Integrated Professional Placement B - Business
Overview
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. Building on Integrated Professional Placement A, students have the opportunity to contextualise their university studies in practice, reflecting on and learning from workplace experiences and documenting their professional development. Students develop broader professional skills such as complex problem solving, research and analysis, and adaptability and ability to understand, interact and respond to ideas and people of different work contexts and backgrounds.
Requisites
26-May-2024
27-October-2024
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Re-negotiate objectives of the placement, reflect on career expectations and demonstrate professional growth
- Demonstrate professional communication for a range of audiences, including for discipline-specific industry
- Reflect on work throughout the placement, evaluate own performance and demonstrate learning for improved practice
- Link disciplinary knowledge and skills taught at university to real-world application(s)
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
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On-campus Class | 2.00 | 1 week | 2 |
Online Learning activities | 0.92 | 26 weeks | 24 |
TOTAL | 26 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
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Assessment | Individual | 5 - 15% | 3 |
Oral Presentation | Individual | 25 - 35% | 3,4 |
Preliminary Plan | Individual | 10 - 20% | 1 |
Reflection | Individual | 30 - 40% | 2,3,4 |
Reflective Piece | Individual | 5 - 15% | 1,3 |
Content
This unit is undertaken concurrently with Work Experience in Industry B. Together the units provide supported work-based learning in a real-world context.Â
 In this unit students willÂ
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build on the previous units of study to continue work in the industry or community placement to which they are assigned, under the supervision of their Industry SupervisorÂ
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with guidance from a discipline-specific Swinburne Academic Supervisor, reflect on their professional placement experience to draw links with discipline knowledge and evidence the development and growth of their employability skillsÂ
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be required to respond to feedback from stakeholders in ways that inform and improve future practiceÂ
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Undertake structured assessment will allow students the opportunity to illustrate and measure learning and to share experiences for a variety of audiencesÂ
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.