EEO731 - Individuals and Social Contexts: the Humanities

Unit details

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Enrolment modes:(G)
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Cohort rule:

(For students enrolled in course E665 only)

Unit chair:L Preston
Contact hours: This unit is taught in intensive mode with a minimum of 30 contact hours

Content

  • Introduction to humanities both locally and globally (areas, resources, contexts)
  • Pedagogical approaches and forms of assessment
  • Classroom interactions to help develop economics knowledge, reasoning and interpretation
  • Geographical knowledge and understanding
  • Teaching and learning activities for developing geospatial knowledge and skills
  • Active learning: Historical reasoning and interpretation
  • Indigenous perspectives and the humanities
  • Sustainability and the humanities
  • Exploring humanities outside the classroom

Assessment

Assignment 1: Resource Reflection. The aim of this task is to select, explore, describe, and critique an existing resource which has potential for use in humanities. Students will design a range of learning activities and assessment task/s for the selected resource to meet selected humanities curriculum objectives. (Students work individually or in self-selected groups). (3000 words equivalent – 50%)

 

Assignment 2: Interdisciplinary Unit of Work. Students use the inquiry approach to develop an integrated unit of learning which foregrounds humanities’ learning. (3000 words equivalent – 50%)

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*Student Contribution Rate**Fee rate - Domestic Students Fee rate - International students
$733$587$1944$2490

* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.