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IBL2030

Faculty of Science

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

12 points, SCA Band 2, 0.250 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Science

Coordinator(s)

Dr Andrew Greenhill

Offered

Gippsland

  • First semester (extended) 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester (extended) 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Students undertake discipline-related work in a full time, paid industrial placement of minimum 24 weeks. For admission to the cooperative education program, students participate in a selection process and are short-listed based on academic performance, interpersonal and communication skills and employer requirements. Students negotiate and undertake a learning contract with their workplace and academic supervisors, in response to the requirements of their role, focusing on personal and professional development, understanding their environment at the team, organisation and industry level, and development of scientific skills and knowledge.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will be able to:

  1. Integrate knowledge, skills and understanding gained in the classroom and laboratory settings;

  1. Relate scientific knowledge and skills gained in coursework to productive employment experience;

  1. Apply their expertise to real-world problems.

Assessment

Attendance, Learning contract, Journal (3000 words), Employer and self evaluations, Final report (4000 words) and oral presentation (Pass Grade Only).

Workload requirements

Industrial placement for at least 24 weeks full-time employment

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Chris Thompson

Prerequisites

1. Admission to cooperative education program.
2. Satisfactory completion of the work placement training sessions and the two work placements of 10 days in Year 1 and 15 days in Year 2.
3. Completion of at least 84 points of studies creditable to course, normally consisting of at last seven 6-point units in each of the first two years of studies.

Prohibitions

IBL2020