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

    Applications of Psychological Literacy
  • Unit Code

    PSY3225
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Bronwyn Alexis HARMAN

Description

Psychological literacy is the adaptive ability to apply psychology knowledge and skills. This unit enables students to become more psychologically literate as it is designed to be the culminating learning experience of the degree, by integrating the knowledge, skills and experience from previous studies in psychology and applying that to the world of work. The unit emphasizes the importance of values identification and clarification, knowing and being able to describe personal strengths and weaknesses, and ethical, values-based, reflexive and culturally appropriate practice.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate personal values, strengths, achievements, and psychological knowledge and skills to enhance employability.
  2. Investigate contemporary interventions and management of psychological concerns or conditions to propose evidence-based research.
  3. Evaluate current psychological approaches to a topic of social importance to inform the general public.

Unit Content

  1. Core value clarification, identification and evidencing of personal competencies, and the communication of these to employers and funding agencies.
  2. Ethical and values-based practice in research and with clients.
  3. Reflexive and culturally appropriate practice.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTargeted resume20%
AssignmentResearch proposal40%
PresentationOral presentation40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTargeted resume20%
AssignmentResearch proposal40%
PresentationOral presentation40%

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.

  • Unit Title

    Applications of Psychological Literacy
  • Unit Code

    PSY3225
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Bronwyn Alexis HARMAN

Description

Psychological literacy is the adaptive ability to apply psychology knowledge and skills. This unit enables students to become more psychologically literate as it is designed to be the culminating learning experience of the degree, by integrating the knowledge, skills and experience from previous studies in psychology and applying that to the world of work. The unit emphasizes the importance of values identification and clarification, knowing and being able to describe personal strengths and weaknesses, and ethical, values-based, reflexive and culturally appropriate practice.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate personal values, strengths, achievements, and psychological knowledge and skills to enhance employability.
  2. Investigate contemporary interventions and management of psychological concerns or conditions to propose evidence-based research.
  3. Evaluate current psychological approaches to a topic of social importance to inform the general public.

Unit Content

  1. Core value clarification, identification and evidencing of personal competencies, and the communication of these to employers and funding agencies.
  2. Ethical and values-based practice in research and with clients.
  3. Reflexive and culturally appropriate practice.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTargeted resume20%
AssignmentResearch proposal40%
PresentationOral presentation40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTargeted resume20%
AssignmentResearch proposal40%
PresentationOral presentation40%

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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