A professional internship or work placement provides you with experience in a professional environment relevant to your chosen discipline. The process of mixing study with practical experience will assist you to appreciate the relevance of material presented during discipline studies and further expand your professional knowledge and work-readiness with practical experience. You will be engaged in work-integrated learning (WIL) while being supported by the School. You will be required to document and reflect on your work placement experiences to assess professional growth, together with your strengths and weaknesses and develop an action plan for future professional development. You will also undertake a small applied research project focusing on a particular workplace issue or problem from your internship company/site. This unit is structured as 1-2 days intensive study in Week 1 prior to undertaking the 10 week work placement (4 days per week) and 3 weeks intensive student-centered study on return from the work placement. You will complete a research project report plus a reflective essay on your internship placement which will document your development of workplace knowledge, professional communication skills and also their understanding of the workplace culture.
Level | Postgraduate |
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Unit Level | 9 |
Credit Points | 12 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites:
Successful completion of BUSN20017 Effective Business Communications and BUSN20016 Research in Business; and 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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School |
Compulsory Residential School View Unit Residential School |
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).
Each 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Portfolio | 100% |
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%).
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 57.14% response rate.
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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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5 - Self-management | • | • | • | |
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | |
7 - Leadership | • | • |
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