Overview

This unit offers students an opportunity to engage with peers in the completion of a project targeting an issue of societal of importance to the local community in which students will be located whilst serving the off-shore component. Students can expect to apply their academic learning in this real-world project and to critically explore the relevance of this learning within the socio-cultural environment in which they are immersed. The unit focuses on the development of embedded disciplinary understanding and will result in the advancement of a suite of skills including: teamwork, leadership, advanced communication, problem solving and global social responsibility.

Requisites

Prerequisites
MFP20001 International Sustainability Project

Rule
100 credit points and approval from unit convenor

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Winter
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
17-June-2024
28-July-2024
Last self-enrolment date
17-June-2024
Census date
28-June-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-July-2024
Results released date
13-August-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for own learning and personal effectiveness as a global citizen
  • Work with others to analyse, generate and transmit solutions to unpredictable and sometimes complex problems
  • Manifest advanced communication skills to present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of community engagement in their field of study
  • Evidence cognitive skills to review critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge about active engagement in relation to issues of local and global concerns in their fields
  • Demonstrate intercultural awareness and communication

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Other
2.00 1 week 2
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Fieldwork
6.67 12 weeks 80
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
4.67 12 weeks 56
TOTAL138

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PresentationIndividual 10 - 20% 2,3,5 
PresentationIndividual 10 - 20% 1,2,3,4,5 
Project ProposalGroup 25 - 35% 1,2,3,4 
ReflectionIndividual 25 - 35% 1,2,3,4,5 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

An aggregate mark for the unit of 50% or more.

Content

  • Social impact
  • Community engagement
  • Global citizenship
  • Cross cultural communication
  • Sustainable development goals
  • Country specific risk assessment

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.