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FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES School of BEHAVIOURAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES Brisbane (McAuley), Melbourne (St Patricks), and North Sydney (Mackillop) SEMESTER 2, 2020 BMSC301: Industry Immersion 1 UNIT OUTLINE Credit points: 10 Prerequisites: UNCC100 Self and Community: Exploring the Anatomy of Modern Society AND BMSC201 Communicating Ideas in Science National and North Sydney Lecturer in Charge: Dr Jennifer Taylor Office location: Room 532.7.08, Level 7 Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier St Email: [email protected] Telephone: 02 9739 2874 North Sydney teaching staff: Mrs Nancy McKenzie Office location: Room 532.7.11, Level 7 Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier St Email: [email protected] Telephone: 02 9465 9280 Brisbane Lecturer in Charge: Dr Clare Flakelar Office location: Room 208.2.08, 1100 Nudgee Road Email: [email protected] Telephone: 07 3623 6257 Melbourne Lecturer in Charge: Ms Laurine Hurley Office location: Melbourne campus, Mary Glowrey building, room 420-3-67 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 03 9230 8202 Melbourne teaching staff: Emily Krawec Email: [email protected] Contacting staff: Please contact teaching staff by email in the first instance, stating your student ID, unit code and campus. Staff will endeavour to reply within 2 business days.

UNIT RATIONALE, DESCRIPTION AND AIM The skills developed by students studying the sciences are valued by employers, and these graduates can enter a wide range of employment fields, including further study, after their courses. Employers, particularly those in the rapidly-developing fields of science, health and medicine, are looking for attributes well beyond mere technical ability, and thus problem-solving and communication skills (‘employability skills’) are considered particularly important for success in the industry. Even when students have developed these abilities in their biomedical science classes, it can be difficult to demonstrate to potential employers how they can put them into practice. Work-integrated-Learning (WiL) is recognised as a valuable way to help students to adapt and apply the skills and knowledge they have gained during the course to a high-skills workplace, and to understand the function of such workplaces, including ‘workplace culture’. Students will have the opportunity to identify skills important for their future careers, reflect on their own work readiness through examination of the employability skills framework, and address any skills inadequacies through specific training. They are encouraged to seek workplace experiences that will enable them to further develop these skills. The learning activities and assessments in the unit are designed to support students as they gain evidence of these skills and of their ability to contribute to a workplace. The module on working with children, young people and vulnerable adults helps students to develop skills in keeping themselves and others safe and supporting children, young people, and vulnerable adults. This unit aims to prepare students for commencing work by identifying and consolidating requisite workplace skills, including the development of a professional resumé, a job application, and interview skills. Mode: Attendance live online and on-campus. Due to COVID 19 most weekly workshops will be delivered online, but some classes are currently scheduled for on-campus deliver. This may vary among campuses, please check LEO for updates Attendance pattern: Equivalent of 3-hours per week of workshop. To ensure that students meet the stated learning outcomes, engagement in ALL activities is expected. In workshops you will be interacting with other students and developing skills which you will use in your professional experience. Students who do not attend are at risk of not developing these essential skills and of not achieving the required learning outcomes for the unit. Duration: This unit is offered across a 12-week semester. You should anticipate undertaking 150 hours of study for this unit, including class attendance, readings and assessment preparation. Attendance expectations: To ensure that students meet the stated learning outcomes, attendance and engagement in ALL on-campus and online activities is expected. Attendance at classes where an assessment is being held or where a core competency / skill is being taught is compulsory. Please check the Study Schedule for a list of classes where mandatory attendance is required due to an assessment being held or a core competency / skill being taught. Students who miss a compulsory class due to reasons wholly outside of their control must submit the SoBHS Attendance Form (available on LEO) and a special consideration form. This form must be accompanied by medical or legal documentary evidence. Students should do this as soon as possible, but no later than 5 working days after the missed class. If deemed eligible, the student will be provided with make-up work, to be completed within a deadline set by the Lecturer-inCharge. . If you miss an assessment task and do NOT meet the eligibility criteria, you will receive a score of zero for that assessment.

The on-campus and online workshops are designed for you to develop important workplace skills as you interact with other students. Students who do not attend are at risk of not developing these essential skills and of not achieving the required learning outcomes for the unit.

LEARNING OUTCOMES On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to: 1. Identify relevant work readiness skills, practices and attitudes that contribute to employability in a biomedical setting (GA4, 5, 8, 9); 2. Identify gaps in their own skills set and work readiness skills, and explain how their individual employability skills and attributes would contribute to the purposes, structure and functions of an organisation (GA4, 5, 10); 3. Explain the importance, policies and strategies for building safe and supportive environments for working with children, young people, and vulnerable adults (GA1, 2, 3, 5); 4. Apply an understanding of oneself, and a role within an organisation, to make a case for employment (GA1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10). GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES Each unit in your course contributes in some way to the development of the ACU Graduate Attributes which you should demonstrate by the time you complete your course. All Australian universities have their expected graduate attributes – ACU’s Graduate Attributes have a greater emphasis on ethical behaviour and community responsibility than those of many other universities. All of your units will enable you to develop some attributes. On successful completion of this unit, you should have developed your ability to: GA1 demonstrate respect for the dignity of each individual and for human diversity GA2 recognise your responsibility to the common good, the environment and society GA3 apply ethical perspectives in informed decision making GA4 think critically and reflectively GA5 demonstrate values, knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to the discipline and/or profession GA8 locate, organise, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information GA9 demonstrate effective communication in oral and written English language and visual media GA10 utilise information and communication and other relevant technologies effectively CONTENT Topics will include: •

