C20060v1 Diploma in Innovation
Award(s): Diploma in Innovation (DipInn)CRICOS code: 092521B
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 48
Course EFTSL: 1
Location: City campus
Notes
The Diploma in Innovation is not offered as a stand-alone degree and can only be undertaken in conjunction with an undergraduate bachelor's degree.
Overview
Course aims
Course intended learning outcomes
Career options
Admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Other information
Overview
The Diploma in Innovation is a new qualification created as a direct response to industry demand for graduates to work at the intersection of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Taking a transdisciplinary approach, the course engages students with open, complex and networked problems and in doing so, engenders attributes around complex systems thinking, creating value in problem solving and inquiry, imaginative and ethical citizenship and entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial skills as well as developing the ability to effectively employ inter- and transdisciplinary practices themselves. These attributes provide graduates with the ability to identify and develop solutions to some of the most complex issues that face their disciplines and society.
The Diploma in Innovation is taken concurrently with an undergraduate coursework degree program at UTS. The focus around creative intelligence and innovation and entrepreneurial knowledge, practices, perspectives and strategies drawn from a diverse range of discipline areas complements students' undergraduate studies.
The first of its kind in Australia, this course allows students to gain exposure to real-world problems and collaborate with a diverse group of students, academics and industry partners, consolidating the course aims in their chosen area of study while developing the creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship skills sought by government, employers and society alike.
Course aims
This course provides new opportunities for students to develop creative, transdisciplinary and entrepreneurial practices that build upon and extend their specialist study within their core degrees and enable them to scope and realise ideas that create social, cultural and/or financial value.
Students gain knowledge, skills, perspectives and strategies to address the open, complex and networked problems, challenges and opportunities in today's world. In particular, students develop high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to the development of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial outcomes.
Students are supported to become skilled opportunity developers and invent their own entrepreneurial career futures.
Course intended learning outcomes
| 1.1 | Identify and represent the components and processes within complex systems and organise them within relational frameworks. |
| 1.2 | Select, apply and evaluate various techniques and technologies for investigating and interpreting complex systems. |
| 2.1 | Explore the relevance and test the value of frameworks, approaches and methods from different disciplines, professional practices or fields of inquiry for gaining insights into particular problems, proposals, practices, contexts and systems. |
| 2.2 | Research and analyse problem situations or contexts from multiple disciplinary or personal perspectives to develop a deep understanding of the needs, interests and values of multiple stakeholders. |
| 2.3 | Integrate findings from research and problem/stakeholder/data analysis in creative and useful ways to generate a proposal. |
| 2.4 | Critically examine, test, appreciate and articulate the speculative or actual value of outcomes for different stakeholders, whether at a societal, organizational, community or individual level. |
| 3.1 | Communicate, explore, network and negotiate in ways that extend representation of disciplinary ideas or perspectives. |
| 3.2 | Design, develop and apply appropriate team-based decision making frameworks and participate collaboratively in teams according to proposed intentions. |
| 3.3 | Select and use a range of appropriate data, tools, techniques, technologies and methods creatively and critically in multi-disciplinary teams to discover, investigate, design, produce and communicate ideas or artefacts. |
| 3.4 | Articulate often-complex ideas simply, succinctly and compellingly to a diverse team or audience. |
| 4.1 | Identify significant issues, challenges or opportunities and assess potential to act creatively and ethically on them |
| 4.2 | Design and develop ideas, strategies and practices for betterment that engage with and respond respectfully, generatively and analytically to different ways of knowing across community and cultural contexts. |
| 4.3 | Interrogate and appreciate the ethical responsibilities related to social, legal and regulatory practices. |
| 4.4 | Make decisions that engage ethically and sensitively to the values of particular groups, communities, organisations or cultures. |
| 4.5 | Exercise good judgment in knowing when to take a leadership role, and when to enable leadership by others to address community, organisational or cultural issues, challenges and opportunities through innovation. |
| 5.1 | Imagine and design initiatives within existing organisational structures (intapreneurship) or design a new context for change (entrepreneurship) |
| 5.2 | Explore and articulate the transformation required to create and implement innovation, with sensitivity to the creative destruction that this requires |
| 5.3 | Identify required capabilities for realising an idea and create a venture team to achieve the aspirations of a particular innovation. |
| 5.4 | Communicate confidently and with diplomacy to influence essential stakeholders or decision makers and to achieve impact |
Career options
Career options include employment or self-employment in the commercial or not-for-profit sectors associated with students' chosen field of study and/or profession.
Admission requirements
Applicants for admission must satisfy the selection criteria as specified by the faculty.
Admission is only open to UTS undergraduate coursework students. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation or the Bachelor of Technology and Innovation are ineligible for admission.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: Academic IELTS: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL: paper based: 550-583 overall with TWE of 4.5, internet based: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64; or CAE: 176-184.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Course duration and attendance
This course is offered on a three-year, part time basis and must be taken concurrently with an undergraduate coursework degree program at UTS. Taught in intensive mode, study is undertaken at times outside of core degree requirements.
Course structure
Students must complete 48 credit points made up of 32 credit points of compulsory subjects and 16 credit points of electives.
Subjects are organised in two streams (each 24 credit points). The streams relate to the areas of creative intelligence, and innovation and entrepreneurship.
Course completion requirements
| STM91176 Creative Intelligence | 24cp | |
| STM91177 Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 24cp | |
| Total | 48cp |
Course program
A typical program is shown below.
| July commencing, part time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| July session | ||
| 81539 Impossibilities to Possibilities | 8cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| Select 8 credit points from the following: | 8cp | |
| 81540 Technology, Methods and Creative Practice | 8cp | |
| 81538 Frame Innovation | 8cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| July session | ||
| 94663 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Studio A | 8cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| Select 8 credit points from the following: | 8cp | |
| 94657 Futures Thinking: Making Futures | 8cp | |
| 94665 Complexity and Sustainability | 8cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| July session | ||
| 94662 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Studio B | 8cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 94658 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Studio C | 8cp | |
Other information
Further information is available from:
UTS Student Centre
telephone 1300 ask UTS (1300 275 887)
or +61 2 9514 1222
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