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WILS2002: Science WIL Extended Experience
2025 unit information
This unit offers you an exciting opportunity to demonstrate and build your knowledge and science skills by working with an industry partner. During this extended placement you may be involved in a variety of different industry and client-based projects, which will offer you the opportunity to apply science skills and theories from your course. This will provide you with firsthand experience of how these skills and theories can support the solving of scientific problems in a practical and commercial context, identifying opportunities, developing strategies and designing processes, procedures and management practices in order to help an organisation realise its competitive potential. Assessment in the unit is structured around a reflective journal kept during the placement with a summary submitted at the end, alongside a final presentation which allows you to demonstrate your ability to apply and synthesise concepts in a professional setting.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Science
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Science Faculty |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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A WAM of 65 or greater and a minimum of 96 credit points |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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WILS2001 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. apply scientific concepts and knowledge, possibly from a range of disciplines, to contribute to projects and/or problems for the industry partner company
- LO2. find and analyse information and/or data necessary for a task and judge its reliability and significance
- LO3. understand and apply the principles of scientific measurement or analysis necessary to gather data for a task
- LO4. organise and communicate scientific and technical information appropriately through day-to-day interactions and oral and written reporting
- LO5. engage in team and group work in pursuing the objectives of an industry partner/company; develop and apply skills in collaboration, team work and communication
- LO6. demonstrate a sense of responsibility, independence, cultural competence and ethical behaviour as a practising scientist in a work environment.
Unit availability
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 1 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Semester 2 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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