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Diploma of Prof. Practice - 7018
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Program Description
Program Objectives
Program Structure
Sample Program
General Education Requirements
Honours
Academic Rules
Fees
Area(s) of Specialisation

Program Summary

 
Faculty: DVC (A) Board of Studies
 
 
Contact: www.dpp.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Typical Duration: 1 Years
 
 
Typical UOC Per Semester: 6
 
 
Min UOC Per Semester: 6
 
 
Max UOC Per Semester: 24
 
 
Min UOC For Award: 48
 
 
Award(s):
 
 
Diploma of Professional Practice
 
 

Program Description

The Diploma of Professional Practice (click here to visit the DPP website) aims to provide students with opportunities to further enhance their capabilities, skills and knowledge to pursue professional careers nationally and internationally.

Feedback from employers shows that while they value academic achievements, they also seek graduates who have the necessary skills to be effective in the workplace, are globally aware, and have the potential to be future leaders. Students will develop the employability skills sought by graduate employers through formal work placement opportunities and courses aimed at developing global citizenship and leadership.

During the placements students will reflect upon themselves as professional practitioners and develop their skills in global citizenship and effective leadership and teamwork. On completion of the Diploma students will have developed a deeper understanding of, and capability for, leadership, and professional practice in the workplace and the international community. They will have increased their competitiveness in the graduate recruitment process and their ongoing career management skills.

The Diploma of Professional Practice is equivalent to one year of fulltime study and consists of 48 units of credit. It is designed to be taken on a part-time basis and concurrently with an undergraduate program. To facilitate this concurrency the program is delivered in blended learning delivery mode.

Please note that this program is not available to:

- ADFA students

Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes

1. Scholars who are:
  • capable of independent and collaborative enquiry
  • rigourous in their analysis, critique and reflection
  • ethitical practioners capable of effective communication
  • information litertae
  • digitally literate
2. Professionals who are:
  • capable of independent, self-directed learning
  • capable of operating within an agreed Code of Practice
3. Global Citizens who are:
  • culturaly aware and capable of respecting diversity and acting in socially just/responsive ways
4. Leaders who are:
  • collaborative team members

Program Structure

Students are required to complete courses from 4 related groups:

Group A (18UOC) - Courses provide students with an introduction to the central concepts of professional practice, and workplace, global citizenship, leadership, and thereby opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to plan, engage in, and critically reflect upon their experience and learning during their work placements.

Group B (12UOC) - Courses are electives, selected from a wide range of undergraduate courses and may be credited from the concurrent undergraduate program. The electives provide students with opportunities to either:
  • further prepare themselves for their work placement by undertaking courses that provide them with particular knowledge, skills and/or dispositions necessary to work effectively in their proposed Professional Practice (PP) settings (e.g., language/indigenous/legal/cultural studies); or
  • increase their effectiveness during the PP.
Group C (12UOC) - Courses provide students with opportunities to:
  • develop, negotiate and arrange a plan for their period of Professional Practice (PP);
  • prepare themselves for their period of PP;
  • complete their period of PP; and
  • critically reflect upon their performance in their chosen PP setting; or
  • reflect on the contribution of their community service activities to their development as leaders, professional practitioners, and global citizens.
Group D (6UOC) – The capstone course provides students with opportunities to demonstrate, via a portfolio, how they have developed their capabilities as professional practitioners, leaders and global citizens through completion of the Diploma.

Admission and enrolment
Students normally apply for admission to the program on completion of the first semester of their undergraduate studies. Admission is by application directly to the University.

Students can enrol in the program concurrently with their undergraduate degree program, and would typically take some Diploma courses in the Summer Term as well as Semester 1 and Semester 2.

List of courses

Group A (18UOC)
Group B (12UOC)

Elective 1 Elective (6UOC)

Elective 2 Elective (6UOC)
See Academic Rules section for further information on electives.

Group C (12UOC)
Group D (6UOC) - Capstone

Sample Program

N/A

General Education Requirements

N/A

Honours

N/A

Academic Rules

  1. The program requires completion of 48UOC.
  2. A minimum of 36 units of credit must be completed within the DPP.
  3. Students can enrol in the DPP concurrently with their primary undergraduate degree program with the approval of their primary program authority.
  4. Students will normally be able to enrol in the DPP after first semester if they are in good standing. Offers will be conditional until students are confirmed as being in good standing.
  5. Students who wish to complete the DPP after completion of their primary undergraduate degree program will need to apply for admission and enrol in the DPP before they complete their primary degree.
  6. International students who do not complete the DPP before completing their primary program will be issued with a new eCOE to allow the student to apply for an extension of their Visa to complete the DPP.
  7. Students will only be able to overload by 6 UOC in the DPP and the primary undergraduate degree program in Semesters 1 and 2.
  8. Students will be able to enrol in a maximum of 18 UOC in Summer Term.
  9. Students are required to complete courses from 4 related groups.
  10. Group A, C and D courses are compulsory.
  11. Group B Electives must be from the Prescribed List of Electives (PLE) approved by the DPP Program Office. Students who wish to count electives which are not on the PLE will need to make an appeal to the DPP Program.
  12. Students can apply to count up to 12 UOC from their primary undergraduate degree program towards the Group B elective requirements. Courses must meet the criteria for a Group B course.
  13. Students may count up to 12UOC of DPP courses towards primary degree program General Education requirements only.
  14. DIPP1112 is a prerequisite for DIPP1310.
  15. DIPP1310 is a prerequisite for DIPP1311.
  16. Completion of all Group A and Group C courses is a pre-requisite for the Group D capstone course, DIPP1410.

Fees

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html

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