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Applying for work o Resumé preparation o Selection criteria o Writing a job application o Interview skills Work readiness skills o Communication o Time management o Planning Understanding the job market

QUALITY ASSURANCE AND STUDENT FEEDBACK This unit has been evaluated through the ‘Student Evaluation of Learning and Teaching’ (SELT) online surveys. There have been changes to the content and flow of this unit based on feedback from students and staff. Assessments have been re-designed to provide a logical, self-developmental structure to better prepare students for employment within the biomedical workforce. Adjustments to assessment information and rubrics for all assessments were introduced in Semester 1, 2020 to provide easier interpretation of the tasks. SELT surveys are usually conducted at the end of the teaching period. Your practical and constructive feedback is valuable to improve the quality of the unit. Please ensure you complete the SELT survey for the unit. You can also provide feedback at other times to the unit lecturers, course coordinators and/or through student representatives. LEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGY AND RATIONALE Students focus on developing their own knowledge and skills for the tasks of finding and undertaking employment, while investigating how their biomedical science knowledge and skills may contribute to the work of a chosen organisation. The immersion of students in mock work-seeking scenarios provides an authentic experience, enabling them to develop key skills to assist in their transition to the workplace post-university. Students will develop a resumé and job application, using online tools and templates as well as inclass activities to access best practice in resumé writing and interview preparation. Students will reflect on employability skills in the biomedical science sector, using validated surveys and open source training to identify and address their individual skills gaps. Reflection on learnings here will feed back into refinement of the resumé and application. LECTURE CAPTURE Workshops are delivered live online or on-campus. Most online workshops will be recorded and uploaded. On-campus sessions are generally not recorded. This may differ among campuses or be subject to change due to current conditions in each state. More detail will be provided at the start of the semester and updates provided throughout the semester. As each week’s activities link directly to your assessments, attendance is expected at each class. SCHEDULE This schedule is an approximate sequence of topics. This may vary among campuses or to meet current circumstances in each state. For up-to-date information and campus-specific schedules, please check your campus LEO unit and note advice from your lecturing and tutoring staff. Notes and assessments. Each week’s activities relate directly to an assessment task as shown below. Assessment due dates in red.

Week

Starting

Workshop content and selfdirected work

1

27 July 2020

Understanding the job market: An introduction

Related to AT1

2

3 Aug. 2020

Understanding myself: Your professional identity and skills

Related to AT1

3

10 Aug. 2020

Understanding myself: Developing a Curriculum Vitae (CV) / resumé and addressing selection criteria

Related to AT2

4

17 Aug. 2020

Understanding myself: Building the right job application

Related to AT2 and AT3

Week

Starting

Workshop content and selfdirected work

Notes and assessments. Each week’s activities relate directly to an assessment task as shown below. Assessment due dates in red.

5

24 Aug. 2020

Understanding myself: Feedback on CV/resumé, and selection criterion

Related to AT 2 and AT3 Assessment 1 due 30 Aug. 2020, 11.55pm

6

31 Aug. 2020

Understanding myself: Part of a team

Related to AT2 and AT3

7

7 Sept. 2020

Entering the job market: “Selling yourself” to an employer

Related to AT2 and AT3

8

14 Sept. 2020

Entering the job market: Application of “STAR” – interview techniques, preparation and practice

Related to AT3 HURDLE TASK due 14 Sept. 2020, 11.55pm

9

21 Sept. 2020

Entering the job market: Simulated interviews

Related to AT3 NOTE: The simulated interview is a compulsory task and forms a major part of AT3. Students are to confirm the date and time for their interview with their LIC. Assessment 2 due 27 Sept. 2020 11.55pm

28 Sept. 2020 UA Vacation Week (Study week) 10

11

12

5 Oct. 2020

Entering the job market: Simulated interviews

Related to AT3

12 Oct. 2020

Entering the job market: Reflective practice and skills for on-going personal development

Related to AT3

19 Oct. 2020

Entering the job market: Industry Day

Related to AT3 and to the units: BMSC302 and HLSC301

26 Oct. 2020

Study Week

Assessment 3 due 1 November 2020 11.55pm

NOTE: The simulated interview is a compulsory task and forms a major part of AT3. Students are to confirm the date and time for their interview with their LIC.

NOTE: Interview feedback returned during this workshop forms a major part of AT3.

NOTE: This schedule is a general unit overview, and subject to local campus variation. Students should refer to their local schedule on their local campus LEO site.

