Course Outline Report: COU202

What is this course about?

Description

This course has 4 aims: to review the knowledge and skills taught in all the pre-requisite courses; to consolidate the basic person-centred microskills; to apply these basic person-centred microskills to various populations and counselling frameworks; and to encourage integrative thinking in their emerging counselling identity and practice.  Success in this course ensures the student is ready for success in their placement courses in the following year.

How will this course be delivered?

Activity	Hours	Beginning Week	Frequency
Blended learning
Learning materials – Weekly 1 hour asynchonous learnign activities to delivery the weekly learning objectives, via recorded lectures, videos, interactive activities, discussion forums.	1hr	Week 1	12 times
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Weekly 2 hour on campus tutorials to consolidate learning each week, and provide space for skills practice with peer/tutor feedback	2hrs	Week 2	10 times
Information session – Online Learning Activity facilitated by the tutor.	1hr	Refer to Format	Once Only

Course Topics

Ethical Codes of Conduct and Practice
Person-Centred Counselling as a counselling philosophy
Group Counselling
e-therapy
Strength based approaches
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Approaches
Counselling adult populations
Counselling children and youth
Counselling diverse populations
Integrative Counselling Identity and Practice

What level is this course?

200 Level (Developing)

Building on and expanding the scope of introductory knowledge and skills, developing breadth or depth and applying knowledge and skills in a new context. May require pre-requisites where discipline specific introductory knowledge or skills is necessary. Normally, undertaken in the second or third full-time year of an undergraduate programs.

What is the unit value of this course?

12 units

How does this course contribute to my learning?

Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to...		Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming...
1	Demonstrate their consolidating ability to critically reflect on own identity and practice for life long learning	Empowered Sustainability-focussed
2	Demonstrate their consolidating knowledge regarding working with children, youth, and adults with various complaints	Empowered
3	Demonstrate their consolidating knowledge and skills applying person-centred counselling skills with CBT, Group, Strength-based Models, to improve mental health and wellbeing in clients, using practice-based evidence principles.	Empowered Ethical
4	Articulate an emerging integrative counselling identity and counselling practice	Creative and critical thinker
5	Demonstrate a mature ethical mindedness	Ethical
6	Demonstrate mature academic integrity skills	Ethical Sustainability-focussed

Am I eligible to enrol in this course?

Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.

Pre-requisites

COU100, COU101, COU176, COU180, enrolled in AR375

Co-requisites

COU265

Anti-requisites

Not applicable

Specific assumed prior knowledge and skills (where applicable)

Not applicable

Microcredential Information

Not applicable

How am I going to be assessed?

Grading Scale

Standard Grading (GRD)

High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL).

Details of early feedback on progress

Students will be encouraged to engage in reflective practice from week 2 within the LMS.  The tutor will provide feedback to students during these early weeks regarding their reflective writing, and comprehension.

Assessment tasks

Delivery mode	Task No.	Assessment Product	Individual or Group	Weighting %	What is the duration / length?	When should I submit?	Where should I submit it?
All	1	Activity Participation	Individual	10%	Course duration	Throughout teaching period (refer to Format)	In Class
All	2	Artefact - Creative, and Oral	Individual and Group	30%	20 slides for 20 minutes.	Week 7	Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check
All	3	Journal	Individual	35%	2000 words	Week 11	Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check
All	4	Artefact - Professional	Individual	25%	1000 - 1500 words	Week 12	Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check

All - Assessment Task 1:Participation

Goal:

Students will actively participate for a minimum of 80% of their on-campus tutorials. Failure to meet the minimum participation requirement will result in a failed grade for this task.

Product:

Activity Participation

Authorship Statement:

Format:

Tutor to assess and record participation each week, in LMS

Criteria:

No.		Learning Outcome assessed
1	Demonstrate professional dispositions through tutorial participation	5

Generic Skills:

All - Assessment Task 2:Narrated PPT Presentation

Goal:

Present an emerging integrated professional identify and practice via narrated ppt presentation.

Product:

Artefact - Creative, and Oral

Authorship Statement:

Format:

In groups, students are to create a PPT presentation with narration which summarises their collective comprehension of counselling modalities (PCT, Strength-based, CBT, Group, others) and their application to various populations (adults, children & Youth, diverse) or issues (e.g., addictions). They then complete this presentation with each member summarising their own emerging counselling identity, as well as their own emerging integrative practice, supported by literature.
Each individual submission will include Cameo feature in the individual sections for verification reasons. 
The finished presentation is downloaded as an MP4 file for submission via submission link online.

Criteria:


As a group, students have an emerging appreciation of each of the counselling modalities they have been exposed to prior to this course, and are able to critique the strengths and weaknesses of each
As a group, students are able to critically discuss evidence-based treatments for the various issues and populations they have been exposed to prior to this course, critiquing their strengths and weaknesses of each
Individually, each student has demonstrated ability to integrate all their learnings to date, and articulate an emerging professional counselling identity
Individually, each student has demonstrated ability to integrate all their learnings to date, and articulate an emerging professional counselling practice
As a group, students demonstrate ability to prepare a professional PPT presentation, conforming to APA 7th ed. conventions.

