Overview

This unit provides students with the opportunity to engage in a group project to demonstrate and consolidate their IT skills, knowledge and professional behaviours. IT is multi-faceted, complex, and applied and as such can easily be ‘humanitarian’. Projects will be focused on the use of IT for positive social impact providing students with an understanding of the nature and principles of social and community enterprise.

Requisites

Prerequisites
ICT20005 IT for Social Impact Project

Rule

100 credit points and interview requirement

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:

  • Demonstrate an ability to work in a project team environment on a project focussed on the use of IT for positive social impact
  • Apply a range of analytical, technical, project management and problem solving skills to a real life organisational setting
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how IT can contribute to social and community enterprise
  • Show evidence of self-reliance and time management skills, and an ability to organise a project in order to gain greater independence as a learner and project team member
  • Demonstrate increased awareness and understanding of ethical and professional behaviours in an organisational context

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class		3.00 15 weeks 45
Specified Activities
Various		1.75 12 weeks 21
Unspecified Activities
Various		7.00 12 weeks 84
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual/Group 100% 1,2,3,4,5 

Content

At the commencement of the project, deliverables need to be identified and agreed upon by project groups and the academic convenor, and clear expectations set in terms of requirements for assessment. In addition to this, students will be able to apply some of the following skills developed in previous units to a social impact project:

  • Communication skills in dealing with clients and colleagues
  • Analysis and requirements gathering and modelling
  • Design
  • Implementation
  • Project planning and management
  • Quality assurance
  • Test planning and execution
  • Working to standards
  • Technical documentation
  • Document version control

Study resources

Reading materials

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