This course provides students with comprehensive training in research ethics and the ethics of professional practice. The first aspect of the course aims to provide students with an understanding of the necessity for, and the processes which underpin, research ethics and acquaint them with the Human Research ethics procedures set by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. The second component of the course aims to equip students with information that is necessary for practising as a psychologist in a professional manner, including ethical issues in practice, and the development and maintenance of professional skills. There is a high level of expectation regarding self-directed learning and dialectical style. Students are expected to read widely and reflect on various opinions about ethical best practice in psychology both from a research perspective and a professional practise perspective.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 4 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Academic Program = CU77 or CA44 For CU77 students: Full completion of level 1-3 undergraduate studies. GPA of 5.0 for level 2 and level 3 Psychology Courses. 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 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 Task | Weighting |
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1. Written Assessment | 10% |
2. Presentation and Written Assessment | 30% |
3. Practical and Written Assessment | 20% |
4. Examination | 40% |
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 1 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 85.71% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 74.47% 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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2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
5 - Team Work | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | |||||||||
8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
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