Integrated Professional Placement B - Design
Duration
- One Semester
Contact hours
- Full-time
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2023 teaching periods
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
DDD20031 Integrated Professional Placement A - DesignAims and objectives
Offered from 2017
This unit runs concurrently with Work Experience in Industry B.
The aim of this unit is to provide students with a second six months of directed, experiential learning opportunities in the real-world context of their professional placement.
The unit aims to provide students with an opportunity to plan for a future career that focuses on ‘learning to work’.
The aim of the unit is to provide students with the opportunity to contextualise their university studies in practice, reflecting on and learning from workplace experiences, and developing broader professional skills such as creativity, innovation and leadership.
Throughout the unit students will further develop a portfolio (collection of evidence) of the employability skills they have developed during their work placement.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Identify possible future career paths.
2. Work individually and as part of a team with some autonomy and independence.
3. Demonstrate effective communication for a range of audiences.
4. Reflect on significant incident/s in the workplace for developing existing discipline knowledge and skills.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
24 hours (approximately 2 hours per week outside of employment time)
A guided, personal enquiry approach will be adopted. A combination of online independent learning tasks and web-based resources will support student learning, and students are expected to spend at least 1.5 hours per week online with discussion boards, blogs, readings and learning activities. Student learning will also be supported through regular contact with the Academic Supervisor.
Assessment
| Assessment Task | Weighting | ULO |
| Redefine Placement Development Plan (500 words) | 20% | 1,2 |
| Presentation | 30% | 3 |
| Portfolio (2000 words) | 50% | 4 |
General skills outcomes
problem solving skills
analysis skills
communication skills
Content
While the learning activity is undertaken in the professional placement industry or community to which the student has been assigned, the objectives of this unit are educational not commercial.
Under the supervision of an Academic Supervisor, students will reflect on their professional placement experience to draw links with discipline knowledge and document the development and growth of their employability skills. Students will be required to respond to feedback from stakeholders in ways that inform and improve future practice. Structured learning activities and assessment tasks that allow students the opportunity to illustrate and measure learning and to share experience for a variety of audiences will be of importance.
Students will be offered a blended learning approach to their learning that will include online independent learning activities and readings, some of which will align to summative assessments. The online activities provide students with the opportunity to engage with other Professional Placement students in order to form a community of peer learning such as sharing knowledge, experiences, offering and receiving constructive feedback and advice.
Study resources
- References.