JSB307 Indigenous Justice Placement
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| Unit code: | JSB307 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | 192 credit points of previous study |
| Other requisite(s): | at the discretion of the unit coordinator |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,124 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $996 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,204 |
| International unit fee | $4,572 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | JSB307 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 192 credit points of previous study |
| Pre-requisite: | Unit Coordinator approval |
| Coordinator: | Dean Biron | dean.biron@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit offers Work Integrated Learning (WIL) in the form of a professional placement in which students undertake a placement at a relevant Indigenous justice-focused organisation or take part in the QUT-Cherbourg Project. In order to operate effectively in the workplace, students will need to be able to connect and apply the knowledge and theory that have gained from the other units in the degree to the practice of the profession. This unit supports students to develop these skills in an Indigenous justice context.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Explore and reflect on Indigenous cultures, histories and perspectives relevant to the workplace context and project (CLOs 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3)
- Apply research skills and discipline knowledge to analyse the core issues and policy context of a problem identified by the placement organisation (CLOs 1.3, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2).
- Use problem solving skills to plan and execute a workplace project (CLOs 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.3)
- Demonstrate professional practice skills in the workplace, including professional conduct, response to feedback, collaboration, intercultural awareness and professional ethics (CLOs 2.3, 2.4, 3.3, 5.3).
- Critically reflect on learning and experiences to develop professional insights and perspectives (CLO 5.2, 5.3)
- Communicate as a professional in a range of media relevant to the workplace context, diverse audiences and related purposes (CLOs 3.1, 3.2).
Content
You will work on a project or other work as discussed with and approved by the Unit Coordinator in an Indigenous justice-focused placement organisation that you, your academic supervisor and your professional supervisor have agreed adequately addresses a problem or gap identified in your selected workplace. The project will as closely as possible involve you in the day-to-day operation of the workplace organisation and require you to work in accordance with the QUT Code of Conduct and professional ethics under the supervision of a workplace supervisor to ensure you achieve the objective of completing the project/work and reporting upon it. One such project includes the highly regarded Cherbourg-QUT Project whereby transdisciplinary student teams collaborate with Industry partners on Aboriginal Community-initiated projects using a participatory action research framework.
Learning Approaches
You will learn by undertaking work as directed by your workplace supervisor and reflecting on this experience. The writing of a report about your placement will assist you to synthesise theory and practice. You will be required to attend the placement organisation/participate in the project for at least 10 days. You may negotiate with your placement supervisor and your academic supervisor to attend more days per week for a shorter number of weeks if this better meets the needs of the placement organisation or project.
Whilst undertaking the unit, you are required to speak with your academic supervisor to discuss your progress in the unit. This will include the insights you are developing into how the knowledge you have gained in earlier units assists your critical awareness of the workings of the organisation in which you are undertaking the placement. Where your placement requires access to sensitive material, you may be asked to speak with your academic supervisor on a regular basis. You will also be contacted by your placement supervisor throughout the semester, via email, to check on your progress. Students may also be required to attend professional development seminars across the semester.
Students may also have the opportunity to undertake a placement in a remote location. These placements are designed to give students the opportunity to work intensively with organisations that largely provide services to Indigenous communities. Such placements may be undertaken in a two-week block or over the course of a number of visits, with full days being spent in the workplace, depending on the requirements of the organisation. You are required to be in email and/or phone contact with your academic supervisor during your placement.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester, which may include:
- informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- formal: in writing, e.g. criteria sheets, written commentary
- direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- indirect: to the whole class.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment process in this unit is designed to be both formative (provide you with feedback on your progress in the unit) and summative (grade your progress in the unit and provide your final mark). There are two forms of assessment: a critique, and a reflective journal.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Workplace Analysis
In this task you will research and analyse the workplace organisation you are going to, as well as its broader context. This will include a consideration of the Indigenous communities, histories and issues, as well as the broader policy context, pertinent to that workplace.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Portfolio
This assessment will be negotiated between yourself, your placement supervisor and the academic supervisor. To meet the requirements of this assessment, students will either undertake a) project work, which involves an output; or b) practical work, which involves day-to-day practice work. The submitted components will include:
- a project or practice work plan - submitted early in the placement for formative feedback,
- your written response to feedback, and
- project or practice work output.
