BUSN12002 - Professional Business Practice and Experience

Showing: 2026 HE Term 1
General Information

Unit Synopsis

Businesses are increasing wanting graduates who are work ready, who can apply their university developed knowledge, skills and attributes to successfully gain, maintain and participate in work and adapt to new contexts. Graduates want to develop knowledge, skills and attributes that enable them to future proof their careers. This unit achieves both of these purposes by providing you with the opportunity to consolidate your knowledge about your chosen profession/discipline through an authentic learning experience at your place of employment. You will undertake a project that will be a supervised project at an advanced level that relates to your discipline area. You will be assigned a supervisor who will guide, advise and mentor you throughout the project. The project will focus on a real issue at your workplace.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisite BUSN19002 Business Research Methodology.

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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026

Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Mixed Mode

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).

Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 0%
2. Reflective Practice Assignment 0%

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.

Past Exams

Previous Feedback

No previous feedback available

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.

Source: CQUGlobal Self-reflection
Feedback:
 Lack of student enrolments is a critical issue.

Recommendation:
 It is recommended to focus this unit as a term 3 offering to capture students who are not taking studies over the term 3 period. This would also enable students from other universities to engage with the unit. This is a condition of the NCP funding for CQU as a member of the consortium of universities participating in this program.

Action Taken:
 This unit has now been discontinued. Global Experience options have been transferred to the new unit BUSN13004 Professional practice and experience.
Unit Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Justify and communicate a project plan to investigate and analyse a business issue
  2. Critically analyse the relevance of the knowledge, skills and attributes developed through university studies to business contexts and future careers
  3. Investigate a business issue and develop solutions appropriate to the business context
  4. Critically reflect on the project experience to identify further areas of learning and professional development
  5. Synthesise university and practical business experience to demonstrate an understanding of self, careers, and the needs of businesses now and into the future.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment • • •
2 - Reflective Practice Assignment • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • • • • •
2 - Problem Solving •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence •
8 - Ethical practice •
9 - Social Innovation •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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