Integrated Professional Placement A - Business
Overview
This unit aims to support students to develop their understanding of ‘learning about work’ and the discipline in practice; provide students with the opportunity to contextualise their university studies via learning from and within workplace experiences, and to develop broader professional skills such as communication, teamwork and self-management that inform, enhance and improve future practice; requires students to reflect on their professional placement experience to draw links with discipline knowledge and document the development and growth of their employability skills and capabilities. Students are provided with directed, experiential learning opportunities in the real-world context of their professional placement.
Requisites
Rules
Co-requisite
WEI20001 Work Experience in Industry A
Assumed Knowledge
Completion of the ‘Career Start’ module
Pre-requisite
150 cp and Approval of the Academic Unit
02-November-2025
31-May-2026
01-November-2026
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Independently apply disciplinary knowledge and methods to tasks within a supervised workplace context.
- Apply appropriate strategies for communicating, completing tasks, and relating well with others to make a contribution in a workplace.
- Enact ethical principles in the workplace context.
- Use critical reflective practices in WIL to clarify and pursue one's professional purpose
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-campus Lecture |
4.00 | 4 weeks | 4 |
| Online Learning activities |
0.92 | 26 weeks | 24 |
| TOTAL | 26 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Placement Portfolio | Individual | 0 | 1,2,3 |
| Placement Portfolio | Individual | 0 | 1,2,3,4 |
| Placement Portfolio | Individual | 0 | 2,4 |
| Placement Portfolio | Individual | 0 | 1,2,3,4 |
Content
This unit is undertaken concurrently with Work Experience in Industry A. Together the units provide supported work-based learning in a real-world context.
In this unit students will:
- work in the industry or community placement to which they are assigned, under the supervision of their Industry Supervisor
- with guidance from a discipline-specific Swinburne Academic Supervisor, reflect on their professional placement experience to draw links with discipline knowledge and document the development and growth of their employability skills
- be required to respond to feedback from stakeholders in ways that inform and improve future practice
- undertake structured learning activities to allow students the opportunity to identify and measure learning and to share experiences for a variety of audiences
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.