AIP773 - Governance and Accountability
Unit details
Year: | 2022 unit information |
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Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
Enrolment modes: | Trimester 3: Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 3: Zim Nwokora |
Cohort rule: | Nil |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | AIL773 |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities equivalent to 1 x 1-hour per week |
Content
Accountability is central to ideas and practices of effective governance, but in the face of at times quite fundamental challenges and changes, traditional modes of governance and accountability are being re-evaluated, and in important ways re-invented. This unit explores these developments in a critical and analytic manner. It locates management within its context of political, legal, fiscal and ethical accountability to diverse stakeholders.
A key aim is for students to develop a critical understanding of the complex and at times competing array of accountabilities at play today, at the same time exploring ways of responding effectively, imaginatively and ethically to these demands.
ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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ULO1 | Reflect critically upon traditional approaches to accountability, identifying the key tenets along with relative strengths and limitations here | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
ULO2 | Demonstrate a good grasp of different facets or dimensions of accountability as they are evolving today, and discuss in a critical and analytic way their actual and/or likely efficacy, having regard to the at times very different interests of stakeholders | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO8: Global citizenship |
ULO3 | Approach the interpretation of issues relating to governance and accountability in an open, inquiring, analytic and reflective way | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
ULO4 | Show a high level of independence in and capacity for undertaking research | GLO3: Digital literacy GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management |
ULO5 | Summarise and synthesise materials, drawing together conceptual and empirical materials in an analytic, insightful and reflective way | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication |
ULO6 | Reflect critically upon how different models or theories can enhance not only our understanding of good governance, but also contribute to our own learning and development experience more broadly | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 - Essay | 2000 words or equivalent | 40% | Information not yet available |
Assessment 2 - Essay | 3000 words or equivalent | 60% | Information not yet available |
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
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: AIP773 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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