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BUSN19024 - Advanced Professional Preparation

General Information

Unit Synopsis

The landscape of business, industry, and professional sectors is rapidly evolving, with emerging trends highlighting the essential capabilities required for graduate-level roles. To meet these changing expectations, this unit will prepare you for professional practice by developing the skills, knowledge, and attributes valued by both employers and clients. You will engage in self-awareness activities to better understand your strengths and career aspirations, and explore the expectations placed on professionals in your chosen field. You will learn how to craft targeted applications, refine your presentation techniques, and build a personal portfolio to support your career goals. You will also learn to use web-based technologies strategically to research opportunities and secure professional engagements. In addition, the unit will guide you through the ethical responsibilities, workplace norms, and mutual expectations that shape professional environments. This comprehensive preparation will support your confident transition into your chosen profession.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Students must successfully complete their first workplace learning / internship, BUSN12001 Business Internship, prior to commencing this unit.

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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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 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

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This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2020 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 87.50% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 22.86% response rate.

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: Student feedback and Unit Coordinator reflections.
Feedback
Informational interviews with professionals take time to arrange and difficulties can arise if they are not arranged in a timely manner.
Recommendation
Students are provided the details of how to organise this part of their final assessment by Week 2.
Action Taken
Students were provided with guidance on how to arrange informal interviews with professionals.
Source: Student feedback. Unit Coordinator reflections.
Feedback
The best aspect of the unit is completion of interviews through video link. Allow recording of online interviews for students' own records.
Recommendation
Continue to use Zoom for interviews and enable students to record the session for later review and reflection.
Action Taken
All interviews for both internal and distance students were conducted via Zoom with the capability to record the session.
Source: Have Your Say and unit coordinator.
Feedback
The current implementation of the selected learning and teaching philosophy works well.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the current unit learning and teaching philosophy and its current unit implementation is continued.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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