Volunteer Experience in I.T.

The purpose of this subject is to enable students who have completed voluntary external programming, systems/software or schools-based work during their course, that has not received credit elsewhere, to receive credit for this volunteer experience through the development of a retrospective and reflective portfolio of the experience and their work outcomes. This is to encourage students to take on volunteer work and for students to reflect on their experience, such as in open source projects or school volunteering. Students must seek subject coordinator approval to enrol in the subject and must contact subject coordinator before week 1 to discuss enrolment. Students must identify their own volunteer experience and have completed this experience before the semester begins. Students who have completed significant volunteer experience or open-source contributions, in an information technology or information systems capacity, not undertaken within an MSE organised internship, cannot receive credit for this subject. To participate in this subject, a student must first demonstrate completion of one of the following: 1. Software: Unpaid development of publicly available, open source, based on an extracurricular or independent activity, including working on a volunteer basis with a non-profit organisation