School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Professional Engagement and Planning
  • Unit Code

    SBL2800
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Michelle GANDER

Description

Professional Engagement and Planning enables students to collaborate with industry partners and their peers on a client-based project. Projects will provide valuable insights into contemporary work and support students in developing and applying their discipline and professional skills. Students will also familiarise with graduate recruitment processes, identifying a short-term career plan and developing a suite of documents for graduate and internship opportunities. They will be guided and supporting in sourcing a professional practice capstone opportunity in preparation for SBL3800 Professional Practice. Recognition of Prior Learning will not be considered for this unit. Students with substantial course-related work experience and an established career profile can discuss the possibility of replacing the unit with their course coordinator.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

The unit may be delivered in summer session.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed SBL1800.

Incompatible Rule

SBL2105

Equivalent Rule

This unit is equivalent to SBL3500.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically describe short-term career goals.
  2. Develop recruitment documents and interview techniques to effectively communicate personal brand.
  3. Evaluate suitable capstone professional practice opportunities.
  4. Apply discipline skills and professional capabilities in an industry-based project.

Unit Content

  1. Career planning.
  2. Recruitment processes and documents, and interview techniques.
  3. Personal brand and networking.
  4. Researching and identifying suitable professional practice opportunities.
  5. Collaborative learning and giving, receiving and responding to feedback.
  6. Application of discipline and professional skills through an industry-based project

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 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 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

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
ReportRecruitment documents for career success 25%
Review ^Short-term Career Plan 25%
ProjectGroup project50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportRecruitment documents for career success 25%
Review ^Short-term Career Plan 25%
ProjectGroup project50%

^ 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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