AHA722 - Program Design
Unit details
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | This unit is no longer available in 2024. From 2025: Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Yamini Narayanan |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ADS707, ADS708 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 1-hour seminar per week and 1 x day on campus intensive |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities equivalent to 1 x 1-hour per week |
Content
Students in this until will discover how to approach programme design in humanitarian and development work. The unit is comprised of five modules, comprising ethics, and community led design, needs assessment and evidence basis, principles of program design, case studies, systems thinking, plus a final one-week intensive. The unit begins with a critical exploration of ethical considerations, as well as the central role of community. It unpacks the difference between community engagement and community-led design, as well as ethical principles underpinning programme creation. Next, the unit explores the foundation for programmes by considering needs assessments and evidence bases. It looks at mainstream humanitarian and development approaches, as well as critical perspectives that encourage alternative ways of thinking. The unit then presents on overview of the principles of programme design, before moving on to explore these principles in real case studies. Case studies highlight both good practice, as well as scenarios where programme design could have been improved. The unit considers how programmes do not exist in a vacuum by exploring systems thinking. Finally, the unit concludes with an intensive. In teams, students will need to design a programme for a rapid-onset crisis while considering the long-term impacts of their proposed activities.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | |
| ULO1 | Examine critical debates and key issues surrounding design of development projects, and monitoring and evaluation strategies, to build appropriate professional skills and understanding of how to design and implement appropriate projects | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO2 | Critically analyse the ways in which social power impacts upon the assessment of need in development settings, the subsequent design of projects and programmes, and how effectiveness is appraised | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO3 | Design appropriate needs assessment and monitoring and evaluation strategies responses to identified needs, in relation to case studies of real-life scenarios | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Report | 1000 words or equivalent | 20% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2: Essay | 1500 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 7 |
| Assessment 3: Report | 2500 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via AHA722
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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