| Effective Term: | 2024/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Community Impact Project 1 |
| Unit ID: | COOPC2001 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (At least 120 credit points from ANY subject-area at any level) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 080303 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit offers the opportunity for students to collaborate with a community partner in a real-life project. The host organisation identifies an issue or challenge it is facing and student participants research and propose creative and sustainable solutions. You will work in a group of students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, collaborating with a community partner and an academic lead, employing design thinking methodologies. These methodologies are iterative problem-solving processes of discovery, ideation, and experimentation that employ design-based techniques to gain insight and yield innovative solutions for virtually any type of organisational or business challenge. The conclusion of the project sees you showcase their fully developed concepts that have the potential to be carried forward into an implementation phase. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
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| Supplementary Assessment:No |
| Supplementary assessment is not available to students who gain a fail in this Unit. |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | |  | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Identify how diverse perspectives within a multi-disciplinary team determine innovation |
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| K2. | Explore appropriate creative and innovation strategies, including research and design thinking approaches that provide solutions to complex business problems |
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| K3. | Describe a sequenced understanding of the design and planning of project implementation in a collaborative creative process |
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| K4. | Outline the issues and potential problems that may occur in collaborative practice |
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| K5. | Convey the role and significance of critical evaluation and active reflection in the creative process |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Investigate and apply innovative problem-solving techniques such as design thinking methods. |
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| S2. | Develop the ability to think logically, strategically and look ‘beyond the obvious’ and develop a multifunctional and multidisciplinary perspective. |
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| S3. | Contribute reflective, creative and critical thinking to a collective plan |
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| S4. | Communicate and present project concepts in an articulate and engaging manner |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Showcase design thinking, creativity, innovation and enterprise skills and communicate design ideas of increasing sophistication. |
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| A2. | Demonstrate an ability to analyse, synthesize and evaluate an opportunity or a challenge and to develop appropriate recommendations in the form of a presentation and project report. |
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| A3. | Work collaboratively with peers, academics, and industry mentors to make a substantial contribution to the planning and management of the project |
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| A4. | Integrate an ethical and socially engaged framework when working with the broader community |
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| Unit Content: |
Community impact projects are collaborative, co-operative and team based. They are designed to create change within a community by selecting specific causes and contributing to them in measurable ways. This experience is designed to be a mutually beneficial experience. The host organization gets new perspectives and business strategies while the students gain a better understanding of community needs, a deeper appreciation for community involvement and career experience to enhance employability. As you will be working on real life projects you will need to be flexible and adaptive in how you communicate the outcomes of your work. To that end this unit is designed to reflect changeable circumstances and is flexible as to how the outcomes are reached. It is designed as a reflexive, responsive and agile engagement with community partners and projects. You are also encouraged to think beyond your chosen discipline and experiment with new ideas devised from your multidisciplinary groups. The unit is delivered in design sprints which employ convergent and divergent thinking within a design thinking process. Sprint examples include: Project Initiation Project Management Understanding your Audience Pitching your idea Final Presentations |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K3, K4, S2, S3, S4, A2, A3 | Reflective and Critical Journal Entries – Linking to Activities undertaken. | Individual critical reflection pieces | 20-30% | | 2. | K1, K3, K4, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4 | Midpoint Proposal and Presentation | Group Presentation | 30-50% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2 A3, A4 | Final Presentation and Written Report | Group Presentation and Written Report | 30-50% |
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