School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Self Development 1
  • Unit Code

    COU1102
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Karen J Janine ANDERSON

Description

This unit is conducted in the form of a self-development group which offers each student the opportunity to experience and explore personal/professional and interpersonal issues. The purpose of the group is to develop the students' awareness and ability to engage personally and inter-personally within an experiential group situation. The unit provides a safe, confidential space to explore and examine students personal attitudes, views, assumptions and interpersonal issues. The practical rationale for the self-development group is to enable students to begin to recognise and appreciate the ways in which their personal concerns may impact on their interpersonal communication skills. Due to the experiential group method and requirement for active participation in this unit, new enrolments are not accepted after the end of the first week of the semester.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU0102, COU5112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the link between their ability to self-reflect and its influence on their capacity to counsel.
  2. Demonstrate an increase in the ability to reflect on their personal issues.
  3. Demonstrate their serious, on-going commitment to work openly and constructively in the group.
  4. Discuss the crucial connection between personal issues and professional development.

Unit Content

  1. Develop a capacity to work reflectively.
  2. Develop a critical awareness of the conditions of confidentiality and the role confidentiality plays within the counselling field.
  3. Develop an appreciation of the need for self awareness as an essential part of developing good interpersonal and communication skills.
  4. Develop an awareness of political, social, cultural, and ethical issues and contexts.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ParticipationGroup exercises and activities
JournalReflective journal
ONLINE
TypeDescription
ParticipationGroup exercises and activities
JournalReflective journal

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Self Development 1
  • Unit Code

    COU1102
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Karen J Janine ANDERSON

Description

This unit is conducted in the form of a self-development group which offers each student the opportunity to experience and explore personal/professional and interpersonal issues. The purpose of the group is to develop the students' awareness and ability to engage personally and inter-personally within an experiential group situation. The unit provides a safe, confidential space to explore and examine students personal attitudes, views, assumptions and interpersonal issues. The practical rationale for the self-development group is to enable students to begin to recognise and appreciate the ways in which their personal concerns may impact on their interpersonal communication skills. Due to the experiential group method and requirement for active participation in this unit, new enrolments are not accepted after the end of the first week of the semester.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU0102, COU5112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the link between their ability to self-reflect and its influence on their capacity to counsel.
  2. Demonstrate an increase in the ability to reflect on their personal issues.
  3. Demonstrate their serious, on-going commitment to work openly and constructively in the group.
  4. Discuss the crucial connection between personal issues and professional development.

Unit Content

  1. Develop a capacity to work reflectively.
  2. Develop a critical awareness of the conditions of confidentiality and the role confidentiality plays within the counselling field.
  3. Develop an appreciation of the need for self awareness as an essential part of developing good interpersonal and communication skills.
  4. Develop an awareness of political, social, cultural, and ethical issues and contexts.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ParticipationGroup exercises and activities
JournalReflective journal
ONLINE
TypeDescription
ParticipationGroup exercises and activities
JournalReflective journal

Core Reading(s)

  • Johns, H. (2012). Personal development in counsellor training. (2nd ed.). London: Sage Publications. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/756280942
  • Ingrams, J. (2012). Thinking of becoming a counsellor? (pp. xiv, 162). London: Karnac. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/777375524

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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