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Students will complete a minimum of 80 hours of professional practice in their major or chosen career area, taking significant responsibility for their own learning outcomes. During the 80 hours, students will be immersed into professional life, actively engaging with industry/community partners and applying their discipline learning and professional skills in a meaningful way. Examples of professional practice could be an internship, client-based project, consultancy, service learning, simulated practice, competition, or combination of. Students will reflect on their professional practice to inform their longer-term career planning and professional development. Students are responsible for sourcing their own professional practice opportunity, with the support of the School of Business and Law’s Work Integrated Learning (WIL) team. All opportunities are vetted to ensure they can provide a meaningful learning experience. Recognition of Prior Learning will not be considered for this unit.
This unit runs over a full year, giving students time to complete their professional practice when it suits them and their industry/community partner. Students can commence in either early February and complete by the end of December (Cycle 4, 23F), or commence on 1 July and complete by 30 June the following year (Cycle 6, 23SY)’
Students must have completed a minimum of 180 credit points and passed either SBL2800 or SPM2104 before enrolling into this unit.
SBL3102
Unit is equivalent to FBL3501 Business Practicum
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
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.
The unit requires students to complete a minimum of 80 hours of meaningful professional practice that exposes them to contemporary work and enables them to practically apply their discipline learning and professional skills. Professional practice may occur virtually, in a workplace, or a combination of both. Students will need to complete the relevant risk management documentation and maintain regular contact with their Unit Coordinator/Lecturer via email, phone and/or collaborative sessions. Students will be expected to effectively perform in professional practice to meet the needs of their partner organisation, as well as complete the unit's assessment requirements. Students are expected to work autonomously, show initiative and generate ideas relating to their assigned tasks. Industry/community partners and the unit coordinator will liaise on student progress towards achieving learning outcomes during the professional practice period.
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.
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Report | Professional Practice Learning Plan |
| Report ^ | Professional Practice Report |
| Reflective Practice | Professional Practice Reflection and Career Action plan |
^ Mandatory to Pass
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.
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.
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:
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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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