AGC309 - Global Challenges and Collaborative Action
Unit details
| Year: | 2023 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Commencing 2024: Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | TBA |
| 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. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 1 hour class per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - online: | 1 x 1 hour class per week (recordings provided), 1 x 1 hour online seminar per week |
Content
Put your knowledge and skills as an arts and humanities student into action and work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to resolve real world global challenges. Learn from people working on global problems in real-world situations and contexts. Analyse a range of viable strategies, and partner with external stakeholder, to collaborate and 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 issue and critically analyse strategies. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO3 | Develop a range of local and global creative solutions to the real-world global challenge. | GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO4 | Pitch and defend the problem analysis and solutions generated | GLO2: Communication GLO4: Digital Literacy |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 – Project start up (individual and group) | 1000 words | 25% | End of week 3 |
| Assessment 2 – Project document. Issue and critically analyse strategies. Propose viable solutions (individual and group) | 2000 words | 50% | End of week 8 |
| Assessment 3 – Project Pitch (group) | 1000 words or equivalent | 25% | End of 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.