Unit Synopsis
This capstone unit provides you with the opportunity to reflect upon what you have learned from your undergraduate psychology degree, and to apply your discipline-specific knowledge within a professional context. There will be a focus on the transition into the workforce or further study, including the opportunity to review and finalise your professional ePortfolio, and to reflect on your values and current competencies as a future professional in the field of psychology. You will work in a small team to complete an applied major group project to address a real-world problem faced by an external organisation. Working as scientist-practitioners, your project (such as a research proposal, grant application, literature review, intervention, or evaluation), will be based on contemporary research evidence and consideration of cultural and ethical issues, and will highlight your discipline-specific and professional knowledge and skills.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
96 credit points including PSYC13015 in CC43. 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 | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
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.
Assessment Tasks
To see assessment details from an earlier availability, please search via a previous term.
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
Past Exams
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Term 2 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 85.71% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 25.61% response rate.
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: Student feedback, unit coordinator reflection, and feedback from CQUniversity Careers team.
Students continued to experience problems with using the Portfolium platform for their ePortfolio assessment.
Replace Portfolium with LinkedIn. This will require slight changes to assessment criteria, as well as new resources for how to use LinkedIn. The CQUniversity Careers team have resources for students already developed that can be incorporated into the unit.
This year, the portfolio assessment platform was changed, with LinkedIn replacing Portfolium.
Source: Unit Coordinator reflection.
Some groups did not adequately engage with industry partners, despite opportunities.
The unit coordinator will take a more active role in facilitating meetings between students and partner organisations.
The unit coordinator actively checked in with both the industry partners and groups to ensure ongoing engagement.
Source: Unit Coordinator reflection.
A small number of students did not fully engage with their group for the capstone project.
Continue regular group check-ins and monitoring of groups. Provide students with resources for group work facilitation. Consider increasing the marks allocated to group participation.
The main strategy here was to continue group check-ins and maintain communication with groups, allowing students to voice any concerns they had.
Source: End of term student feedback
Students appreciated receiving feedback on their group project before the final presentation.
Continue to provide groups the opportunity to practice their pitch with the unit coordinator prior to the final industry pitch.
Students were given the opportunity to present their presentation and slides prior to their final industry pitch.
Source: Student Emails
Some students reported not wanting their LinkedIn profiles to be public.
Provide students with some alternative options to activate and deactivate LinkedIn such that the Unit Coordinator has a short opening to mark the assessment and communicate with students regarding the marking opportunity.
In Progress
Source: SUTE Unit Comments
Some students suggested they would like more interaction with their group members.
Provide groups with a regular check in time throughout the term, to ensure there is greater interaction within the groups.
In Progress
Source: Student Communication
Some students reported really enjoying working with the industry partners on real world scenarios
It is recommended that the unit continues enable students to engage with industry for future group projects.
In Progress
To see Learning Outcomes from an earlier availability, please search via a previous term.