AGC309 - The Arts of Changing the World: Global Challenges and Collaborative Action
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Not offered in 2025 From 2026 |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Luke Heemsbergen |
| Prerequisite: | Students must have completed AGC209 or have unit chair approval |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week 1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided) 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
Put the knowledge and skills you have built as an arts and humanities student into action and work collaboratively with colleagues, community members, industry representatives, or other stakeholders to tackle real world global challenges. Learn from people working on global problems in real-world situations and contexts. Analyse a range of viable strategies for community and industry collaboration to create potential solutions with local and global impact. Pitch and plan a change project that will make your mark on the world.
Learning outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Work collaboratively, across disciplines, to respond to an identified real world global challenge | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO7: Teamwork GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO2 | Draw upon disciplinary knowledge and skills to research issues impacted by global challenges and critically analyse strategies for collaborative action to address them | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO3 | Develop a range of creative local and global solutions to real-world global challenges that reflect collaborative action with distinct stakeholders | GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO4 | Pitch and defend your analysis of a problem, and collaborative solutions or strategies generated through that analysis | GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital Literacy |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: (Individual and Group) Project start up | 1000 words | 30% | Week 3 |
| Assessment 2: (Group) Project document. Issue and critically analyse strategies. Propose viable solutions | 2000 words | 40% | Week 8 |
| Assessment 3: Project Pitch | 1000 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.