BUSN12002 - Professional Business Practice and Experience

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Businesses are increasing wanting graduates who are work ready, who can apply their university developed knowledge, skills and attributes to successfully gain, maintain and participate in work and adapt to new contexts. Graduates want to develop knowledge, skills and attributes that enable them to future proof their careers. This unit achieves both of these purposes by providing you with the opportunity to consolidate your knowledge about your chosen profession/discipline through an authentic learning experience such as an internship, study tour or innovation project. The internship option provides opportunity for you to gain supervised practical work experience. The purpose of the internship is to expose you to workplace practices so that you can apply your business knowledge, gained from your business studies, to the work environment. Completion of the internship option may assist you in gaining employment or being able to engage with employers in employment opportunities. You will undertake an approved, generally unpaid, work placement to a maximum of 20 hours per week for a duration of 12 weeks. You will work closely with the unit coordinator and your workplace supervisor while undertaking the internship. The study tour option in this unit provides you with the practical experience of a study tour interpreted in the light of ethical business principles including, where appropriate, the application of social innovation, and enterprise in practice. The supervised study tour will develop your knowledge and skills in cross cultural, indigenous and business values, business trends, national and foreign markets, and social, economic and health and well-being issues. The project option in this unit will provide you with the opportunity to complete a supervised project at an advanced level that relates to your discipline area. You will be assigned a supervisor who will guide, advise and mentor you throughout the project. The project will focus on a real issue in an existing organisation.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisite N5651 Introduction to Professional Business Practice and 72 credit points

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 1 - 2024

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 15%
2. Reflective Practice Assignment 35%
3. Portfolio 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: CQUGlobal Self-reflection
Feedback
Lack of student enrolments is a critical issue.
Recommendation
It is recommended to focus this unit as a term 3 offering to capture students who are not taking studies over the term 3 period. This would also enable students from other universities to engage with the unit. This is a condition of the NCP funding for CQU as a member of the consortium of universities participating in this program.
Action Taken
This unit has now been discontinued. Global Experience options have been transferred to the new unit BUSN13004 Professional practice and experience.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Justify and communicate a project plan for an internship, study tour or project to investigate and analyse a business issue
  2. Critically analyse the relevance of the knowledge, skills and attributes developed through university studies to business contexts and future careers
  3. Investigate a business issue and develop solutions appropriate to the business context
  4. Critically reflect on internship, study tour or project experience to identify further areas of learning and professional development
  5. Synthesise university and practical business experience to demonstrate an understanding of self, careers, and the needs of businesses now and into the future.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Written Assessment • •
2 - Reflective Practice Assignment • • •
3 - Portfolio • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Communication • • • • •
2 - Problem Solving •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence •
8 - Ethical practice •
9 - Social Innovation •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Written Assessment • • • •
2 - Reflective Practice Assignment • • • • • • •
3 - Portfolio • • • • • • • •