A professional internship or work placement provides you with experience in a professional environment relevant to your chosen discipline. The process of combining theoretical knowledge with practical experience will assist you in understanding the relevance of material presented during discipline studies and further expand your professional knowledge and work-readiness with practical experience. Following a detailed application and selection process in the term prior to your BUSN20020 enrolment term, once you are placed with a host organisation, you will be engaged in work-integrated learning (WIL) while being supported by the School of Business and Law. You will undertake applied organisational research with a focus on your host organisation's approach to systems, processes and strategies related to your discipline, i.e. human resource management, marketing, management or accounting, with a view to improving organisational effectiveness. You will also be required to document and reflect on your work placement experiences to assess professional growth, recognise and evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, and develop an action plan for future professional development. This unit involves a company placement, either self-sourced by students, or organised and coordinated by a number of internship providers (external companies contracted by CQU to manage this aspect of the internship unit for Postgraduate business students). This unit involves some on-campus classes as well as an intensive placement in a host organisation. Because of the involvement of these external host organisations and internship providers, this unit is only available to full-time on-campus international students normally based on the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane campuses. The unit assessment centres upon an organisational analysis, an applied research project on a particular aspect of your host organisation’s operations, and a personal reflection
Level | Postgraduate |
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Unit Level | 9 |
Credit Points | 12 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
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Enrolment in this unit is subject to your successful application through the SONIA internship system early in the term prior to your final term of enrolment. This process will involve lodging a formal application through SONIA, an examination of your academic record, then interviews with external organisations including possible host organisations. Students may choose to self-source an internship, but all self-sourced placements must be approved and vetted, and students must nonetheless apply through the SONIA system, following the same timeframes as all other students. Placements through an internship provider are not guaranteed, but unsuccessful students will be notified in time for the School to facilitate enrolment in alternative electives. Once accepted for placement in a host organisation, students will follow normal office hours for four days per week over 10 consecutive weeks for the work placement component of BUSN20020. Students cannot self-enrol in this unit; only students who have been successful in securing an approved internship in a host organisation, and who meet the other requirements of this unit, will be enrolled into BUSN20020 by the WIL team. The Postgraduate Business Internships Moodle site outlines all application processes in detail. 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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
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).
Each 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
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%).
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Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 57.14% response rate.
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.