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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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</p>
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<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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Unit description
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability
Discipline:
Business
Study level:
Undergraduate
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
080303 - Human Resource Management
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/coopc2001">View unit fees</a>
Requisites
Prerequisite
<p>the student has achieved at least 120 Credit Points prior to enrolment</p>
Corequisite
None
Exclusion
None
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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<p>Identify how diverse perspectives within a multi-disciplinary team determine innovation</p>
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<p>Explore appropriate creative and innovation strategies, including research and design thinking approaches that provide solutions to complex business problems</p>
K3
<p>Describe a sequenced understanding of the design and planning of project implementation in a collaborative creative process</p>
K4
<p>Outline the issues and potential problems that may occur in collaborative practice</p>
K5
<p>Convey the role and significance of critical evaluation and active reflection in the creative process</p>
S1
<p>Investigate and apply innovative problem-solving techniques such as design thinking methods.</p>
S2
<p>Develop the ability to think logically, strategically and look ‘beyond the obvious’ and develop a multifunctional and multidisciplinary perspective.</p>
S3
<p>Contribute reflective, creative and critical thinking to a collective plan</p>
S4
<p>Communicate and present project concepts in an articulate and engaging manner</p>
A1
<p>Showcase design thinking, creativity, innovation and enterprise skills and communicate design ideas of increasing sophistication.</p>
A2
<p>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.</p>
A3
<p>Work collaboratively with peers, academics, and industry mentors to make a substantial contribution to the planning and management of the project</p>
A4
<p>Integrate an ethical and socially engaged framework when working with the broader community</p>
Assessment
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<p>Reflective and Critical Journal Entries – Linking to Activities undertaken.</p>
<p>Individual critical reflection pieces</p>
<p>20-30%</p>
K1, K3, K4, S2, S3, S4, A2, A3
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<p>Midpoint Proposal and Presentation</p>
<p>Group Presentation</p>
<p>30-50%</p>
K1, K3, K4, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4
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<p>Final Presentation and Written Report</p>
<p>Group Presentation and Written Report</p>
<p>30-50%</p>
K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4
Supplementary assessment available:
Yes
Supplementary assessment information:
<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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FedTASK
<p>Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (<strong>T</strong>ransferable <strong>A</strong>ttributes <strong>S</strong>kills and <strong>K</strong>nowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key, transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and co-operative learning opportunities.</p>
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Description of FedTASK outcome
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FedTASK 1: Interpersonal
The ability to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups.
FedTASK 2: Leadership
The ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others.
FedTASK 3: Critical Thinking and Creativity
The ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using imagination to create new ideas.
FedTASK 4: Digital Literacy
The ability to work fluently across a range of tools and applications to achieve a range of skills.
FedTASK 5: Sustainable and Ethical Mindset
The ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions.
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability
Discipline:
Business
Study level:
Undergraduate
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
080303 - Human Resource Management
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/coopc2001">View unit fees</a>
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