Australian Professional Experience

Course aim

To develop the practical competence of students through professionally relevant work experience.

Course content

The Australian Professional Experience is a 9 unit internship course which enables our students to gain real workplace experience. Students choose their own placement. The course is based around weekly interactions with the course coordinator to ensure that the student is able to maximise their educational and skill-based experience. The educational content includes an assignment which describes the workplace role. The second assignment builds on the first by reflecting on their achievements while on placement; specifically how the placement adds value to their career trajectory, with reference to UniSA’s Graduate Qualities. The student are then debriefed and assessed on their achievements. This is based on their performance during the placement, feedback from the workplace mentor, and on the quality of their reflections and educational and skill-based outcomes they gain from the course.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Successful completion of 36 units in an undergraduate degree.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, ONLINE (INTENSIVE)
External (Online activities)	39 hours x over 2 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Analysis of Workplace Experience, Description of Workplace Role, Weekly debriefing

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.250
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
To determine the fee for this course as part of a Commonwealth Supported program, go to:
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
International students and students undertaking this course as part of a postgraduate fee paying program must refer to the relevant program home page to determine the cost for undertaking this course.

Non-award enrolment
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Not all courses are available on all of the above bases, and students must check to ensure that they are permitted to enrol in a particular course.

* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.