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 alongside a UTS undergraduate bachelor's degree.
Overview
Course aims
Career options
Course intended learning outcomes
Admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course diagram
Course program
Transfer between UTS courses
Other information
Overview
The Diploma in Innovation is unique to UTS. It was created in direct response to the industry demand for innovation graduates. The Diploma in Innovation develops the capabilities to collaborate across disciplines and sectors, to think big, and to innovate.
The Diploma is a 48 credit points qualification, half the credit points of most stand-alone bachelor's degrees. It is available to students undertaking almost any UTS bachelor degree, including double degrees. All the subjects are offred part-time over 3-week periods between the main teaching sessions (Autumn and Spring). This allows students to retains most of the holiday period AND to study the diploma in parallel with a core degree(s), thus completing two qualifications in the same time that it takes to complete one. Accelerated pathways through the diploma are also available.
Course aims
The Diploma draws heavily on industry partners who provide real challenges to work on, with NO exams. Diplomas subjects are also a popular option as electives, choice block or submajor. See dipinn.uts.edu.au for details and FAQs.
Overall, this course provides exposure to real-world problems, addressed in collaboration with a diverse group of students, academics and industry partners. This course helps put core courses into perspective while developing highly sought after capabilities to implement innovate solutions in an increasingly complex world.
Career options
This degree prepares for jobs that might not exist today, but emerge in forward-looking employers.
Career options include working in corporate innovation labs, community management, and venture capital, as well as becoming founders of startups, social enterprises, or non-profit organisations.
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, organisational, 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 multidisciplinary 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 multiple types of audiences |
| 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 with 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 (intrapreneurship) 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 |
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, the Bachelor of Technology and Innovation, or the Digital Creative Enterprise major are ineligible for simultaneous admission with the Diploma of Innovation.
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 in July and Summer sessions, 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 (each 8 credit points).
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 diagram
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 Navigating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Initiating Change | 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 Entrepreneurial Experimenting and Innovation Validation | 8cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 94658 Evaluating Portfolios of Innovative Opportunities | 8cp | |
| Summer commencing, part time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Summer session | ||
| 81539 Impossibilities to Possibilities | 8cp | |
| 81538 Frame Innovation | 8cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| July session | ||
| 94663 Navigating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Initiating Change | 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 Entrepreneurial Experimenting and Innovation Validation | 8cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 94658 Evaluating Portfolios of Innovative Opportunities | 8cp | |
Transfer between UTS courses
After completing 81539 and either 81540 or 81538, students may transfer to a combined degree with the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation, subject to achieving a minimum weighted average mark of 75 in this course and 65 in their primary degree. An internal course transfer is only available to students presently studying one of the core degrees that can be combined with the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Students can apply for an internal course transfer via My Student Admin.
Other information
Further information is available from:
UTS Student Centre
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or +61 2 9514 1222
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