BPS3062 · Professional experience

Overview

BPS3062 is a full-year unit designed to provide you with a professional experience to prepare you for a career in pharmaceutical science and related industries. The first half of this unit (March-May) aims to prepare for your placement project. You will participate in activities to develop your job seeking, career planning and professional communication skills, such as writing resumes, and practising interview techniques. In the second half of the unit, you will complete a compulsory industry placement, which will give you the opportunity to expand your understanding of the industry and to hone your professional skills.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

In-semester assessment: 100 %. This unit is a pass grade only unit. This unit contains one or more competency hurdle assessment tasks that you must successfully complete to be able to pass the unit. You have one attempt, plus an additional assessment, to demonstrate your competency in the competency hurdle assessment task. If you fail to meet the hurdle requirement, you will receive a fail grade for the unit.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Identify areas of interest for your future career
2. Participate effectively in interviews and write a professional resume
3. Work safely and effectively in a professional environment
4. Propose and justify an approach to solving an industry-relevant problem
5. Conduct an industry-relevant project, including data documentation, analysis and interpretation
6. Communicate the project outcomes in written and oral form to a diverse audience of Pharmaceutical Science stakeholders
7. Reflect on your professional experience.

Workload

This unit is a combination of employability skills development workshops and interviews, and a four-week full time industry placement. P2001 students will complete the placement in the June-July period or in the July-August period. E3008 students will complete the placement in the June-July period. Exceptions to the above schedule may be approved, subject to host availability. • You will participate in placement training activities and undergo a placement selection process during the first half of the unit (10 hours of workshops and interviews). • 115 hours of full time professional experiential placements over 4 weeks. • 20 hours of independent study (preparation of the written report and the oral presentation).

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.