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Professional Practice in Ageing (POPH90261)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
July
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
OR
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: Contact Stop 1
Future Students:
- Further Information: MSPGH Website
- Email: Enquiry Form
Overview
| Availability | July - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject is one of two subject options available within the Master of Ageing that will be accepted as part of the capstone experience. Both capstone subjects draw on and integrate disciplinary knowledge and skills to build up the foundational subjects in the course and provide a culminating experience.
Students extend the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the course into a professional practice setting to further their learning whilst addressing actual issues. It requires autonomy and expert
judgement in the application of specialised knowledge and skills acquired previously in the course.
This subject is designed to be taken by students who want to consolidate their training in the course via an advanced professional work placement. Students will solve problems that arise in practical settings and professional contexts to develop an integrated understanding of knowledge and practice. Students will undertake a supervised professional work placement with an appropriate organisation, approved by the subject coordinator, as well as participate in online discussions and assessments throughout the subject.
Each professional practice experience will be individually tailored and negotiated by the student, the host organisation and the subject coordinator. Students will apply their academic knowledge to real-world challenges that will contribute to their development of specialist and professional skill set in the ageing field.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Plan and execute a professionally focused project.
- Apply, integrate and synthesise knowledge and skills acquired throughout the course to tackle real-world challenges that address ageing.
- Analyse, evaluate and propose practical solutions to issues identified within the assigned projects for the professional practice experience.
- Demonstrate problem-solving whilst working with potentially unstructured and incomplete information.
- Critically review and reflect upon key professional attributed sought by employers, such as clear communication and interpersonal skills, project management skills, team work and initiative.
- Produce original work in an appropriate format which demonstrates analytical, research and problem-solving skills.
Generic skills
Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice and reinforce:
- Capacity for Initiative, autonomy and organisational skills;
- Finding, evaluating and using relevant information;
- Flexibility, adaptability and time management skills as a result of their participation in the workplace;
- Ability to communicate effectively (oral and written) in a professional workplace and to work with and interact with a wide range of people inside and outside the host organisations, including working in teams;
- Understand organisational culture and ethics, work practices, and the diversity of workplaces;
- Demonstrate analytical, problem-solving research, and report-writing skills;
- Capacity for lifelong learning, self-reliance and professional development.
Last updated: 3 November 2022