Integrated Professional Placement A - Business
Overview
This unit aims to support students to develop their understanding of ‘learning about work’ and the discipline in practice; provide students with the opportunity to contextualise their university studies via learning from and within workplace experiences, and to develop broader professional skills such as communication, teamwork and self-management that inform, enhance and improve future practice; requires students to reflect on their professional placement experience to draw links with discipline knowledge and document the development and growth of their employability skills. Students are provided with directed, experiential learning opportunities in the real-world context of their professional placement.
Requisites
27-October-2024
01-June-2025
02-November-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Negotiate objectives and contrast perceptions of your discipline studies while at university with the realities of industry practice
- Demonstrate effective communication for a range of audiences
- Reflect throughout the placement and self-evaluate own performance and learning for improved practice
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Online Lecture | 2.00 | 1 week | 2 |
| Online Learning activities | 0.92 | 26 weeks | 24 |
| TOTAL | 26 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Assignment | Individual | 5 - 15% | 2 |
| Preliminary Plan | Individual | 5 - 15% | 1 |
| Reflection | Individual | 10 - 20% | 2,3 |
| Reflection | Individual | 30 - 40% | 2,3 |
| Reflection | Individual | 25 - 35% | 1,2,3 |
Content
This unit is undertaken concurrently with Work Experience in Industry A. Together the units provide supported work-based learning in a real-world context. Â
 In this unit students willÂ
- work in the industry or community placement to which they are assigned, under the supervision of their Industry SupervisorÂ
- with guidance from a discipline-specific Swinburne Academic Supervisor, reflect on their professional placement experience to draw links with discipline knowledge and document the development and growth of their employability skillsÂ
- be required to respond to feedback from stakeholders in ways that inform and improve future practiceÂ
- undertake structured learning activities to allow students the opportunity to identify and measure learning and to share experiences for a variety of audiences
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.