22472VIC Certificate I in General Education for Adults

VU Polytechnic delivers the electives listed in the ‘course structure and units’ below. These electives have been selected based on industry needs, graduate pathways and/or student and teacher feedback. Alternative suitable electives are only available via Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Credit Transfer (CT).

• VU22384 - Develop and document a learning plan and portfolio

• VU22385 - Plan and undertake a project

• VU22386 - Engage with texts of limited complexity for personal purposes

• VU22387 - Engage with texts of limited complexity for learning purposes

• VU22389 - Engage with texts of limited complexity to participate in the community

• VU22391 - Create texts of limited complexity for personal purposes

• VU22392 - Create texts of limited complexity for learning purposes

• VU22394 - Create texts of limited complexity to participate in the community

• VU22395 - Work with a range of numbers and money in familiar and routine situations

• VU22396 - Work with and interpret directions in familiar and routine situations

• VU22397 - Work with measurement in familiar and routine situations

• VU22400 - Work with and interpret numerical information in familiar and routine texts

• BSBITU102 - Develop keyboard skills

• PUATEA001B - Work in a team

• VU22401 - Undertake a simple investigation of science in the community

• VU22402 - Undertake a simple investigation of health and well being

22472VIC Certificate I in General Education For Adults qualification learning outcomes are as follows:

Knowledge
Graduates at this level will have foundational knowledge for everyday life, further learning and preparation for initial work through knowledge:
- of the importance of documenting learning to support progress and factors which can support or hinder progress in learning;
- of different learning strategies and how they contribute to learning;
- that texts have different audiences and purposes;
- of reading strategies and features in a range of familiar and less familiar text types;
- of basic structural conventions of text types, and;
- that signs/prints/symbols represent meaning in familiar mathematical information.

Skills
Graduates at this level will have foundational cognitive and communication skills to:

- clarify project goals with an appropriate support person, plan, carry out, document and evaluate a project;
- develop, implement and review learning goals;

- read, interpret and evaluate familiar and less familiar texts;

- create a range of familiar and some less familiar texts with some specialised vocabulary;

- interpret, use, estimate and calculate a range of simple numerical information for immediate personal purposes and some less familiar contexts, and;

- use paper based and web based mediums to engage with and create texts of limited complexity.

Application of knowledge and skills
Graduates at this level will apply knowledge and skills to demonstrate autonomy in highly structured and stable contexts and within narrow parameters through:

- working to an agreed program to plan, implement and monitor progress towards achievement of learning goals;

- practical application of an agreed action plan in a project activity in a familiar and some less familiar contexts and/or around a specific content area of interest;

- interpreting and evaluating a range of familiar and less familiar text types of limited complexity in a range of familiar contexts;

- creating a range of familiar and less familiar paper based and web based texts of limited complexity related to different purposes, which may include some unfamiliar aspects, and;
- applies mathematical information and problem solving strategies in familiar contexts.