ASSESSMENT STRATEGY AND RATIONALE The assessment in this unit focuses on real world tasks that will assist you as you enter the workforce or further study after you graduate. The assessment strategy used in this unit is the development of a portfolio. The assessments focus on real world tasks in the process of finding, experiencing and reflecting on work, ensuring that students produce outputs that are specifically useful in the employment process. This enables

students to curate evidence of their individual skills and attributes that are valuable for their potential employers. The assessment tasks allow students to focus on transferable skills developed through their degree as well as reflecting on how the content learned relates to potential workplace experience and its applicability in the wider workspace. In order to pass this unit, you are required to achieve a final grade of 50% or better as an aggregate score of all points from assessment tasks completed. If your final grade is between 40 and 49%, you may be eligible for a supplementary assessment to provide you with another opportunity to pass the unit. To be eligible for a supplementary assessment, you must have successfully met all other requirements of the unit, and you cannot have failed any other unit in the semester. If you do not attend or submit an assessment task and have approved documentation, you will be given an alternate task as decided by your LIC The assessment tasks for this unit are designed for you to demonstrate your achievement of each learning outcome. This unit comprises a hurdle (H) and three summative (S) assessment items. The supplementary assessment will be in the form of an additional, new, assessment task sat during the deferred exam period. You must score 50% or greater on this assessment to pass the unit. If you pass this assessment, your grade will convert from NF to PA, and your final percentage will be recorded as 50%. Please note that University policy requires students to be available throughout the periods designated for central examinations, including supplementary and deferred examinations, as published in the common academic calendar. Therefore, if you are offered a supplementary assessment, it is our expectation that you are available at this time; vacations, and failure to check your ACU email account are not considered acceptable reasons for special consideration.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION, MARKING AND RETURN All assessment tasks will be submitted and returned via LEO. Turn-it-in will be used in this unit. Details of the submission, marking and return processes are provided separately for each assessment task below, with more detail on LEO. ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE

Assessment tasks

Due Date

Weighting (%)

Learning outcome(s) assessed

Graduate attributes assessed

0

LO3

GA1, 2, 3, 5

ACU Child-safe Organisations - online module (HURDLE) Online multiple choice or short answer questions. Note: Completion of this module does not exempt students from seeking a Working with Children Card or a Police Check where this is appropriate or mandated.

14 Sept. 2020 (Week 8)

Assessment tasks

Due Date

Weighting (%)

Learning outcome(s) assessed

Graduate attributes assessed

30 Aug. 2020 (Week 5)

15

LO1, 2

GA4, 5, 8, 9, 10

27 Sept. 2020 (Week 9)

35

LO1, 2

GA4, 5, 8, 9, 10

1 Nov. 2020 (Study week)

50

LO1, 2, 4

GA1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10

Assessment 1: Understanding the job market (S) Students choose jobs/roles relevant to biomedical sciences and identify skills required in these. They also undertake research on the sectors and host organisations. The task mimics the type of research undertaken by a job-seeker. Students write a report of their findings. Assessment 2: Understanding myself (S) This task requires students to reflect on themselves in terms of their personality and skill set. Students will submit a personality-type assessment, skills audit, and a generic resumé, together with a reflection on these. Assessment 3: Entering the job market (S) This task requires students to integrate the knowledge and skills from Assessments 1 and 2 and mimics the process of applying for a job. Students choose one job from a selection offered and produce a submission for the position. A mock interview for the position will be held, and students will write a reflection on the whole process.

HURDLE TASK Child-safe Organisations - online module (H) A hurdle task is a task or activity that is marked on a pass/fail basis and is required to pass the unit but does not contribute to the final grade.

Due date:

14 September 2020, by 11.55pm (Week 8)

Length and/or format:

Single page completion certificate downloaded from the module and saved in pdf format.

Purpose:

This assessment provides an opportunity for you to undertake some specific targeted training in working with vulnerable people. This is a requirement of your undergraduate degree program.

Learning outcomes assessed: LO3 How to submit:

Via the appropriate link in LEO.

Return of assignment:

Returned on LEO within three weeks.

Assessment criteria:

Staff will assess if the completion certificate is valid.

ASSESSMENT 1 Understanding the Job Market (S) Jobs/roles relevant to biomedical sciences will be selected and analysed on a basis of skills required and the host organisation. The task mimics the type of research that a job-seeker would undertake. Due date:

30 August 2020, by 11:55pm (Week 5)

Weighting:

15%

Length and/or format:

Written analysis of the job market in the biomedical science sector. Refer to the assessment rubric and information on LEO for guidelines on length and format.

Purpose:

To assist students develop the ability to identify employment opportunities, determine how their skills align with those sought by potential employers, and reflect on their suitability and willingness to work in particular roles.

Learning outcomes assessed:

LO1 and LO2

How to submit:

Via the appropriate link in LEO.

Return of assignment:

Via LEO within three weeks.

Assessment criteria:

Marks will be allocated for adherence to instructions, relevance of information to the biomedical science discipline, evidence supporting analysis of organisation, effectiveness of visual communication, comprehensiveness of analysis of organisation, structure, clarity and quality of communication. More detail...