Course Coordinator:Nadine McKillop (nmckillo@usc.edu.au) School:School of Law and Society
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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. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
This course provides a significant opportunity for you to integrate your classroom-based learning within a criminal-justice related professional practice setting. It enables you to apply your graduate-level knowledge, theories and skills in a supported and supervised environment to further develop your practical experience. You will become acquainted with the roles and responsibilities of working within a complex criminal justice-related environment. You will engage in critical reflection on your own practice and learning.
Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
Blended learning | |||
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Pre-placement planning workshop | 2hrs | Orientation week | Once Only |
Placement – Directed placement activities with Placement Partner Agency (Week 1-12) | 104hrs | Week 1 | Once Only |
Tutorial/Workshop 2 – Post-placement workshop (online) | 3hrs | Week 13 | Once Only |
Online | |||
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Pre-placement planning workshop (online) | 2hrs | Orientation week | Once Only |
Placement – Directed placement activities with Placement Partner Agency (Week 1-12) | 104hrs | Week 1 | Once Only |
Tutorial/Workshop 2 – Post-placement workshop (online) | 3hrs | Week 13 | Once Only |
300 Level (Graduate)
12 units
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 | Re-assess theoretical understandings in light of practical experience. |
Knowledgeable Creative and critical thinker |
2 | Exercise critical thinking and judgement to generate appropriate responses to criminal justice issues. |
Creative and critical thinker Engaged |
3 | Comply with the placement code of conduct and requirements of a professional agency. |
Ethical Engaged |
4 | Critically reflect on, and learn from, your own practice experience, and communicate this effectively. |
Creative and critical thinker Empowered |
5 | Evaluate the role of the placement agency in criminal justice. |
Ethical Engaged |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
You must be enrolled in AR325, AR364, AR316, SA307 or AR396 with a minimum cumulative GPA of 5 and successful completion of 192 coursework units, including successful completion of CRM206 Professional Development .
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Limited Grading (PNP)
You are required to complete your reflection journal during placement to enable the Course Co-ordinator to provide feedback in the early stages of placement.
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 | Journal | Individual | Minimum 100 words per entry |
Week 13 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All | 2 | Code of Conduct | Individual | 1-12 |
Refer to Format | To Supervisor |
All | 3 | Report | Individual | 2500 words |
Week 13 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All - Assessment Task 1:Reflective E-journal log | |
Goal: | Reflective practice is a skill that enables you to manage your own learning and professional development. The goal of this task is to help you to develop and refine this skill. |
Product: | Journal |
Format: | Over the course of placement, you are required to write 12 reflective e-journal logs regarding your placement experience via the Canvas course site. Each entry should indicate the major activities undertaken during the placement, and how you applied and extended your theoretical and practical knowledge through these activities. You can reflect on what you have learned from feedback (See further instructions on Canvas). Entries should be a minimum of 100 words to demonstrate that you are engaging in critical self-reflection regarding your experiences and learning to identify your strengths and areas for development. However, you are not restricted to a maximum word length to enable you to reflect, as you need, on this process. These entries will also assist you when preparing your final professional practice report (Task 3). |
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All - Assessment Task 2:Conduct and compliance in the workplace | |
Goal: | This task requires you to adopt and comply with a code of conduct that prepares you for the rigorous standards of the criminal justice profession and meet the attendance, conduct and performance expectations of a criminal justice workplace setting. |
Product: | Code of Conduct |
Format: | During your WIL experience you are required to complete 104 hours of work experience as negotiated in the placement agreement. You must complete the placement satisfactorily per the criteria below (see Canvas for the Student Placement Code of Conduct). Your placement supervisor will complete a placement report, due at the end of your placement activities. The report will address issues such as attendance and timeliness; appropriate behaviour towards colleagues, clients and other people whom you may encounter during your placement, and ethical issues such as confidentiality. The Course Coordinator will then use this report to determine satisfactory completion of this assessment task. Breaches of the Code of Conduct at any time will be reported by the Workplace Placement Partner and dealt with in accordance with the Workplace and Industry Placement - Procedures. |
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All - Assessment Task 3:Professional practice report | |
Goal: | To complete a professional practice report that describes and evaluates the role of your Workplace Placement agency within criminal justice. |
Product: | Report |
Format: | This is a 2500-word individual report. The report should include an overview and evaluation of the placement partner's service delivery and how this links to criminal justice. The evaluation should concentrate on the particular way the placement partner operates and how this fits with your understanding of criminal justice learned throughout your degree. The report should also consider your role within the organisation, the major task/s undertaken and how this contributed to the overall operation of the agency. |
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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.
It is possible that the Workplace Placement Partner may require you to attend an interview to consider your suitability for the practice placement. Online applications, criminal history checks, Blue Card requirements and compulsory organisational training might also be necessary before being approved for placement. It is important to discuss this with your Workplace Placement Supervisor or Course Co-ordinator at any pre-placement interviews. You are also expected to be attired appropriately for the workplace environment.
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 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 of the Grades and Grade Point Average (GPA) - Institutional Operating Policy of the USC. 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.
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