While the assessment task will be marked by the academic teaching team, workplace supervisors will be invited to offer formative feedback on your placement as part of the process.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Showcase
In this task you will create a five minute recorded presentation (using voice over powerpoint or other media) to critically reflect on your placement, share highlights and insights from your experiences and articulate the significance of what you have learned for your professional future.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Working with children check (blue card)
If you're working with children or young people as part of your studies or work experience, you need to have a blue card linked to your QUT student profile before you begin your placement. A blue card confirms that you've passed a screening of your criminal history—the 'working with children check'—and are approved to work with children and young people under 18 years old in Queensland. Working with children checks are managed separately by states or territories according to their local legislation. For more details, please refer to blue cards on the QUT website, and using a blue card in other states. It is recommended applying for, or renewing, your blue card at least 28 days prior to your placement commencement date.
Queensland's Disability Worker Screening
Queensland's disability worker screening aims to improve the safety and quality of services being delivered to people living with disability. If you are seeking to work or volunteer with adults or children with disability in Queensland as part of your studies or work experience, you may need a clearance. For more details, please refer to Queensland's disability worker screening.
Police Check (Criminal History Check)
You may be required to undertake a criminal history check prior to commencing your placement. If you're required to do so, your placement organisation will provide details about what checks are required and how to apply.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Costs
Working with children check (blue card)
No cost through QUT. For more details, please refer to blue cards on the QUT website, and using a blue card in other states.
Queensland's Disability Worker Screening
For more details and associated costs, please refer to Queensland's disability worker screening.
Police Check (Criminal History Check)
For more details and associated costs please refer to QLD Government site Criminal history checks.
Resources
The School of Justice 'JSB307 Indigenous Justice Placement Procedure Manual', which outlines roles, responsibilities and guidelines to successfully complete the work placement.
Any policy or procedures manuals that the placement/employer supervisor considers relevant.
Risk Assessment Statement
Students should become familiar with the emergency and evacuation procedures as they apply to their workplace.
Whilst on placement, students will be covered by QUT workers' compensation, public liability and professional indemnity insurance. It is also important to view the QUT WIL Health and Safety PowerPoint, 'Managing your rights, responsibilities and safety on placement', which will be made available on Canvas.
You may have to sign a confidentiality agreement whereby you agree not to disclose any information learned in the course of the placement to any person outside the field placement office. You will need to understand matters of intellectual property, conflict of interest and insurance, which are also detailed in the Health and Safety resources.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Online
| Unit code: | JSB307 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 192 credit points of previous study |
| Pre-requisite: | Unit Coordinator approval |
Overview
This unit offers Work Integrated Learning (WIL) in the form of a professional placement in which students undertake a placement at a relevant Indigenous justice-focused organisation or take part in the QUT-Cherbourg Project. In order to operate effectively in the workplace, students will need to be able to connect and apply the knowledge and theory that have gained from the other units in the degree to the practice of the profession. This unit supports students to develop these skills in an Indigenous justice context.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Explore and reflect on Indigenous cultures, histories and perspectives relevant to the workplace context and project (CLOs 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3)
- Apply research skills and discipline knowledge to analyse the core issues and policy context of a problem identified by the placement organisation (CLOs 1.3, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2).
- Use problem solving skills to plan and execute a workplace project (CLOs 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.3)
- Demonstrate professional practice skills in the workplace, including professional conduct, response to feedback, collaboration, intercultural awareness and professional ethics (CLOs 2.3, 2.4, 3.3, 5.3).
- Critically reflect on learning and experiences to develop professional insights and perspectives (CLO 5.2, 5.3)
- Communicate as a professional in a range of media relevant to the workplace context, diverse audiences and related purposes (CLOs 3.1, 3.2).
Content
You will work on a project or other work as discussed with and approved by the Unit Coordinator in an Indigenous justice-focused placement organisation that you, your academic supervisor and your professional supervisor have agreed adequately addresses a problem or gap identified in your selected workplace. The project will as closely as possible involve you in the day-to-day operation of the workplace organisation and require you to work in accordance with the QUT Code of Conduct and professional ethics under the supervision of a workplace supervisor to ensure you achieve the objective of completing the project/work and reporting upon it. One such project includes the highly regarded Cherbourg-QUT Project whereby transdisciplinary student teams collaborate with Industry partners on Aboriginal Community-initiated projects using a participatory action research framework.
Learning Approaches
You will learn by undertaking work as directed by your workplace supervisor and reflecting on this experience. The writing of a report about your placement will assist you to synthesise theory and practice. You will be required to attend the placement organisation/participate in the project for at least 10 days. You may negotiate with your placement supervisor and your academic supervisor to attend more days per week for a shorter number of weeks if this better meets the needs of the placement organisation or project.
Whilst undertaking the unit, you are required to speak with your academic supervisor to discuss your progress in the unit. This will include the insights you are developing into how the knowledge you have gained in earlier units assists your critical awareness of the workings of the organisation in which you are undertaking the placement. Where your placement requires access to sensitive material, you may be asked to speak with your academic supervisor on a regular basis. You will also be contacted by your placement supervisor throughout the semester, via email, to check on your progress. Students may also be required to attend professional development seminars across the semester.
Students may also have the opportunity to undertake a placement in a remote location. These placements are designed to give students the opportunity to work intensively with organisations that largely provide services to Indigenous communities. Such placements may be undertaken in a two-week block or over the course of a number of visits, with full days being spent in the workplace, depending on the requirements of the organisation. You are required to be in email and/or phone contact with your academic supervisor during your placement.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester, which may include:
- informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- formal: in writing, e.g. criteria sheets, written commentary
- direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- indirect: to the whole class.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment process in this unit is designed to be both formative (provide you with feedback on your progress in the unit) and summative (grade your progress in the unit and provide your final mark). There are two forms of assessment: a critique, and a reflective journal.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Workplace Analysis
In this task you will research and analyse the workplace organisation you are going to, as well as its broader context. This will include a consideration of the Indigenous communities, histories and issues, as well as the broader policy context, pertinent to that workplace.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Portfolio
This assessment will be negotiated between yourself, your placement supervisor and the academic supervisor. To meet the requirements of this assessment, students will either undertake a) project work, which involves an output; or b) practical work, which involves day-to-day practice work. The submitted components will include:
- a project or practice work plan - submitted early in the placement for formative feedback,
- your written response to feedback, and
- project or practice work output.
While the assessment task will be marked by the academic teaching team, workplace supervisors will be invited to offer formative feedback on your placement as part of the process.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Showcase
In this task you will create a five minute recorded presentation (using voice over powerpoint or other media) to critically reflect on your placement, share highlights and insights from your experiences and articulate the significance of what you have learned for your professional future.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Working with children check (blue card)
If you're working with children or young people as part of your studies or work experience, you need to have a blue card linked to your QUT student profile before you begin your placement. A blue card confirms that you've passed a screening of your criminal history—the 'working with children check'—and are approved to work with children and young people under 18 years old in Queensland. Working with children checks are managed separately by states or territories according to their local legislation. For more details, please refer to blue cards on the QUT website, and using a blue card in other states. It is recommended applying for, or renewing, your blue card at least 28 days prior to your placement commencement date.
Queensland's Disability Worker Screening
Queensland's disability worker screening aims to improve the safety and quality of services being delivered to people living with disability. If you are seeking to work or volunteer with adults or children with disability in Queensland as part of your studies or work experience, you may need a clearance. For more details, please refer to Queensland's disability worker screening.
Police Check (Criminal History Check)
You may be required to undertake a criminal history check prior to commencing your placement. If you're required to do so, your placement organisation will provide details about what checks are required and how to apply.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Costs
Working with children check (blue card)
No cost through QUT. For more details, please refer to blue cards on the QUT website, and using a blue card in other states.
Queensland's Disability Worker Screening
For more details and associated costs, please refer to Queensland's disability worker screening.
Police Check (Criminal History Check)
For more details and associated costs please refer to QLD Government site Criminal history checks.
Resources
The School of Justice 'JSB307 Indigenous Justice Placement Procedure Manual', which outlines roles, responsibilities and guidelines to successfully complete the work placement.
Any policy or procedures manuals that the placement/employer supervisor considers relevant.
Risk Assessment Statement
Students should become familiar with the emergency and evacuation procedures as they apply to their workplace.
Whilst on placement, students will be covered by QUT workers' compensation, public liability and professional indemnity insurance. It is also important to view the QUT WIL Health and Safety PowerPoint, 'Managing your rights, responsibilities and safety on placement', which will be made available on Canvas.
You may have to sign a confidentiality agreement whereby you agree not to disclose any information learned in the course of the placement to any person outside the field placement office. You will need to understand matters of intellectual property, conflict of interest and insurance, which are also detailed in the Health and Safety resources.