MPS5303 · Career tools: Bridging the gap

Overview

This unit prepares you for placement and employment in the pharmaceutical science sector in an industry or research laboratory setting, by helping you to develop a range of interpersonal, management and other career-relevant skills. Your skill development will take place in the context of sustainability and corporate social responsibility as foundations for the ongoing ethical practice of pharmaceutical science. Upon completing this unit, you will possess a suite of professional skills and qualities that will allow you to maximise your engagement in a short-term placement, as well as an ongoing career, in the pharmaceutical and allied industries.

Offerings

Assessment

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

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 capped at 50% of the available marks for the task, 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 regardless of the total marks you achieve.

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

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate, reflect upon and develop career-essential skills
2. Use evidence to demonstrate growth in interpersonal, management and/or career skills
3. Critically evaluate how sustainability in the pharmaceutical industry is governed by complex economic, regulatory and policy regimes and analyse the influence of this environment on stakeholder actions
4. Effectively construct and communicate critical and analytical arguments of sustainability worldviews and philosophies in a team context
5. Develop the professional skills to engage in an industry-based or laboratory-based research project.

Workload

• 20 hours of enquiry-based preparation for classes • 30 hours of workshops • 8 hours of assessment • 60 hours of independent work • 24 hours of group work

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