Career Options and Professional Identity
UndergraduateLTU-SHE20012025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 23 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025,
- 3 Nov 2025
- Price from
- $2,124
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Career Options and Professional Identity
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Explain how your discipline can be used in a variety of occupations for solving real world problems, now and into the future.
- Explain the importance of ethical conduct when working as a professional in many discipline areas.
- Evaluate the career options for a range of graduates in your discipline and communicate the insights in team presentations and personal career plans.
- Document and evaluate personal skills, knowledge and professional identity in terms of employability in professions relating to your discipline.
- Future of work
- Strengths and weaknesses
- Graduate pathways
- Reflective writing for career planning
- STEM skills – what do employers of science graduates want
- Ethics in STEM
- Problem solving in the workplace
- Professional networks – current and future
- Interview skills
In this subject, students will explore the range of career options for graduates working in science, technology, engineering & maths (STEM) and health-related professions, and learn about the future of the relevant disciplinary workforce both locally and globally. Through a series of workshop activities and assessment tasks, students will explore the importance of ethical conduct when working as a professional in STEM and health fields and will create a portfolio where they reflect on their professional identity, knowledge base and skillset for a range of job types.
- Group presentation (500-words equivalent, per student) (15%)
- Individual assignment (750 words equivalent) (20%)
- Reflective portfolio (2750 words equivalent) Part A: 10% - Early assessment task (500 word equivalent) Part B: 15% (750 word equivalent) Part C: 30% (1500 word equivalent) (55%)
- Individual oral presentation (250 work equivalent) (10%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-HSC-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Health Sciences
Elective
- LAT-AHS-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in one of the following courses: HBHSO, AZ001O and have completed 60 credit points
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed BIO3CEP (Career Options and Professional Identity in Biology), SCI2COP (Big Ideas in Science: Career Options and Professional Identity) or LTU2PYC (Planning Your Career) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DEG
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
UndergraduateLAT-AHS-DEG