| Effective Term: | 2025/20 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Professional Identity (Criminology and Criminal Justice) |
| Unit ID: | COOPK2204 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (ATSGC1283 and ATSGC1284) OR (CRJUS1283 and CRJUS1284) OR (CRJUS1285 and CRJUS1287) (At least 60 credit points from CRJUS subject-area at any level) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (CRJUS3203 and CRJUS3204) |
| ASCED: | 099903 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit assists students with their transition into employment by providing the knowledge and skills required to work in professional settings. Students will engage in active-learning designed to enable an enhanced understanding of professional practice, including professional boundaries, etiquette, and expectations. Students will reflect on and enhance their skills in a range of professional areas, which may include organisation, efficiency, and conflict management. Students will integrate the knowledge accumulated throughout the unit and apply it to future placement and employment experiences. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | |  | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Reflect on professional practice and examine the factors that shape professional identity |
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| K2. | Explore the nature of roles within and around the Criminal Justice setting, both government and non-government |
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| K3. | Explore the range of skills that are central to working effectively in professional settings |
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| K4. | Examine organisational policies, procedures, codes of conduct, and ethical obligations and the broader legislative context of professional practice |
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| K5. | Access and examine current employment opportunities in criminal justice and related settings and understand the processes used to recruit and select staff |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Develop critical reflection skills for professional practice |
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| S2. | Develop written and verbal communication skills to undertake professional practice |
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| S3. | Develop skills in applying for positions, including compiling a job application |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply an understanding of skills required to work with other professionals and other service providers |
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| A2. | Analyse and reflect on the nature of professional work, particularly in criminal justice related settings |
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| A3. | Apply knowledge of recruitment and selection methods and processes |
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| Unit Content: |
MODULE 1 (weeks 1,2,3) – Understanding professional work environments • Week 1: Professional identity • Week 2: Expectations in the professional workplace • Week 3: Working effectively within the professional setting MODULE 2 (weeks 4,5,6) – Industry overview • Week 4: Government roles • Week 5: Non-government and community-based roles • Week 6: Research and policy work MODULE 3 (weeks 7,8,9) – Professional skills • Week 7: Administration, organisation and reporting • Week 8: Leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution • Week 9: Client-facing skills and case management MODULE 4 (weeks 10,11,12) – Entering the workforce • Week 10: Career planning • Week 11: Job applications • Week 12: Interviews |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K2, K3, K4, S1, A1, A2 | Industry Insight Report | Written Report | 20-30% | | 2. | K1, K3, K5, S1, S2, S3, A1, A3 | Career Progression Plan (Evidence Mapping & Action Plan) | Written Response + ePortfolio | 25-45% | | 3. | K1, K2, K5, S2, S3, A1, A3 | Job Application | Written + Video Presentation | 25-45% |
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