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.

  • Unit Title

    Criminology and Justice Capstone Experience
  • Unit Code

    CRI6460
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    40
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Pamela HENRY

Description

This unit provides students with a capstone experience where knowledge gained in all units in the Master of Criminology and Justice is drawn upon. Students select a contemporary issue, emerging trend, or workplace problem provided by a specialist business area in criminology and justice and develop and design a best practice solution for implementation. Students implement the solution and gather evidence to determine its effect and report back to the relevant business unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must complete 200 credit points in their current course of study before attempting this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate published research, grey literature and theory relating to a contemporary issue, emerging trend, or workplace problem in criminology and justice to identify what is currently known about the issue, trend, or workplace problem and solutions to the issue, trend, or workplace problem.
  2. Collaborate to develop and implement a solution to a contemporary issue, emerging trend, or workplace problem specific to a specialist area in criminology and justice.
  3. Critically reflect upon findings evidencing the effect of the implemented solution in the relevant area of professional practice.
  4. Use high level self-management skills to initiate, plan and implement a substantial project.

Unit Content

  1. Critical analysis of an identified workplace or criminology and justice problem.
  2. Review of literature informing understanding of workplace problem or criminology and justice issue.
  3. Development of an evidence informed intervention addressing the workplace problem or criminology and justice issue.
  4. Proposal to gather evidence informing the effect of the intervention.
  5. Implementation of the evidence informed intervention.
  6. Documenting outcomes.

Learning Experience

WIL - Project

Students undertake an activity in collaboration or consultation with an industry partner but do not spend any time or only a very small amount of time  (e.g. 1-2 short visits) in an actual workplace.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will identify a contemporary issue, emerging trend, or workplace problem specific to a specialist area in criminology and justice and develop and design a best practice solution for implementation in collaboration with an industry partner.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch proposal30%
ReportIndustry report40%
AssignmentCommunication of findings for a professional or academic publication30%

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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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.

  • Unit Title

    Criminology and Justice Capstone Experience
  • Unit Code

    CRI6460
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    40
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Pamela HENRY

Description

This unit provides students with a capstone experience where knowledge gained in all units in the Master of Criminology and Justice is drawn upon. Students select a contemporary issue, emerging trend, or workplace problem provided by a specialist business area in criminology and justice and develop and design a best practice solution for implementation. Students implement the solution and gather evidence to determine its effect and report back to the relevant business unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must complete 200 credit points in their current course of study before attempting this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate published research, grey literature and theory relating to a contemporary issue, emerging trend, or workplace problem in criminology and justice to identify what is currently known about the issue, trend, or workplace problem and solutions to the issue, trend, or workplace problem.
  2. Collaborate to develop and implement a solution to a contemporary issue, emerging trend, or workplace problem specific to a specialist area in criminology and justice.
  3. Critically reflect upon findings evidencing the effect of the implemented solution in the relevant area of professional practice.
  4. Use high level self-management skills to initiate, plan and implement a substantial project.

Unit Content

  1. Critical analysis of an identified workplace or criminology and justice problem.
  2. Review of literature informing understanding of workplace problem or criminology and justice issue.
  3. Development of an evidence informed intervention addressing the workplace problem or criminology and justice issue.
  4. Proposal to gather evidence informing the effect of the intervention.
  5. Implementation of the evidence informed intervention.
  6. Documenting outcomes.

Learning Experience

WIL - Project

Students undertake an activity in collaboration or consultation with an industry partner but do not spend any time or only a very small amount of time  (e.g. 1-2 short visits) in an actual workplace.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will identify a contemporary issue, emerging trend, or workplace problem specific to a specialist area in criminology and justice and develop and design a best practice solution for implementation in collaboration with an industry partner.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch proposal30%
ReportIndustry report40%
AssignmentCommunication of findings for a professional or academic publication30%

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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