UWA Handbook 2025

Unit Overview

Description

This Pass/Fail unit comprises a work placement, supported by a short series of seminars and personal meetings with academic unit coordinators in which each student is able to discuss their work placement. Students undertake a work placement, usually in a business setting outside the University sector, of 80 hours. They acquire an understanding of the requirements of employment in the workplace; an understanding of the job application process and the practical skills of self-auditing, job searching, job application preparation and interview techniques in the employment process; and identify transition issues relevant to, and the cultural change required by, the new employee. Students complete reports and presentations for further assessment.

Credit

6 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Semester 1	UWA (Perth)	Face to face
Semester 2	UWA (Perth)	Face to face
Semester 1	Albany	Face to face
Semester 2	Albany	Face to face

Details for undergraduate courses

• Level 2 core unit in the Agricultural Science and Technology; Agricultural Technology; Agribusiness and Agricultural Science; Agribusiness major sequences
• Level 2 option in the Geographical and Spatial Science major sequence
• Level 2 elective

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) identify and apply practical skills and theoretical knowledge learned in their undergraduate degree to a workplace setting; (2) identify personal skills gained through the placement experience and reflect on the transference of those skills to future workplace settings; (3) plan, participate and report on a supervised project (or series of projects) conducted during the placement; (4) describe how to write a job application and exhibit good interview techniques as required to assist them find employment in industry; and (5) describe issues in employment in relation to contracts, ethics, OSH, and duty of care.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) work placement in industry; (2) written assessment; and (3) presentation seminars. Further information is available in the unit outline.

To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the written assessment and presentation seminars components.

This unit is assessed on an ungraded pass/ungraded failed basis. All assessment items must be successfully completed.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Karen Wallman

Unit rules

Prerequisites

Successful completion of

48 credit points in your chosen degree and a successful application into the WIL Placement Program

and enrolment in

a course
or major under the School of Agriculture and Environment, Engineering, Sciences (including Biological, Biomedical, Earth, Human, and Molecular disciplines), Physics, Mathematics and Computing
or Psychological Science

Contact hours

lectures: 4 hours during semester
work placement: 80 hours

Note

Students may find application instructions and deadlines by visiting the Work Integrated Learning webpage.

Please note: at this level, clinical placements are not available.