PYB301 Psychology in the Community: Placement
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| Unit code: | PYB301 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | PYB202 and PYB203 and PYB204 and PYB210 |
| Antirequisite(s): | PYB207 |
| 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 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYB301 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYB202 and PYB203 and PYB204 and PYB210 |
| Anti-requisite: | PYB207 |
| Coordinator: | Erin O'Connor | el.oconnor@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit enables you to develop your work-literacy and work-readiness, by providing opportunities to apply psychological knowledge in authentic workplace contexts, supported by activities that promote critical reflection on your learning and workplace practices.
You will arrange a 50 hour work placement at relevant organisation. You will be supported by the teaching team, on-campus workshops and activities designed to promote critical reflection on your workplace experience.
All students considering this unit are strongly encouraged to apply for a Blue Card (suitability for working with children and young people clearance) before the commencement of semester as this clearance is required by most of our host organisations.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply psychological principles to solve practical and applied problems in a real world work environment through critical, creative, and analytical thinking, and effective problem solving. ;
- Demonstrate interpersonal and professional communication skills, and your ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team;
- Demonstrate personal development through the application of effective strategies for self-management and self-improvement with an ability to work independently and collaboratively ;
- Identify and articulate the important cultural, legal and ethical challenges within your placement setting and identify strategies to work responsibly and sensitively with others, including across disciplines; and
- Engage in critical reflection and discussion regarding your placement experience.
Content
There are three broad areas of content in this unit, which are not mutually exclusive, and not necessarily linear in their delivery. The first area focuses on your professional development and career planning. Through the completion of authentic career development activities, you will develop your capacity for describing your personal and professional skills and communicate these to future employers through a resume.
The second area focuses on work-integrated learning. You will undertake a workplace activity aimed at developing your professional skills, your understanding of workplace contexts, and the application of psychological knowledge in real world contexts. Orientation activities, both in class and in the workplace, will prepare you for this experientially-based learning. Your workplace activities will be conducted under guidance from a workplace supervisor and the unit coordinator.
The final focus is on your construction of knowledge and understanding of what it is to be a behavioural science professional. Through participation in workshops and debriefing and reflection activities you will create meaningful interpretations of the interactions between your personal, work, and academic environments, and critically evaluate your workplace experience and the translation of theory into practice.
QUT Graduate capabilities (GC) developed:
Knowledge and skills pertinent to a particular discipline or professional area
1) Critical, creative and analytical thinking, and effective problem-solving
2) Effective communication in a variety of contexts and modes
3) The capacity for life-long learning
4) The ability to work independently and collaboratively
5) Social and ethical responsibility and an understanding of indigenous and international perspectives
6) Characteristics of self-reliance and leadership.
Learning Approaches
This unit requires a high degree of commitment, digital capabilities, and self-directed learning. The unit is structured around workshops, off-campus workplace activities, and self-directed online activities. Some work placements may include work after regular business hours and on weekends.
Formal workshops and individual consultations. Through the unit workshops you will be supported to reflect on your own skills and career development in preparation for workplace learning. Consultations during semester and workshops at the end of semester will focus on debriefing and critical reflection on your workplace training.
Workplace learning. Your workplace experience, completed in an approved organisation, will be supervised by a workplace supervisor and the unit coordinator. You will be expected to have undertaken background research into the organisation prior to commencing your placement, and to keep a workplace diary documenting your progress towards achieving your learning goals. These observations will form the basis for reflection in the debriefing workshops and self-directed learning activities.
Self-directed learning activities. You will be expected to complete a range of self-paced online learning activities throughout the semester. Tasks will include preparatory modules on workplace safety and ethics, completing an online review of workplace safety, exercises designed to help you critically reflect on your workplace experience, and tasks to help you communicate your placement experience to future employers through job applications.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative feedback in this unit will be provided through individual consultations with teaching staff and supervision meetings with your workplace supervisor. The unit will take a participatory approach to feedback and encourage you to engage in two-way informal feedback throughout the semester. Students who require additional feedback are encouraged to contact the teaching team for additional consultations and support. Summative feedback will be provided in response to each of the assessment tasks below.
Assessment
Overview
Your assessment tasks will align with the three broad areas covered in this unit. Assessment for this unit includes both summative and formative components. Summative assessment items will be criterion-referenced on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. You are required to electronically submit all written assignments through TurnItIn for content matching checks.
How your grade will be determined:
You will receive a result of satisfactory or unsatisfactory for each individual assessment item in this unit. If an assessment submission is unsatisfactory, you will be given feedback and a new deadline (often a week) to resubmit the task. You need to pass each task to pass the unit. Once you have received a satisfactory result for each task, you will be awarded a result of Satisfactory for the unit.
