Overview

This unit of study is a project-based unit in which students work in teams and directly with an industry partner. The unit aims to provide you with an authentic industry experience negotiating, designing, implementing and delivering a solution to a real industry problem, in a technology-related workplace. You might spend one to two days per week on-site with an industry partner working on a technology development project under the direction of a nominated industry host, while also developing your employability skills and awareness of work place practise. An academic 'facilitator' will guide your learning towards achieving these outcomes.

Requisites

Prerequisites

125 credit points

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Communicate within teams and stakeholders using appropriate verbal, written and technological approaches (A2, A5, A7)
  • Function as an effective team member and demonstrate an understanding of team dynamics (A5, A6, A7)
  • Demonstrate effective and professional public speaking skills for a range of audiences, including industry (A2, A3, A5)
  • Synthesis development of a professional development plan (K6)
  • Identify and apply suitable tools and techniques to solve organisation's problems in a real technology-related industry context (A5, K2, K3, K4, K5, S2, S3)
  • Demonstrate reflective practice, evaluating own performance in the workplace and demonstrate learning of new employability skills (A5, A6, K5, K6)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Seminar		1.00 12 weeks 12
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Other		1.00 12 weeks 12
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Workshop		2.00 12 weeks 24
Placement
Placement		8.00 10 weeks 80
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		1.83 12 weeks 22
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Project Demonstration/PresentationGroup 15 - 25% 1,2,3,6 
Project ReportGroup 15 - 25% 1,2,4,5 
Project ReportIndividual 35 - 45% 1,2,5 
Project: Refinement and Synthesis of Research, Project Brief and Project PlanIndividual 5 - 15% 1,4,5 
ReflectionIndividual 5 - 15% 4,6 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

(i) achieve an overall mark for the unit of 50% or more, and(ii) complete the project to an acceptable standard. A rubric will be used to determine if students have met the acceptable standard. The rubric is available on Canvas; andStudents who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirement (ii) and (iii) in full, will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.

Content

The internship project will generally involve:

  • Technical content in the selected major
  • Management Theory
  • Public Speaking
  • Team Dynamics
  • Employability Skills
  • Drawing connections between academic knowledge, practical application and critically reflect on this professional experience in relation to future practice.

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.