Delivery mode
On Campus / Offline
Teaching period
Semester 2
Types of assessment
Online exam, Take-home exam, Comments on online readings, Quizzes, 1 assignment, simulation game
What does this subject cover?
Types of construction contracts, Australian Standards in making contracts, terminologies used in contract, contract analysis, procurement simulation game.
What to do?
Record the quizzes’ questions as they will be the online take home exam’s questions.
Apart from achieving high rank in the simulation games’ standing, be active in the simulation game’s group as the mark will partly depend on the contributions in group discussions during tutorial.
Contract analysis is used for doing the assignment, try to use the classes’ material and the Australian Standards as much as possible to do the analysis, the wider the scope of the analysis is better, not necessarily to be deep, and get used to the assignment question as the exam will have the same type of question.
Just put whatever you think in the readings’ commenting tasks, the mark is hugely attributed from the quantity not the quality.
All in all, this is an easy H1 subject, 10 people that I know taking this subject achieved that grade. For engineering students without any prior contract exposure, it’ll need quite some times to adapt to the terminologies because it’s like studying law but once you get used to it, it’s addictive!
What NOT to do?
Failing the assignment and exam as both contribute to 70% of the final mark, not respecting the rubric as the lecturers are strict (like most of the lecturers in the university), putting grammar error writings (use the grammar error checking app!).
What prior knowledge do I need?
Good english, that’s all 😎
Why should I choose this subject?
Great for construction engineer in early career stage to have knowledge on contract building process, good for engineers from other disciplines to have a grasp of the basic of contracts.