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This capstone unit provides you with the opportunity to reflect upon what you have learned from your undergraduate psychology degree, and to apply your discipline-specific knowledge within a professional context. There will be a focus on the transition into the workforce or further study, including the opportunity to review and finalise your professional ePortfolio, and to reflect on your values and current competencies as a future professional in the field of psychology. You will work in a small team to complete an applied major group project to address a real-world problem faced by an external organisation. Working as scientist-practitioners, your project (such as a research proposal, grant application, literature review, intervention, or evaluation), will be based on contemporary research evidence and consideration of cultural and ethical issues, and will highlight your discipline-specific and professional knowledge and skills.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
96 credit points including PSYC13015 in CC43.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback, unit coordinator reflection, and feedback from CQUniversity Careers team.
Students continued to experience problems with using the Portfolium platform for their ePortfolio assessment.
Replace Portfolium with LinkedIn. This will require slight changes to assessment criteria, as well as new resources for how to use LinkedIn. The CQUniversity Careers team have resources for students already developed that can be incorporated into the unit.
Feedback from Unit Coordinator reflection.
Some groups did not adequately engage with industry partners, despite opportunities.
The unit coordinator will take a more active role in facilitating meetings between students and partner organisations.
Feedback from Unit Coordinator reflection.
A small number of students did not fully engage with their group for the capstone project.
Continue regular group check-ins and monitoring of groups. Provide students with resources for group work facilitation. Consider increasing the marks allocated to group participation.
Feedback from End of term student feedback
Students appreciated receiving feedback on their group project before the final presentation.
Continue to provide groups the opportunity to practice their pitch with the unit coordinator prior to the final industry pitch.
- Demonstrate career readiness and insight into the skills, knowledge and personal attributes necessary to meet the standards of performance and practice expected in the workplace.
- Develop creative solutions to issues faced in the workplace.
- Critically reflect on the learning associated with the capstone project and identify further areas of learning and professional development.
- Identify and display interpersonal skills and teamwork to a level commensurate with a professional workplace.
In this unit, students will achieve all of the graduate competencies as outlined by the Australian Psychological Accreditation Council (APAC) (https://www.psychologycouncil.org.au/standards). These include:
- Competency 1.1: Comprehend and apply a broad and coherent body of knowledge of psychology, with a depth of understanding of underlying principles, theories and concepts in the discipline, using a scientific approach.
- Competency 1.2: Apply knowledge and skills of psychology in a manner that is reflexive, culturally appropriate and sensitive to the diversity of individuals.
- Competency 1.3: Analyse and critique theory and research in the discipline of psychology and communicate these in written and oral formats
- Competency 1.4: Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate values and ethics in psychology
- Competency 1.5: Demonstrate interpersonal skills and teamwork
- Competency 1.6: Demonstrate self-directed pursuit of scholarly inquiry in psychology.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Group Work - 0% | ||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 0% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||