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.

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:

  • 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)
On-campus
Class
2.00 1 week 2
Online
Learning activities
0.92 26 weeks 24
TOTAL26

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssessmentIndividual 5 - 15% 
Oral PresentationIndividual 25 - 35% 3,4 
Preliminary PlanIndividual 10 - 20% 
ReflectionIndividual 30 - 40% 2,3,4 
Reflective PieceIndividual 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. 

 In this unit students will 

  • 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 Supervisor 

  • 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 skills 

  • be required to respond to feedback from stakeholders in ways that inform and improve future practice 

  • Undertake structured assessment will allow students the opportunity to illustrate 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.