School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Extended Professional Practice
  • Unit Code

    SBL3102
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kim FEDDEMA

Description

In this third unit in the Major in Professional Practice, students will continue their professional practice experience and complete a minimum of 225 hours of supported learning in a work setting. Students will further develop discipline skills and knowledge and professional capabilities prioritised in their targeted profession. Through structured reflective activities and assessment tasks, students will build their skills in career self-management and appraise personal development needs. They will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to complete workplace tasks and build their professional networks.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed SBL2105 and completed 180 credit points.

Incompatible Rule

Incompatible with SBL3800

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply a broad range of high-level professional capabilities to successfully achieve designated outcomes in a work setting.
  2. Reflect on work practices and achievements to inform recruitment documentation and professional profile.
  3. Think creatively and critically to generate innovative solutions to solve business issues.

Unit Content

  1. Application of discipline and non-technical skills in a professional setting.
  2. Career planning for professional success.
  3. Communication with internal and external stakeholders in a work environment.
  4. Completion of at least 225 hours of internship in an approved, professional environment
  5. Initiate, plan and execute consultancy tasks.

Learning Experience

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students must complete a minimum of 225 hours of supported and semi-structured learning in a professional setting, typically organised as 15 to 20 hours per week during the semester period. Students should maintain regular contact with their Unit Coordinator/Lecturer and participate in collaborative sessions with student peers. There will be ongoing liaison between the Unit Coordinator/Lecturer, student and workplace supervisor to support effective workplace performance. Students are expected to be proactive in producing tangible workplace outcomes, seeking support where needed and identifying personal development needs.

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
ProjectConsultancy Project60%
Reflective PracticeCareer Management Review40%

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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