FIT5122 Professional practice
Faculty of Information Technology
FIT5122 Professional practice is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Information Technology, offered in 2025 in Semester 1 and Semester 2 at Clayton and Malaysia. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 1, Semester 2
- Clayton, Malaysia
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before FIT5122
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
After FIT5122
No unit lists FIT5122 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Corequisite:
Full-time students must enrol in FIT5122 in conjunction with FIT5120 in their final semester. Part-time students must complete FIT5122 prior to enrolling in FIT5120, in their final semester.
Equivalent units
The same content under another code. Only one of them counts.
Overview
The Professional Practice unit enables you to build and improve on the professional skills needed to succeed as an IT Professional. You will explore a range of theoretical and practical skills including complex communication, conflict resolution, team work, and cross cultural skills as well as skills to navigate ethical challenges related to technology. It looks at the role and importance of professional associations. Through a combination of enquiry based self-research, facilitated discussion and practical assignments, you will gain an understanding of the underlying theories and strategies to help them more effectively apply these skills to situations faced in the workplace. As part of this journey, you will have the opportunity to reflect on and improve your existing professional skills by exploring how they do things, reflecting on whether best practices are being applied and evaluating how you could continue to improve. You will create a portfolio to facilitate and record these reflections for your future career.
Study in FIT5122 supports study in FIT5120, therefore students enrolled in FIT5120 should enrol in FIT5122 in conjunction with FIT5120 where possible.
Students enrolled in the research stream should take FIT5122 with their research units.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | On campus |
| First semester | Malaysia | Evening |
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
| Second semester | Malaysia | Evening |
Assessment
- Assignment 1 Unit portfolio and reflection (individual)PortfolioThreshold hurdle30%
- Assignment 2 Team-based hands-on activitiesExercise40%
- Assignment 3 Resolution of a complex professional problem IssueProject30%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Research, critically evaluate and apply appropriate strategies and innovative methods for effective and efficient communications across all stakeholders, evaluating their appropriateness for intercultural communications.
- 2
Assess and apply various teamwork and conflict resolution strategies and justify how these skills could be applied in the context of an effective cross-cultural team.
- 3
Justify why an understanding of personal responsibility and professional ethics is important for IT professionals using relevant ethical and legal frameworks (e.g., the ACS Code of Ethics) so that consequences associated with IT related decisions and possible impacts on organisations and society can be identified.
- 4
Evaluate and communicate both personal and team progress and learning in order to engage in meaningful reflective practice
- 5
Create possible solutions and apply strategies, including quality and security measures, to meet the obligations and challenges of being an Information Technology Professional, who amongst other things, is responsible for maintaining the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of digital assets.
- 6
Compare and contrast IT professional roles, assessing the necessity and rationale for constant review and change;
- 7
Apply appropriate information gathering and problem-solving skills as well as demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate information and its sources
Workload and teaching
- Applied sessions12 hours
- Applied sessions24 hours
- Workshops12 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachRole play
- Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
- Teaching approachEnquiry-based learning
- Teaching approachResearch activities
Teaching activities include team meeting time per week. Additional applied class for team collaboration 12 hr (no room allocated)
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled online and face to face learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated reading and preparation for scheduled teaching activities.
Learning resources
Required resources
You must use the online facilities available through the unit Moodle website. Information regarding references, schedules, assessment tasks and so on will be available there.
You will also be expected to access and use the discussion forums as well as Library resources to support their assignment and tutorial work.
You are required to word process your assignments for submission. Handwritten assignments will not be accepted.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Peter Brown
- Ms Gail Bourne
- Unit Coordinators
- Nadiah Mohamad Sofian
- Mrs Pooneh Zarbafian
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for FIT5122?
None, but you must take FIT5127 or FIT5120 before or alongside it.
When is FIT5122 offered?
In 2025, FIT5122 runs in Semester 1 and Semester 2 at Clayton and Malaysia.
How much work is FIT5122?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does FIT5122 have an exam?
No. FIT5122 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.