Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Jennifer Ruskin
Contact via Contact via email
3 Innovation Rd, Level 1
Tuesdays, 12-1pm, by appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to BActStudBProfPrac or BComProfAccgBProfPrac
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit offers an introduction to professional practice. Students will have opportunities to develop fundamental workplace skills, including communication, teamwork, decision-making, networking and reflective practice. Students will reflect on their personal attributes, values and skills, engage in career planning and goal setting, as well as exploring industries, organisations and/or occupations. The unit is designed to help students begin to develop an understanding of their professional identity and the changing nature of work. The unit will provide a foundation for students to complete a successful practical experience in a workplace as part of their studies. While students admitted to the Bachelor of Professional Practice have enrolment priority for this unit, a limited number of spaces are open to students enrolled in other degrees.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
The tasks listed here are summaries. In order to complete the assessment tasks, you will need to review the full instructions on iLearn.
No extensions will be granted. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded marks for each 24-hour period or part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in submission - 20% penalty). This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for special consideration is made and approved.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Skill assessment & reflection | 25% | No | Week 5 |
Career path research report | 35% | No | Week 10 |
Skills seminar | 40% | No | Weeks 9 and 11-13 |
Seminar participation | 0% | Yes | Weeks 1-13 |
Due: Week 5
Weighting: 25%
To complete the skills self-assessment and reflection, you will need to:
Due: Week 10
Weighting: 35%
Drawing on at least 8 sources, including a combination of primary and secondary resources, you will write a report exploring:
Due: Weeks 9 and 11-13
Weighting: 40%
Working with a team, you will select a skill area you have identified for your professional development (assessment task 1). Drawing on academic and non-academic sources, and based on a flipped classroom model, you will work with your team to design and facilitate an approximately 40-minute seminar to engage your peers in developing the professional skill. You will need to:
Due: Weeks 1-13
Weighting: 0%
This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
Participation and engagement in face-to-face seminars is critical to support learning in this unit, and as such, is compulsory. This is designed to support development of professional practice skills consistent with the fitness-to-practice standards of the Bachelor of Professional Practice.
PROF101 is offered in a flipped classroom environment. This means students are expected to review and engage with materials on iLearn each week in advance of the seminar. This enables face-to-face time to focus on discussion, activities, reflection and workshops. Preparation materials including readings and videos are located in the relevant week on iLearn.
All seminars take place in 23 Wally's Walk, tutorial room 204.
Week 1 | Welcome, introduction |
Week 2 | Organisational structure |
Week 3 | Organisational culture |
Week 4 | Attributes and skills |
Week 5 | Values |
Week 6 | Ethics |
Week 7 | Sustainability |
Week 8 | Teamwork |
Week 9 | Decision-making |
Week 10 | Communication |
Week 11 | Reflection |
Week 12 | Goal setting |
Week 13 | Career planning |
For Co-op students, there are additional, compulsory partner visits which will serve as primary research for the Career path research report. You will be advised of the times, dates and locations of these visits separately.
Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central). Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
Undergraduate students seeking more policy resources can visit the Student Policy Gateway (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/student-policy-gateway). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.
If you would like to see all the policies relevant to Learning and Teaching visit Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central).
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/getting-started/student-conduct
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Our graduates will also be capable of creative thinking and of creating knowledge. They will be imaginative and open to experience and capable of innovation at work and in the community. We want them to be engaged in applying their critical, creative thinking.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want our graduates to have emotional intelligence and sound interpersonal skills and to demonstrate discernment and common sense in their professional and personal judgement. They will exercise initiative as needed. They will be capable of risk assessment, and be able to handle ambiguity and complexity, enabling them to be adaptable in diverse and changing environments.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our graduates will have enquiring minds and a literate curiosity which will lead them to pursue knowledge for its own sake. They will continue to pursue learning in their careers and as they participate in the world. They will be capable of reflecting on their experiences and relationships with others and the environment, learning from them, and growing - personally, professionally and socially.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want our graduates to be capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and to integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments; to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations; to be able to think independently and systemically in relation to scholarly activity, in the workplace, and in the world. We want them to have a level of scientific and information technology literacy.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our graduates should be capable of researching; of analysing, and interpreting and assessing data and information in various forms; of drawing connections across fields of knowledge; and they should be able to relate their knowledge to complex situations at work or in the world, in order to diagnose and solve problems. We want them to have the confidence to take the initiative in doing so, within an awareness of their own limitations.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want to develop in our students the ability to communicate and convey their views in forms effective with different audiences. We want our graduates to take with them the capability to read, listen, question, gather and evaluate information resources in a variety of formats, assess, write clearly, speak effectively, and to use visual communication and communication technologies as appropriate.
This graduate capability is supported by: