PYB300 Behavioural Science and Contemporary Challenges
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| Unit code: | PYB300 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | PYB203 and PYB204 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | The Commonwealth supported place student contribution amount for this unit depends upon the course of study. Find out more |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $4,224 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYB300 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYB203 and PYB204 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Students should complete this unit in their final year of studies. |
| Coordinator: | Olivia Miller | o3.miller@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This advanced unit will provide you with the opportunity to integrate and apply knowledge and skills from across behavioural science and psychology to address the needs of professional and community partners and present your real world solutions in the format of a community grant. A key consideration in developing your innovation will be the cultural, ethical, and professional frameworks relevant to your challenge. This unit also provides you with the opportunity to consider how your skills and knowledge can be utilised and communicated in inter-professional settings and present these through selection criteria responses.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Develop a professional plan to summarise and communicate your behavioural science skills/knowledge and graduate capabilities (including your ability to work effectively in a team) to a diverse professional audience
- Use advanced psychological knowledge and skills to develop and argue for an innovative solution to a specific community problem;
- Develop a viable grant application to communicate the benefits of your real world solution;
- Demonstrate an ability to work and achieve goals within a collaborative team environment
- Identify important concepts that underpin professional practice in the community sector
Content
This capstone unit provides you with the opportunity to integrate skills and knowledge from across your degree and requires you to complete tasks that are typically required in graduate positions relevant to the Behavioural Sciences. Across the semester, independent learning activities will support you to reflect on your behavioural science training and team work skills. You will be supported to present these skills and capabilities through selection criteria responses. The unit will then shift focus to the application of your skills and knowledge to the needs or challenges of a real world external partner. External partners will come from the community or professional sector and will provide a briefing outlining their contemporary challenge or need. In groups, you will develop a grant or funding proposal to respond to the brief. A focus of this activity will be to develop partnership skills to address inequality or other sustainability challenges. Your team will need to communicate your proposal, provide evidence for your proposal, suggest a way to evaluate the success of the project, and present a realistic budget for its implementation.
Learning Approaches
As an advanced unit, you will be responsible for your learning and for professional conduct throughout all interactions. A key element of the learning approach will be contact with a community or professional partner to explore contemporary challenges related to behavioural science. Groups will be expected to collaborate to complete the grant and you will be supported to manage this process. You will also complete online self-directed learning. Your reflections on your work will also prepare you for the important graduate skill of evaluating the work of yourself and others in the workplace.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative tasks throughout the unit will support you to prepare for the assessment tasks. You are strongly encouraged to keep up with the self-directed learning tasks.
Summative assessment is spread across the semester to ensure you receive formal feedback at suitable time-points. This assessment includes group and individual components. As an advanced student, you will engage in self and team evaluations.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit prepares you for work after graduation in three key ways: 1) you will reflect on your own skills and your ability to work in a team; 2) you will demonstrate your ability to develop an evidence-based solution and construct a compelling grant application to address an issue of inequality; and 3) you will consider how to communicate your professional abilities to others, including employers.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Community Sector Online Quiz
This online multiple-choice quiz will test your understanding of important concepts that underpin professional practice in the community sector.
Assessment: Grant Prospectus
You will be briefed by a professional or community partner on a significant community need or challenge. Working in a group you will be guided through a range of steps to develop an innovative solution that utilises behavioural science. Your solution will also need to be justified in terms of sustainability and efficiency. You will develop a grant application which describes an innovative solution. Your grant will also present the evidence for, strengths of, and a viable budget for the solution. Your grant proposal will also present appropriate strategies to evaluate the innovation.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
Due to the essential professional skills demonstrated in this assessment you must achieve a passing grade in the assessment to complete the unit. If you do not achieve the pass level for an assessment task you are able to make one re-submission of this work for the minimum pass level, only when your achieved mark/grade is within 10% (or 1 grade) of the pass level for the assessment item. You are advised to seek feedback on your submission from the unit coordinator prior to re-submission.
Assessment: Professional Plan
As a soon to be graduate of the Bachelor of Behavioural Science degree, professional planning is important and timely. Within this assessment, you will draw from your experiences and learning in PYB300 (including your teamwork experience and the career planning workshop/s), your university degree more broadly and/or your past professional/personal experiences to develop a professional plan. Your plan will include reflective comment on your career/professional development goals along with statements for job applications such as selection criteria responses.
This is an assignment eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
You may be required to attend briefings or Q&A sessions with your community or professional partner. These sessions will be advertised at the start of semester to allow time for planning.
Costs
Some minor transport costs (e.g., petrol or public transport) may be involved for one or two sessions with your partner mentioned above.
Risk Assessment Statement
During the COVID-19 response, this unit may be hosted online.
This unit may involve some risks including short domestic travel (within South East Qld). You will be briefed on and involved in the management of these risks. Where possible, online options will also be offered.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PY45 Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology)
- Describe and evaluate the core scientific perspectives of psychology with reference to theories, methods and research, from diverse perspectives, including first-nations perspectives.
Relates to: Grant Prospectus, Professional Plan - Critically examine the scientific discipline of psychological research and theories using oral, written and digital communication to address psychological issues in a respectful, ethical and professional manner.
Relates to: Grant Prospectus, Professional Plan - Employ strategies for self-reflection, with regards to your conduct, values and impact on others and the profession in a culturally sensitive, inclusive, ethical and sustainable way.
Relates to: Grant Prospectus, Professional Plan - Develop interpersonal process skills that contribute to effective outcomes in collaboration with others, including developing innovative opportunities.
Relates to: Grant Prospectus, Professional Plan - Implement a range of digital capabilities to access, examine and utilise evidence-based information in the context of effectively responding to, and communicating, real world problems.
Relates to: Grant Prospectus, Professional Plan