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Unit of Study COM00471 - Professional Placement (2014)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    192 credit points in any SCU units

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Students spend 70-100 hours in an appropriate organisation using knowledge and skills acquired in their undergraduate degree. Students undergo workplace supervision thereby gaining an understanding of how their skills and knowledge can be applied in professional environments.

Unit content

  • Developing working relationships
  • Organisational structures, goals, culture and change
  • Professional goals and job readiness
  • Contemporary workplaces
  • National and regional operational differences
  • Workplace participation and evaluation

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online Session 1,  2,  3 Session 1,  2,  2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 identify and evaluate workplace processes, protocols and practices
2 professionally apply knowledge and skills gained from SCU within an organisational context specific to the student's discipline
3 understand professional presentation specific to the student's discipline
4 critically analyse and discuss the specific placement undertaken in the context of relevant practices and frameworks.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. identify and evaluate workplace processes, protocols and practices
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  2. professionally apply knowledge and skills gained from SCU within an organisational context specific to the student's discipline
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  3. understand professional presentation specific to the student's discipline
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  4. critically analyse and discuss the specific placement undertaken in the context of relevant practices and frameworks.
    • GA3:
    • GA4:

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