Feedback will be provided on the assignment according to the criteria and standards provided in the rubric.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Professional Portfolio Part A
This portfolio brings together the work you will undertake in preparation for authentic workplace learning, including your learning plan and the online workplace health and safety placement audit. This task will also require you to demonstrate your awareness of and ability to plan for contemporary challenges including working effectively through ethical dilemmas and appropriately collaborating with diverse communities.
Formative component: Feedback and discussion on your first portfolio will be provided during preparatory workshops.
Weight: Graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
This document establishes the conditions and tasks involved in your placement and evidences them against the learning outcomes. For this reason, you must pass this task to complete the unit.
Assessment: Workplace Learning Report
You will work collaboratively with your workplace supervisor to assess your progress and performance during your workplace-learning experience against your learning plan (developed as part of Assessment Item No.1). Through participation in the workplace, multiple opportunities will exist for formative feedback. The final assessment of your contribution during this experience will include your professional and ethical conduct.
Weight:Graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
As placement is a core element of this unit, this task must be completed and passed to complete the unit.
Assessment: Professional Portfolio Part B
Your final portfolio will include the submission of a professional resume. Your responses will feature the skills you have used and attributes modeled while on placement. You will also upload a short video reflection (4 minutes) to an online gallery in preparation to participate in a small group reflection workshop. You will be expected to review the videos of others in your discussion group and arrive prepared to engage in reflective discussion with other students about your and others experiences.
Weight Graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment 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.
Risk Assessment Statement
During this unit you will be required to participate in an off-campus placement, where you may be exposed to risks not encountered in a normal on-campus environment. When undertaking a work placement, you will automatically be subject to the Workplace Health and Safety policies and procedures of the organisation. You are required by law to comply with these policies and procedures at all times. Measures to minimise risks include:
- Appropriate preparation prior to commencing your work placement, including identification of the relevant WH&S policies and procedures, and arrangements for appropriate workplace insurance, either through your host organisation or through QUT.
- Orientation to the work organisation, including the completion of any required orientation processes or activities.
- Adequate supervision while on work placement.
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: Professional Portfolio Part A - 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: Professional Portfolio Part A, Professional Portfolio Part B - 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: Professional Portfolio Part A, Workplace Learning Report, Professional Portfolio Part B - Develop interpersonal process skills that contribute to effective outcomes in collaboration with others, including developing innovative opportunities.
Relates to: Workplace Learning Report, Professional Portfolio Part B - 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: Professional Portfolio Part A, Workplace Learning Report, Professional Portfolio Part B
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PYB301 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PYB202 and PYB203 and PYB204 and PYB210 |
| Anti-requisite: | PYB207 |
| Coordinator: | Erin O'Connor | el.oconnor@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit enables you to develop your work-literacy and work-readiness, by providing opportunities to apply psychological knowledge in authentic workplace contexts, supported by activities that promote critical reflection on your learning and workplace practices.
You will arrange a 50 hour work placement at relevant organisation. You will be supported by the teaching team, on-campus workshops and activities designed to promote critical reflection on your workplace experience.
All students considering this unit are strongly encouraged to apply for a Blue Card (suitability for working with children and young people clearance) before the commencement of semester as this clearance is required by most of our host organisations.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply psychological principles to solve practical and applied problems in a real world work environment through critical, creative, and analytical thinking, and effective problem solving. ;
- Demonstrate interpersonal and professional communication skills, and your ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team;
- Demonstrate personal development through the application of effective strategies for self-management and self-improvement with an ability to work independently and collaboratively ;
- Identify and articulate the important cultural, legal and ethical challenges within your placement setting and identify strategies to work responsibly and sensitively with others, including across disciplines; and
- Engage in critical reflection and discussion regarding your placement experience.
Content
There are three broad areas of content in this unit, which are not mutually exclusive, and not necessarily linear in their delivery. The first area focuses on your professional development and career planning. Through the completion of authentic career development activities, you will develop your capacity for describing your personal and professional skills and communicate these to future employers through a resume.
The second area focuses on work-integrated learning. You will undertake a workplace activity aimed at developing your professional skills, your understanding of workplace contexts, and the application of psychological knowledge in real world contexts. Orientation activities, both in class and in the workplace, will prepare you for this experientially-based learning. Your workplace activities will be conducted under guidance from a workplace supervisor and the unit coordinator.
The final focus is on your construction of knowledge and understanding of what it is to be a behavioural science professional. Through participation in workshops and debriefing and reflection activities you will create meaningful interpretations of the interactions between your personal, work, and academic environments, and critically evaluate your workplace experience and the translation of theory into practice.
