Overview

This unit provides an immersive learning experience in an international or in-country industry and community context, enabling postgraduate students to contextualise their disciplinary knowledge, develop a deeper understanding of their professional purpose and global citizenship. Learning activities will lead the students to critically inquire and collaborate to provide an interdisciplinary response to relevant and complex real-world challenges, focusing on different topics for each delivery (e.g. Indigenous Inquiry, Global Leaders) The practice-based and collaborative learning approach in authentic contexts will enable students to apply their disciplinary knowledge to real world challenges; develop professional capabilities, cultural safety and responsiveness, ethical leadership and global citizenship.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Contexualise discipline specific knowledge and the insights generated during the study tour to respond to complex real- world challenges.
  • Use a range of culturally safe and responsive strategies to communicate, collaborate and relate with various audiences.
  • Deliberate on relevant discipline, Indigenous, and sustainable frameworks for ethical professional practice and citizenship.
  • Draw from proposed reflective model to clarify and pursue one’s professional purpose.

Teaching methods

All applicable locations

Activity Type Activity Total Hours Number of Weeks Venue Type and Activity Detail
Study Tour Study Tour 126 2 weeks Students will engage in a wide range of study tour activities, like: industry and community site visits, immersive cultural experiences, guest lectures, conference, panels with local experts, workshops, and collaborations.
Study Tour Non-Scheduled Learning 4 2 weeks The unit activity comprises two pre-departure sessions to prepare students for the learning experience (establishing relationships and peer to peer connections, learning expectations, learning co-design, preparation for assessment).
Unspecified Activities Independent Learning 20 6 weeks Independent study and study tour preparation.

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULOs
Portfolio Individual  25-35% 1,2,4
Portfolio Individual  25-35% 1,2,3
Portfolio Individual  35-45% 1,2,4

Content

  • Selected topic of global relevance: eg. Global Sustainable Development, Indigenous knowledges and professional practice, Global leadership and innovation, new technologies.
  • Critical inquiry into socio-economic, political and cultural understanding of the study tour location in a global context
  • Interdisciplinary response to selected complex real-world, industry or community challenges
  • Ethical professional practice and global citizenship
  • Cultural safety and responsiveness
  • Leadership and innovation

 

  • GA 1- Communication 1 - Verbal Communication
  • GA 2- Communication 2 - Communicating using different media
  • GA 3- Teamwork 1 - Collaboration and negotiation
  • GA 4- Teamwork 2 - Teamwork roles and processes
  • GA 5- Digital Literacies 1 - Information literacy
  • GA 6- Digital Literacies 2 - Technical literacy

Study resources

Reading materials

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