Overview
This work placement capstone unit enables you to apply the theories, content knowledge and skills you have learned throughout your degree to a professional environment through either an on-site placement or an online research project placement. On-site placements may be with a regulatory agency, criminal justice agency, government department, local council, or community-based organisation. This practical experience will involve 100 hours of workplace experience, which may be accrued intensively or distributed throughout the term. Students undertaking the research project placement will complete 100 hours of work on a dedicated project under the supervision of the project owner. The research project placement can be undertaken wholly online, by distance. The university will assist you in finding suitable placement arrangements, depending on your location and availability. All students are required to undertake coursework in addition to their placement hours, which will include assessments relating to the weekly modules on professional expectations, skills, and careers.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Enrolment in CL55, CL75, or CL94 and 72 cp of completed units.
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 2 - 2026
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 Agency feedback
Placement providers felt the number of hours could be increased to enable onboarding.
Increase placement hours to enable students to undertake agency onboarding and induction.
Feedback from Student feedback
Students felt that expectations around placement processes were unclear.
Offer an online information session prior to the term commencing wherein expectations and processes can be communicated to students before placements commence.
- Apply skills and knowledge developed in the course to practice in a regulatory agency, criminal justice agency, government department, community-based agency, or a relevant research project.
- Evaluate and report on placement experience, assessing personal and professional growth, including strengths and weaknesses in intellectuall, social, and professional development.
- Reflect upon and analyse the careers, roles, relationships, responsibilities and activities of staff engaged in the practice of Criminal Justice and related careers.
- Critically reflect upon the knowledge gained of the professional work environment and career pathways as a result of the coursework within the unit and participation in placement.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Professional Practice Placement - 70% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 15% | ||||
| 3 - Presentation - 15% | ||||
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 - First Nations Knowledges | ||||
| 11 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||