QUT Graduate capabilities (GC) developed:
Knowledge and skills pertinent to a particular discipline or professional area
1) Critical, creative and analytical thinking, and effective problem-solving
2) Effective communication in a variety of contexts and modes
3) The capacity for life-long learning
4) The ability to work independently and collaboratively
5) Social and ethical responsibility and an understanding of indigenous and international perspectives
6) Characteristics of self-reliance and leadership.
Learning Approaches
This unit requires a high degree of commitment, digital capabilities, and self-directed learning. The unit is structured around workshops, off-campus workplace activities, and self-directed online activities. Some work placements may include work after regular business hours and on weekends.
Formal workshops and individual consultations. Through the unit workshops you will be supported to reflect on your own skills and career development in preparation for workplace learning. Consultations during semester and workshops at the end of semester will focus on debriefing and critical reflection on your workplace training.
Workplace learning. Your workplace experience, completed in an approved organisation, will be supervised by a workplace supervisor and the unit coordinator. You will be expected to have undertaken background research into the organisation prior to commencing your placement, and to keep a workplace diary documenting your progress towards achieving your learning goals. These observations will form the basis for reflection in the debriefing workshops and self-directed learning activities.
Self-directed learning activities. You will be expected to complete a range of self-paced online learning activities throughout the semester. Tasks will include preparatory modules on workplace safety and ethics, completing an online review of workplace safety, exercises designed to help you critically reflect on your workplace experience, and tasks to help you communicate your placement experience to future employers through job applications.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Formative feedback in this unit will be provided through individual consultations with teaching staff and supervision meetings with your workplace supervisor. The unit will take a participatory approach to feedback and encourage you to engage in two-way informal feedback throughout the semester. Students who require additional feedback are encouraged to contact the teaching team for additional consultations and support. Summative feedback will be provided in response to each of the assessment tasks below.
Assessment
Overview
Your assessment tasks will align with the three broad areas covered in this unit. Assessment for this unit includes both summative and formative components. Summative assessment items will be criterion-referenced on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. You are required to electronically submit all written assignments through TurnItIn for content matching checks.
How your grade will be determined:
You will receive a result of satisfactory or unsatisfactory for each individual assessment item in this unit. If an assessment submission is unsatisfactory, you will be given feedback and a new deadline (often a week) to resubmit the task. You need to pass each task to pass the unit. Once you have received a satisfactory result for each task, you will be awarded a result of Satisfactory for the unit.
Feedback will be provided on the assignment according to the criteria and standards provided in the rubric.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Professional Portfolio Part A
This portfolio brings together the work you will undertake in preparation for authentic workplace learning, including your learning plan and the online workplace health and safety placement audit. This task will also require you to demonstrate your awareness of and ability to plan for contemporary challenges including working effectively through ethical dilemmas and appropriately collaborating with diverse communities.
Formative component: Feedback and discussion on your first portfolio will be provided during preparatory workshops.
Weight: Graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
This document establishes the conditions and tasks involved in your placement and evidences them against the learning outcomes. For this reason, you must pass this task to complete the unit.
Assessment: Workplace Learning Report
You will work collaboratively with your workplace supervisor to assess your progress and performance during your workplace-learning experience against your learning plan (developed as part of Assessment Item No.1). Through participation in the workplace, multiple opportunities will exist for formative feedback. The final assessment of your contribution during this experience will include your professional and ethical conduct.
Weight:Graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
As placement is a core element of this unit, this task must be completed and passed to complete the unit.
Assessment: Professional Portfolio Part B
Your final portfolio will include the submission of a professional resume. Your responses will feature the skills you have used and attributes modeled while on placement. You will also upload a short video reflection (4 minutes) to an online gallery in preparation to participate in a small group reflection workshop. You will be expected to review the videos of others in your discussion group and arrive prepared to engage in reflective discussion with other students about your and others experiences.
Weight Graded on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment 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.
Risk Assessment Statement
During this unit you will be required to participate in an off-campus placement, where you may be exposed to risks not encountered in a normal on-campus environment. When undertaking a work placement, you will automatically be subject to the Workplace Health and Safety policies and procedures of the organisation. You are required by law to comply with these policies and procedures at all times. Measures to minimise risks include:
- Appropriate preparation prior to commencing your work placement, including identification of the relevant WH&S policies and procedures, and arrangements for appropriate workplace insurance, either through your host organisation or through QUT.
- Orientation to the work organisation, including the completion of any required orientation processes or activities.
- Adequate supervision while on work placement.
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: Professional Portfolio Part A - 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: Professional Portfolio Part A, Professional Portfolio Part B - 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: Professional Portfolio Part A, Workplace Learning Report, Professional Portfolio Part B - Develop interpersonal process skills that contribute to effective outcomes in collaboration with others, including developing innovative opportunities.
Relates to: Workplace Learning Report, Professional Portfolio Part B - 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: Professional Portfolio Part A, Workplace Learning Report, Professional Portfolio Part B