Course Coordinator:Lynlea Small (lsmall1@usc.edu.au) School:School of Business and Creative Industries
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus. |
Please go to usc.edu.au for up to date information on the
teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
This Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course is designed to enhance your professional networking skills and employability. It provides an opportunity for you to experience the workplace and work in your chosen profession. You will apply the knowledge and skills gained from your university studies to workplace tasks and activities and reflect upon and evaluate your workplace experiences. You will learn how to set, monitor and evaluate goals, understand the meanings of culture and equity in the workplace, examine how theory intersects with practice, and deliver a presentation showcasing your achievements. You must perform satisfactorily in all assessment tasks and complete a minimum 96 hours of vocational placement to pass this course.
Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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Placement – Weekly (one day) placement with an industry host business ordinarily. Can be negotiated between host and USC. | 96hrs | Week 1 | Once Only |
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Placement – Weekly (one day) placement with an industry host business ordinarily. Can be negotiated between host and USC. | 96hrs | Week 1 | Once Only |
300 Level (Graduate)
12 units
Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Mapping Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | Professional Standard Mapping * Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business | |
1 | Apply theoretical knowledge to practical and professional situations. | Knowledgeable |
PC3, PC3.1, PC6, PC6.2 |
2 | Participate and reflect on the culture and professional expectations of the workplace and industry. | Ethical |
PC4, PC4.1, PC5, PC6, PC6.1 |
3 | Reflect on the relationship between the internship and your growth as a professional practitioner and develop improvement strategies. | Creative and critical thinker |
PC2.1, PC6, PC6.1 |
4 | Collaborate with responsibility and accountability with an industry partner to design, coordinate and implement a project or complete work activities. | Engaged |
PC2, PC2.1, PC3, PC3.1 |
5 | Demonstrate effective communication skills in project management, problem solving, and presentation. | Engaged |
PC1, PC1.1, PC1.2, PC1.3 |
CODE | COMPETENCY |
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business | |
PC1 | Communication |
PC1.1 | Written Communication |
PC1.2 | Oral Communication |
PC1.3 | Digital Literacy |
PC2 | Collaboration |
PC2.1 | Teamwork |
PC3 | Creative and Critical Thinking |
PC3.1 | Problem Solving |
PC4 | Community Consciousness |
PC4.1 | Social Responsibility and Sustainability |
PC5 | Cultural Awareness |
PC6 | Career-ready |
PC6.1 | Self-management |
PC6.2 | Discipline Knowledge |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Successful completion of 192 units. Permission is required for enrolment - please contact the Course Coordinator.
Not applicable
BUS331, CMN312, CMN316 and CMN313
Not applicable
Limited Grading (PNP)
Early feedback will be provided within Task 2.
Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
All | 1 | Code of Conduct | Individual | Throughout placement |
Week 1 | SONIA |
All | 2 | Written Piece | Individual | 1500 words |
Week 4 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All | 3 | Essay | Individual | 1,200 words |
Week 10 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All | 4 | Artefact - Creative, and Oral | Individual | 10-minute presentation. |
Week 13 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All - Assessment Task 1:Placement Performance Agreement | ||||||||||
Goal: | This task enables you to become familiar with the code of conduct for your discipline and agree to work within its guidelines during a work integrated learning (WIL) experience. |
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Product: | Code of Conduct | |||||||||
Format: | During your WIL experience you are required to complete 96 hours of work experience (the equivalent of 12 x 8-hour days). To be eligible to pass, you are required to complete the placement satisfactorily. See Canvas for your discipline specific Code of Conduct. |
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Generic Skills: | Collaboration, Organisation |
All - Assessment Task 2:Placement Plan | |||||||||||||||||||
Goal: | In the assessment task, you will submit a placement plan to outline your placements goals and objectives as well as an account of your role, responsibilities and expectations. |
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Product: | Written Piece | ||||||||||||||||||
Format: | Using S.M.A.R.T goals, develop a proposal for your Placement that is structured to allow for the successful achievement of the goals you set for yourself, and the goals the host organisation would like you to achieve that will benefit them, within the available 96 hours of the placement. This plan, which can be written in the first person, will outline the role, responsibilities, expectations, goals, and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms associated with your placement using appropriate academic citations where required. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation |
All - Assessment Task 3:Reflective Essay | ||||||||||||||||
Goal: | In this assessment piece you will: 1) define the concepts of culture and equity in the workplace, and reflect upon workplace culture within your placement workplace; 2) discuss any challenges or barriers you faced during your placement and detail how you dealt with them; 3) discuss two theories learned in your degree program and explain how they do or do not apply to practice in your chosen career as you observed and/or experienced during your placement; 4) demonstrate your understanding of Employment and Employability and explain the differences between the two; 5) explain what more you can do to prepare yourself to work in your chosen career. |
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Product: | Essay | |||||||||||||||
Format: | A written essay inclusive of relevant citations. The use of headings to guide the reader is permitted. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation, Information literacy |
All - Assessment Task 4:Placement Outcome Presentation | ||||||||||||||||
Goal: | In this assessment task, you will present an overview of the actual Placement experience in comparison to your initial Placement Plan. You will showcase the outcomes of your placement and explain how you went about achieving your outcomes. |
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Product: | Artefact - Creative, and Oral | |||||||||||||||
Format: | Produce a professional standard presentation reflecting on the actual placement experience as it compares or contrasts with your initial Placement Plan. Showcase the outcomes of your placement and explain how you went about achieving them. This presentation may be a PowerPoint presentation with a voiceover or a video. A PowerPoint presentation may include photos and videos embedded into the presentation. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation, Information literacy |
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
May vary depending on the nature of the industry placement Placement proposal negotiation and discussion prior to week 1 Students must register and attend one of the two pre-placement orientation workshops held in O Week.
Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
This course will be graded as Pass in a Limited Grade Course (PU) or Fail in a Limited Grade Course (UF) as per clause 5.1.1.3 and 5.1.1.4 of the Grades and Grade Point Average (GPA) - Academic Policy.
In a course eligible to use Limited Grades, all assessment items in that course are marked on a Pass/Fail basis and all assessment tasks are required to be passed for a student to successfully complete the course. Supplementary assessment is not available in courses using Limited Grades.
You must contact your Course Coordinator and provide the required documentation if you require an extension or alternate assessment.
Refer to the Assessment: Courses and Coursework Programs – Procedures.
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