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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Psychology, Community and Work

  • Unit Code

    PSY3306

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

    N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ken Lennox ROBINSON

Description

This unit identifies and builds on the generic and specific skill base acquired by students in the course of their undergraduate training in psychology and how these skills may be transferred to specific workplace and community settings. The unit uses a structured assessment process to enable students to increase their knowledge about potential career choices after graduation.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically reflect on the application of psychology knowledge to personal work practices.
  2. Describe and explain sociocultural and international contexts that influence beliefs, values, and behaviour.
  3. Describe the different ways that psychology knowledge may be applied in the workplace.
  4. Design and maintain a skills portfolio that reflects current, prior and future learning relevant to psychology.
  5. Identify their own generic and specific skill base.

Unit Content

  1. Applications of psychology in the workplace.
  2. Ethical issues, values-based practices and professionalism in the workplace.
  3. Portfolio development.
  4. Traditional roles for psychologists.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and seminars.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
PortfolioPsychology work portfolio
AssignmentJob application and preparation notes
ONLINE
TypeDescription
PortfolioPsychology work portfolio
AssignmentJob application and preparation notes

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Psychology, Community and Work

  • Unit Code

    PSY3306

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

    N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ken Lennox ROBINSON

Description

This unit identifies and builds on the generic and specific skill base acquired by students in the course of their undergraduate training in psychology and how these skills may be transferred to specific workplace and community settings. The unit uses a structured assessment process to enable students to increase their knowledge about potential career choices after graduation.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically reflect on the application of psychology knowledge to personal work practices.
  2. Describe and explain sociocultural and international contexts that influence beliefs, values, and behaviour.
  3. Describe the different ways that psychology knowledge may be applied in the workplace.
  4. Design and maintain a skills portfolio that reflects current, prior and future learning relevant to psychology.
  5. Identify their own generic and specific skill base.

Unit Content

  1. Applications of psychology in the workplace.
  2. Ethical issues, values-based practices and professionalism in the workplace.
  3. Portfolio development.
  4. Traditional roles for psychologists.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and seminars.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
PortfolioPsychology work portfolio
AssignmentJob application and preparation notes
ONLINE
TypeDescription
PortfolioPsychology work portfolio
AssignmentJob application and preparation notes

Core Reading(s)

  • White, L. (2015). Write a winning job application : a guide to responding to selection criteria. Perth, W.A.: Lloyd White. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/929986769?databaseList=638

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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