PARTICIPATORY FIELD PLACEMENT

PHE3PFP

2020

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject, you undertake a practice-based placement, either in a relevant external organisation or agency, or internally at La Trobe University. This allows you to engage in approved tasks designed to achieve specific learning objectives relating to continuous and life-long learning in a service-teaching mode. The aim of the subject is to give students an opportunity to integrate theoretical concepts, in a supervised setting, to expand relevant skills, knowledge and attitudes. This might be in the area of project development and implementation, for example. The seminar series accompanying the placement seeks to orient you to practical concerns of a work environment and to gain a broad perspective about potential employment possibilities.

School: Psychology and Public Health (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Susan Chong

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG

Exchange Students: No

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: Yes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Must be admitted into one of the following course codes: HBHS or HBHSB or ABABU and must have passed 240 credit points OR Must be admitted into one of the following course codes: HZHSB or HZHSID and must have passed 360 credit points

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: PHE3PFC OR PHE3PFA OR PHE3PFB

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: Students admitted in the Bachelor of Health Sciences - HBHS, HBHSB - (Public Health, Health Promotion, Rehabilitation Counselling or Sports Counselling and Athlete Welfare majors) are highly recommended to complete PHE3FPI prior to undertaking this subject.

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

Making the most of field placement

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Cleak, Helen & Wilson, Jill.

Year: 2018

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Publisher: Cengage Learning

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What Color is Your Parachute?

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Bolles, Richard Nelson

Year: 2019

Edition/Volume: N/A

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

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Career Ready

Career-focused: Yes

Work-based learning: Yes

Self sourced or Uni sourced: Self Sourced
Uni Sourced

Entire subject or partial subject: Partial subject

Total hours/days required: 80-120 hours

Location of WBL activity (region): Domestic - regional
Domestic - metro
International - metro

WBL addtional requirements: Immunisation, Working with Children checks, police checks and other requirements of host agency.

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Adaptability and Self-Management

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Ethical and Social Responsibility

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Apply knowledge, skills and attitudes through supervised activities in a field placement related to Health Promotion, Public Health, Health Sustainability, Rehabilitation Counselling, or Sports Counselling and Athlete Welfare

02. Demonstrate an ability to reflect on the experience of ethical practice in the field.

03. Examine and explain the practice frameworks that are used within a placement setting.

04. Evaluate the placement setting as a site for continuous learning using relevant discipline-based frameworks.

Bendigo, 2020, Semester 2, Blended

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Glenda Verrinder

Class requirements

Placement - Off SiteWeek: 31 - 43
One 15.00 days placement - off site per study period on any day including weekend during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via blended.
Approximately equivalence 10-15 days (8hr day) of 80-120 hours off-site

SeminarWeek: 31 - 43
Three 6.00 hours seminar per study period on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via face-to-face.
Weeks 31,37,43

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
Critical continuous learning site report (2,000-words)	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	45	SILO1, SILO3, SILO4
Position description (500-words)	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	15	SILO1
Oral presentation (500-words equivalent)	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	15	SILO1, SILO2, SILO3
Critical learning journal report (1,000-words)	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	25	SILO1, SILO2

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 2, Blended