AGC309 - Global Challenges and Collaborative Action

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: To be advised
Prerequisite:

Students must have completed AGC209 or have unit chair approval

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

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.

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