JSQ168 Critical Policy Skills Capstone
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| Unit code: | JSQ168 |
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| Equivalent(s): | JSN168 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,756 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2025, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | JSQ168 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | JSQ165 |
Overview
There are a number of critical policy skills required of the professional contemporary policy officer. This unit aims to develop, enhance and consolidate your skills to enable you to undertake sophisticated and effective policy work, both in the public and the private sector. This capstone unit will consolidate your critical policy analysis skills, and build the knowledge and capacity to engage effectively with stakeholders and to effectively design and oversee policy. In this unit, you will have the opportunity to engage in work-integrated learning by evaluating and advising on a specific real world policy issue.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Analyse social policy and evaluate the role of policy in broader political, cultural and social contexts (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2)
- Engage with diverse stakeholders, including those from marginalised groups to design and oversee the successful implementation of policy (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2, 4.4)
- Evaluate the impacts and implications of a current policy problem, discuss options and make evidence-based recommendations (1.1, 1.3, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4)
- Present research findings, communicating and negotiating strategically and persuasively to diverse audiences (CLO 3.1, 3.2, 5.3)
- Apply teamwork skills and reflect upon effective collaboration (CLO 3.1, 3.3)
Content
Module 9 - Good Governance and Policy
- Introduction to critical policy skills
- Critical policy analysis in government
- Critical policy analysis in non-government organisations
- Cabinet submissions
- Stakeholder engagement, including marginalized communities
- Risk management
- Marginalisation and Indigenous perspectives
Learning Approaches
This capstone unit allows you to continue to build your community of practice and take an action learning approach to solving real world industry problems. You will work individually and with your team to evaluate the impacts and implications of a current policy problem and make evidence-based recommendations in the form of a cabinet submission. You will negotiate with your team to plan, theorise, take action and reflect on your experience.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
The following types of feedback will assist you to develop the knowledge and skills in this unit:
- Self-feedback in the form of online written reflections
- Peer feedback in the form of group discussion and online collaborative sessions
- Adaptive feedback in the form of online interactive learning activities
- Teacher feedback in the online collaborative sessions, discussion boards, and written feedback on assessment
Assessment
Overview
There are three pieces of summative assessment for this capstone unit, as well as ongoing formative assessment. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that you have both the necessary theoretical understanding and practical skills to effectively undertake different forms of critical policy analysis, along with the development of effective stakeholder and implementation strategies. Collaborative activities within your community of practice will serve as formative assessment, providing you with feedback from peers and the teaching team early in the unit that will assist you in completing the summative assessment.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Cover Sheet
You will work individually to critically evaluate the impacts and implications of a policy issue. Your summary will identify the main issues and key recommendations.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Self Reflection
This assessment piece is an individual self-reflection on how you participated in and contributed to, the group work associated with preparing a cabinet submission. You will use the template supplied to critically discuss your contribution and teamwork.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Cabinet Submission
Working in teams you will produce the body of a cabinet submission in accordance with the template provided.
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.
Resources
This unit will draw from real world documentation and additional readings and resources provided throughout the modules.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JQ45 Master of Justice
- Design approaches for working with a plurality of diverse stakeholders and communities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO5, Cover Sheet, Self Reflection, Cabinet Submission - Evaluate complex and sensitive problems of justice to inform evidence-based responses.
Relates to: ULO3, Cover Sheet, Cabinet Submission - Apply a range of communication modes to professionally and strategically interpret and convey critical information to diverse stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO4, Cover Sheet, Cabinet Submission - Examine how ethics, intersectionality and contextual factors converge to impact on and shape social justice issues.
Relates to: ULO1, Cover Sheet, Cabinet Submission
Unit Outline: Session 4 2025, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | JSQ168 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | JSQ165 |
Overview
There are a number of critical policy skills required of the professional contemporary policy officer. This unit aims to develop, enhance and consolidate your skills to enable you to undertake sophisticated and effective policy work, both in the public and the private sector. This capstone unit will consolidate your critical policy analysis skills, and build the knowledge and capacity to engage effectively with stakeholders and to effectively design and oversee policy. In this unit, you will have the opportunity to engage in work-integrated learning by evaluating and advising on a specific real world policy issue.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Analyse social policy and evaluate the role of policy in broader political, cultural and social contexts (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2)
- Engage with diverse stakeholders, including those from marginalised groups to design and oversee the successful implementation of policy (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2, 4.4)
- Evaluate the impacts and implications of a current policy problem, discuss options and make evidence-based recommendations (1.1, 1.3, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4)
- Present research findings, communicating and negotiating strategically and persuasively to diverse audiences (CLO 3.1, 3.2, 5.3)
- Apply teamwork skills and reflect upon effective collaboration (CLO 3.1, 3.3)
Content
Module 9 - Good Governance and Policy
- Introduction to critical policy skills
- Critical policy analysis in government
- Critical policy analysis in non-government organisations
- Cabinet submissions
- Stakeholder engagement, including marginalized communities
- Risk management
- Marginalisation and Indigenous perspectives
Learning Approaches
This capstone unit allows you to continue to build your community of practice and take an action learning approach to solving real world industry problems. You will work individually and with your team to evaluate the impacts and implications of a current policy problem and make evidence-based recommendations in the form of a cabinet submission. You will negotiate with your team to plan, theorise, take action and reflect on your experience.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
The following types of feedback will assist you to develop the knowledge and skills in this unit:
- Self-feedback in the form of online written reflections
- Peer feedback in the form of group discussion and online collaborative sessions
- Adaptive feedback in the form of online interactive learning activities
- Teacher feedback in the online collaborative sessions, discussion boards, and written feedback on assessment
Assessment
Overview
There are three pieces of summative assessment for this capstone unit, as well as ongoing formative assessment. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that you have both the necessary theoretical understanding and practical skills to effectively undertake different forms of critical policy analysis, along with the development of effective stakeholder and implementation strategies. Collaborative activities within your community of practice will serve as formative assessment, providing you with feedback from peers and the teaching team early in the unit that will assist you in completing the summative assessment.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Cover Sheet
You will work individually to critically evaluate the impacts and implications of a policy issue. Your summary will identify the main issues and key recommendations.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Self Reflection
This assessment piece is an individual self-reflection on how you participated in and contributed to, the group work associated with preparing a cabinet submission. You will use the template supplied to critically discuss your contribution and teamwork.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Cabinet Submission
Working in teams you will produce the body of a cabinet submission in accordance with the template provided.
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.
Resources
This unit will draw from real world documentation and additional readings and resources provided throughout the modules.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JQ45 Master of Justice
- Design approaches for working with a plurality of diverse stakeholders and communities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO5, Cover Sheet, Self Reflection, Cabinet Submission - Evaluate complex and sensitive problems of justice to inform evidence-based responses.
Relates to: ULO3, Cover Sheet, Cabinet Submission - Apply a range of communication modes to professionally and strategically interpret and convey critical information to diverse stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO4, Cover Sheet, Cabinet Submission - Examine how ethics, intersectionality and contextual factors converge to impact on and shape social justice issues.
Relates to: ULO1, Cover Sheet, Cabinet Submission