School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Self Development 2
  • Unit Code

    COU3102
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Sasha FAZIO

Description

This unit is conducted in the form of small self-development groups which offer each student the opportunity to experience and explore personal/professional and interpersonal issues. The purpose of the group process is to augment and strengthen the student's 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 2 group process is to reinforce students' understanding and appreciation of the ways in which their personal concerns may impact on their interpersonal communication and professional counselling 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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from COU1102

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded COU0105, COU5105

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Express a wider concern for, and a deeper awareness of the crucial connection between appropriate interpersonal communication, their personal issues and their professional development.
  2. Discuss their understanding of the significance of group processes.
  3. Articulate a deeper self-reflective awareness of their personal issues and concerns.
  4. Demonstrate their capacity to both offer and receive feedback in the spirit of open communication, to and from other members of the group.

Unit Content

  1. Self awareness is an essential part of developing good interpersonal and communication skills.
  2. The conditions of confidentiality and the role confidentiality plays within the counselling field.
  3. Political, social, cultural, and ethical issues and contexts.
  4. Actively participate, contribute and reflect within a group process.
  5. Personal career directions and development.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

In the on-campus mode, students are required to attend the weekly lecture and actively participate in small and larger self development group processes and activities on a weekly basis in class time. In the off-campus mode, the unit is interactive with requirements for active weekly contributions to small self development groups using Discussion Board. Interaction is therefore not conducted in 'real time'.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Journal ^Self development learning journal including summary essay
Participation ^Group exercises and activities
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Journal ^Self development learning journal including summary essay
Participation ^Group exercises and activities

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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