Overview
Construction Fundamentals 1 (Carpentry) will introduce you to professional and statutory responsibilities in the building and construction sector. You will gain an understanding of occupational health and safety, financial and risk management, construction business planning, trust and general accounts, office management and licencing obligations. You will learn to develop strategies to implement risk management processes. You will examine relevant taxation, licence and insurance requirements and develop effective strategies to manage these requirements.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
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).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2020
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).
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.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
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.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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.
Feedback from Lecturer reflection
The unit is a blend of practical skills and case study research demonstrated by continuous assessment.
Progressive lodgement avoids a spike in workload at the end of the term.
- Apply occupational health and safety in the construction industry
- Administer financial and office management processes to start, grow and maintain a practice
- Develop effective strategies to manage relevant taxation, licencing and insurance requirements
- Implement risk management processes.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- MSOffice (Excel, Word, Powerpoint etc) or similar software
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
p.lawrence1@cqu.edu.au
k.j.stone@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction to Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) - law, policy and procedure
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Introduction to WPH - implementation and monitoring.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Introduction to WHS - training strategies.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Introduction to WHS - hazard and risk.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Introduction to WHS - record keeping.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Vacation week.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Please note you may have a VET workshop task to finalise.
Module/Topic
Introduction to finance - the financial plan.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Introduction to finance - financial performance.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Financial Management: Investments.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Financial Management: Capital.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Professionalism: Professional Conscience - Ethics.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Professionalism: Profession and Industry Associations.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
How building codes manage risk.
Chapter
Please refer to the Moodle unit site for additional information.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Review
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Please note you may have a VET workshop task to finalise.
Written Assessment Due: Review/Exam Week Monday (8 June 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
There is no exam for this unit.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
Written assessment
Task relates to learning outcomes 1 and 4.
This assessment allows you to research and interpret current developments in the construction industry as it relates to Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) and risk management by applying learning from topics 1 to 5, and to report your findings.
Week 5 Friday (10 Apr 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 7 Friday (1 May 2020)
Before or on the nominated due date, upload your work following the on-screen instructions from the Assessment block on the unit Moodle site. Your submission will be processed through the similarity detection software, Turnitin. You may amend your work based on the detection report. You must ensure that the work is your own or has been correctly referenced to the appropriate author(s), according to the CQU requirements. A submission exceeding the word limit by greater than 10% will not be assessed beyond the prescribed word limit.
You will find further support material for this task on the unit Moodle site during week 1.
This assessment will be reviewed on the following basis:- Use of quality supporting documentation
- Use of original thought and content
- Overall presentation including formatting and an ability to communicate using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation and the use of appropriate diagrams and other visual aids
- Appropriate use of referencing
- Application of core knowledge and comprehensive coverage of task requirements
- Apply occupational health and safety in the construction industry
- Implement risk management processes.
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
Written assessment
Task relates to learning outcomes 2 and 3.
This assessment allows you to research and interpret current financial management practice as it relates to starting and running a small construction-based business by applying learning from topics 6 to 12, and to report your findings.
Review/Exam Week Monday (8 June 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Friday 03/07/20
Before or on the nominated due date, upload your work following the on-screen instructions from the Assessment block on the unit Moodle site. Your submission will be processed through the similarity detection software, Turnitin. You may amend your work based on the detection report. You must ensure that the work is your own or has been correctly referenced to the appropriate author(s), according to the CQU requirements. A submission exceeding the word limit by greater than 10% will not be assessed beyond the prescribed word limit.
You will find further support material for this task on the unit Moodle site during week 1.
This assessment will be reviewed on the following basis:
- Use of quality supporting documentation
- Use of original thought and content
- Overall presentation including formatting and an ability to communicate using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation and the use of appropriate diagrams and other visual aids
- Appropriate use of referencing
- Application of core knowledge and comprehensive coverage of task requirements
- Administer financial and office management processes to start, grow and maintain a practice
- Develop effective strategies to manage relevant taxation, licencing and insurance requirements
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
