Unit Overview
- Description
This unit develops students' awareness of the workplace across a range of settings with a specific focus on the importance of skill attainment and preparedness for workplace experience. The unit demonstrates strategies to effectively contribute to a workplace, safety principles and reflective practices that can be applied to support professional development. The unit is delivered in three asynchronous modules.
Module #1: Establishing professional foundations
Students will learn and apply workplace principles around personal and professional conduct and basic role expectations to function in a workplace environment. Students will analyse and apply the principles and concepts as they relate to safe work practices.
Module #2: Workplace communication and performance
Students will adopt clear communication techniques and an understanding of feedback mechanisms as well as a proactive approach to networking in workplace settings. Students will learn to apply effective planning and organisation techniques as well as methods to demonstrate initiative in a workplace setting.
Module #3: Workplace engagement and reflective development
Students will develop a tailored placement plan to set objectives, manage expectations and optimise outcomes from their work experience. Students will formulate and develop reflective practice skills and apply them to the context of career growth.
The unit is intended to be taken throughout the calendar year to fit around work and study commitments.
- Credit
- 6 points
- Offering
Availability Location Mode First year of offer Not available in 2026 UWA (Perth) On-campus - Details for undergraduate courses
- Level 2 elective
- Outcomes
Students are able to (1) identify professional workplace behaviour and expectations; (2) apply workplace safety principles; (3) communicate effectively and apply feedback in workplace contexts; (4) apply professional workplace skills in planning and organisation; (5) formulate a professional placement plan; and (6) identify principles of reflective practice in a workplace setting.
- Assessment
Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) quizzes and (2) assignment. Further information is available in the unit outline.
This unit is assessed on an ungraded pass/ungraded failed basis. All assessment items must be successfully completed.Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.
- Unit Coordinator(s)
- Professor Zach Aman
- Unit rules
- Prerequisites
- Successful completion ofWILG1002 Career Preparation
- Incompatibility
- Enrolment inBW001 Bachelor of Arts (Integrated Professional)or Enrolment inBW002 Bachelor of Commerce (Integrated Professional)or Enrolment inBW004 Bachelor of Science (Integrated Professional)or Enrolment in
or Successful completion ofWILG2001 Professional Preparation
- Contact hours
- Asynchronous content totalling 150 hours, including approximately 30 hours of recorded video/lecture content.
- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of publication but may be subject to change.
- All students are responsible for identifying when they need assistance to improve their academic learning, research, English language and numeracy skills; seeking out the services and resources available to help them; and applying what they learn. Students are encouraged to register for free online support through GETSmart; to help themselves to the extensive range of resources on UWA's STUDYSmarter website; and to participate in WRITESmart and (ma+hs)Smart drop-ins and workshops.
- Visit the Essential Textbooks website to see if any textbooks are required for this Unit. The website is updated regularly so content may change. Students are recommended to purchase Essential Textbooks, but a limited number of copies of all Essential Textbooks are held in the Library in print, and as an ebook where possible. Recommended readings for the unit can be accessed in Unit Readings directly through the Learning Management System (LMS).
- Contact hours provide an indication of the type and extent of in-class activities this unit may contain. The total amount of student work (including contact hours, assessment time, and self-study) will approximate 150 hours per 6 credit points.
Face to face
Predominantly face-to-face. On campus attendance required to complete this unit. May have accompanying resources online.
Online flexible
100% Online Unit. NO campus face-to-face attendance is required to complete this unit. All study requirements are online only. Unit is asynchronous delivery, with NO requirement for students to participate online at specific times.
Online timetabled
100% Online Unit. NO campus face-to-face attendance is required to complete this unit. All study requirements are online only. Unit includes some synchronous components, with a requirement for students to participate online at specific times.
Online Restricted
Not available for self-enrolment. Students access this mode by contacting their student office through AskUWA. 100% Online Unit.
NO campus face-to-face attendance. All study and assessment requirements are online only. Unit includes some timetabled activities, with a requirement for students to participate online at specific times. In exceptional cases (noted in the Handbook) students may be required to participate in face-to-face laboratory classes when a return to UWA’s Crawley campus becomes possible in order to be awarded a final grade.
External
No attendance or regular contact is required, and all study requirements are completed either via correspondence and/or online submission.
Off-campus
Regular attendance is not required, but student attends the institution face to face on an agreed schedule for purposes of supervision and/or instruction.
Multi-mode
Multiple modes of delivery. Unit includes a mix of online and on-campus study requirements. On campus attendance for some activities is required to complete this unit.