Generic Skills:

Communication, Problem solving, Applying technologies, Information literacy

All - Assessment Task 3:Weekly Critical Reflections

Goal:

Students are to critically reflect, in a mature manner, their role play practice each week, increasing their awareness of self and and their counselling practice.

Product:

Journal

Authorship Statement:

Format:

From Week 5, students will be engaging in regular role play triad practice, consolidating their counselling skills and increasing their counselling awareness via peer and tutor feedback. After each tutorial, the student is expected to reflect on their role play practice, strictly using the Kolb experiential learning model to guide their thinking. At week 11, the collection of reflections are collated in an APA 7th ed. formatted written assignment, including a conclusion paragraph which alludes to their areas of growth during the trimester as well as areas needing further development. This document is then prepared within Cadmus, and submitted online via plagiarism checkers.

Criteria:

No.		Learning Outcome assessed
1	Demonstration of their ability to apply critical thinking retrospectively to their weekly role play practice, articulating how each practice is developing their professional identity and practice.	1 4
2	Demonstration of their emerging ethical mindedness, by critiquing about whether their chosen therapeutic approach to the tutorial role play was driven by evidence-based literature or not.	5
3	Demonstration that they are considering feedback given to them in all courses up to this one, and thus deliberately improving their academic writing and integrity skills, using APA 7th ed. conventions.	6

Generic Skills:

Problem solving, Organisation, Information literacy

All - Assessment Task 4:CV and Selection Criteria

Goal:

Students to deeply consider their learning through the trimester, and create a CV that reflects their own emerging counselling identity accurately and comprehensively. This will be accompanied with responses to common selection criteria for a hypothetical counselling role. Finally, a cover letter to the contact person is to be included. This document will be useful for them when applying for agencies for their placement experience during the next year of their studies.

Product:

Artefact - Professional

Authorship Statement:

Format:

This document will be a written assignment, in professional resume formatting, and to industry standards. It will be submitted as a single document (cover letter, CV, selection criteria) online via the LMS.

Criteria:

No.		Learning Outcome assessed
1	Resume (CV) has been formatted professionally, succinctly, and is an accurate summary of the students own professional goals, experience, education, and other important details.	4
2	Demonstrate their ability to respond to selection criteria using the STAR technique (when applicable) to evidence their knowledge and skills in the area	1
3	Demonstrate ability to write a convincing cover letter that succinctly summarises their professional identity and practice, as well as any details important for the employer to know, that is not reflected in the CV and selection criteria.	1 4
4	Demonstrate emerging academic integrity skills and written communication skills	6

Generic Skills:

Communication, Organisation

Directed study hours

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.

What resources do I need to undertake this course?

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.

Prescribed text(s) or course reader

There are no required/recommended resources for this course.

Specific requirements

Not applicable

How are risks managed in this course?

Health and safety risks for this course have been assessed as low. It is your responsibility to review course material, search online, discuss with lecturers and peers and understand the health and safety risks associated with your specific course of study and to familiarise yourself with the University’s general health and safety principles by reviewing the online induction training for students, and following the instructions of the University staff.

What administrative information is relevant to this course?

Assessment: Academic Integrity

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.

Assessment: Additional Requirements

Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment

Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale

Assessment: Submission penalties

Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.

The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty

Links to relevant University policy and procedures

For more information on Academic Learning & Teaching categories including:

Assessment: Courses and Coursework Programs
Review of Assessment and Final Grades
Supplementary Assessment
Central Examinations
Deferred Examinations
Student Conduct
Students with a Disability

For more information, visit https://www.usc.edu.au/explore/policies-and-procedures#academic-learning-and-teaching

Student Charter

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General Enquiries

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Course Outline

COU202 Counselling Integrative Practice

2026Trimester 2

UniSC Sunshine Coast

UniSC Moreton Bay

What is this course about?

Description

How will this course be delivered?

Course Topics

What level is this course?

What is the unit value of this course?

How does this course contribute to my learning?

Am I eligible to enrol in this course?

Pre-requisites

Co-requisites

Anti-requisites

Specific assumed prior knowledge and skills (where applicable)

Microcredential Information

How am I going to be assessed?

Grading Scale

Details of early feedback on progress

Assessment tasks

Directed study hours

What resources do I need to undertake this course?

Prescribed text(s) or course reader

Specific requirements

How are risks managed in this course?

What administrative information is relevant to this course?

Assessment: Academic Integrity

Assessment: Additional Requirements

Assessment: Submission penalties

Links to relevant University policy and procedures

Student Charter

General Enquiries