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. Students are provided with directed, experiential learning opportunities in the real-world context of their professional placement.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Negotiate objectives and contrast perceptions of your discipline studies while at university with the realities of industry practice
  • Demonstrate effective communication for a range of audiences
  • Reflect throughout the placement and self-evaluate own performance and learning for improved practice

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture
2.00 1 week 2
Online
Learning activities
0.92 26 weeks 24
TOTAL26

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Online AssignmentIndividual 5 - 15% 
Preliminary PlanIndividual 5 - 15% 
ReflectionIndividual 10 - 20% 2,3 
ReflectionIndividual 30 - 40% 2,3 
ReflectionIndividual 25 - 35% 1,2,3 

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.