AGC209 - Global Challenges and Innovation Strategies

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: David Giles
Prerequisite:

Students must complete one level 1 unit

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 1 hour lecture per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week 

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

1 x 1 hour lecture per week (recordings provided), 1 x 1 hour online seminar per week     

Content

What can be done to address global challenges? How can we imagine strategies for change or innovation in the face of wicked problems that are planetary in their dimensions? As an arts and humanities student, you will apply your skills to analyse some of these challenges at the global scale—starting with the large, complex systems that create them. Explore various approaches to changing these systems. Consider how diverse stakeholders are already working within them in different ways to address problems from their own perspectives. In this unit you will learn from researchers, community members, industry, and other stakeholders working on these challenges. You will practice critical analysis and systems thinking. And you will imagine a collaborative action plan for changing the world. At the end of this unit students will have a deeper understanding of global systems, crisis, and of the role that Bachelor of Arts students and graduates can play in addressing the complex, multi-stakeholder challenges of today.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Critically evaluate scenarios relating to global challenges and explain the effects of systemic dynamics and human actions.

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO8: Global citizenship
ULO2

Identify key actions and interventions required to address complex global challenges and related issues

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO8: Global Citizenship
ULO3

Work collaboratively to synthesise multi-stakeholder scenarios and communicate respective issues and actions

GLO2: Communication

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO7: Teamwork

ULO4

Critically reflect on the role of discipline-specific knowledge and forms of communication in evaluating and identifying solutions to global challenges.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1: White paper: Multi-stakeholder Scenario Building 1800 words
or equivalent
45% Week 5
Assessment 2 (Individual and Group): White paper: Recommendations and Innovation Strategies  2200 words
or equivalent
55% 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.