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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Youth Work Professional Placement
  • Unit Code

    YWK2113
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Brooke CHAPMAN

Description

In this unit, students have the opportunity to apply theoretical concepts learned in their studies to their role as a professional youth worker in the field. Students will undertake supervised practice and be required to demonstrate that they can perform satisfactorily in all aspects of the role of a novice professional youth worker. Students will explore their professional development needs and prepare for their future careers through a process of individual needs assessment, flexible self-directed learning and reflective practice. The unit has a field based practicum component.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass YWK1101 and YWK1220.

Students must be enrolled in C57 (Bachelor of Youth Work) or MAAAJE (Professional Youth Work major) to enrol in this unit. Students must complete 120 credit points before attempting this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded YWK3113.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop a professional e-portfolio that provides convincing evidence that satisfies the practice requirements of a professional youth worker.
  2. Use technologies competently as required in placement role and for production of a professional e-portfolio.
  3. Critically reflect upon feedback and interactions with supervisors regarding personal development and evaluation in the placement context.
  4. Apply ethical, autonomous and professional judgment, including how to anticipate, prevent and resolve difficult situations, seek sources of assistance and know when to ask for help, in the context of a placement role.

Unit Content

  1. Career building and effective e-portfolios, selection criteria and evidence for employment in youth work.
  2. Risk management, occupational health and safety awareness.
  3. Accountability in youth work environments.
  4. Opportunities to practice youth work skills in different contexts.
  5. Professional supervision in youth work, learning from practice and skills in reflective practice.
  6. Self-management and professional judgement.
  7. Ethical conduct in youth work, including practicalities of boundaries and appropriate relationships with colleagues and young people, team work.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full Year26 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops, online materials, simulation exercises, workplace placement/s, field participation.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ReviewProfessional Placement e-Portfolio Review (end of semester 1)
Portfolio ^Profesional Placement e-Portfolio final submission (end of semester 2)
ONLINE
TypeDescription
ReviewProfessional Placement e-Portfolio Review (end of semester 1)
Portfolio ^Profesional Placement e-Portfolio final submission (end of semester 2)

^ Mandatory to Pass


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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Youth Work Professional Placement
  • Unit Code

    YWK2113
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Brooke CHAPMAN

Description

In this unit, students have the opportunity to apply theoretical concepts learned in their studies to their role as a professional youth worker in the field. Students will undertake supervised practice and be required to demonstrate that they can perform satisfactorily in all aspects of the role of a novice professional youth worker. Students will explore their professional development needs and prepare for their future careers through a process of individual needs assessment, flexible self-directed learning and reflective practice. The unit has a field based practicum component.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass YWK1101 and YWK1220.

Students must be enrolled in C57 (Bachelor of Youth Work) or MAAAJE (Professional Youth Work major) to enrol in this unit. Students must complete 120 credit points before attempting this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded YWK3113.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop a professional e-portfolio that provides convincing evidence that satisfies the practice requirements of a professional youth worker.
  2. Use technologies competently as required in placement role and for production of a professional e-portfolio.
  3. Critically reflect upon feedback and interactions with supervisors regarding personal development and evaluation in the placement context.
  4. Apply ethical, autonomous and professional judgment, including how to anticipate, prevent and resolve difficult situations, seek sources of assistance and know when to ask for help, in the context of a placement role.

Unit Content

  1. Career building and effective e-portfolios, selection criteria and evidence for employment in youth work.
  2. Risk management, occupational health and safety awareness.
  3. Accountability in youth work environments.
  4. Opportunities to practice youth work skills in different contexts.
  5. Professional supervision in youth work, learning from practice and skills in reflective practice.
  6. Self-management and professional judgement.
  7. Ethical conduct in youth work, including practicalities of boundaries and appropriate relationships with colleagues and young people, team work.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full Year26 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops, online materials, simulation exercises, workplace placement/s, field participation.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ReviewProfessional Placement e-Portfolio Review (end of semester 1)
Portfolio ^Profesional Placement e-Portfolio final submission (end of semester 2)
ONLINE
TypeDescription
ReviewProfessional Placement e-Portfolio Review (end of semester 1)
Portfolio ^Profesional Placement e-Portfolio final submission (end of semester 2)

^ Mandatory to Pass


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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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