employability Capstone course from UQ Business, Economics and Law.
How to apply
Applications for 2024 have now closed.
Eligibility: You must be a BEL undergraduate student in your final year of study with room for a general elective in your program. The course is available in-person. Check out the FAQs below or contact employability@bel.uq.edu.au if you have more questions.
Application Process: The BEL Employability Capstone course is by application only. To apply, you must complete the online form, including a link to a 1-minute video outlining the skills and attributes you will bring to the group. This can be as simple as a video recording from your phone, we do not require you to have a professionally edited video.
Learning by Doing mirrors the real world in that it will challenge students like they would be in the workplace, they’ll be forced to adapt to challenges as they arise and ready to take on the rapidly-changing 21st century work environment.
- Aimee Griffin, CreateAthon student staff partner
Course Information
Program
This course requires you to attend in-person classes from 9am–4pm Monday to Friday.
Day | Daily workshop | Activities |
Day 1 | Thinking differently about problems | Virtual site visit at industry partner HQ, teamwork and team feedback. |
Day 2 | Evaluating solutions | Guest seminar (Finding, using and organising data), teamwork and individual reflection. |
Day 3 | Ensuring solution-problem fit | Teamwork and feedback. |
Day 4 | Independent project work | Guest seminar (Pitching), teamwork and individual reflection. |
Day 5 | Gathering stakeholder feedback | Teamwork. Assessment: Pitching proposed solutions to the industry partner. |
Weekend break | ||
Day 6 | Understanding business interdependencies | Teamwork and individual reflection. |
Day 7 | Creating a transition plan | Teamwork and feedback. |
Day 8 | Persuading key stakeholders | Seminar, teamwork and individual reflection. |
Day 9 | N/A | Teamwork and feedback. |
Day 10 | N/A | Teamwork and individual reflection. Assessment: Pitching proposed solutions to the industry partner. |
How the course was developed
At UQ, we strive to ensure our students are at the forefront of everything we do. We want you to feel empowered to tackle challenges of all sizes, think like entrepreneurs and learn skills that will help create long-lasting and positive change in the world.
We held a ‘CreateAthon’, where more than 80 students, staff, alumni, industry and partners came together to ideate and co-create a new learning experience for students, which was how the BEL Faculty Employability Capstone course was born.
It took another nine months of hard work to transform these ideas into the BEL Faculty’s first work-integrated learning capstone course, ‘Learning by Doing in a Disruptive World’. This included consultation with world-renowned experts to develop assessment modules and securing Suncorp as our corporate partner. Read the full CreateAthon story.
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