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Last updated: 4 June 2021
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Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
Online independent and collaborative learning activities equivalent to 1 x 1-hour per week
Accountability is central to ideas and practices of effective governance, but in the face of at times quite fundamental challenges and changes, traditional modes of governance and accountability are being re-evaluated, and in important ways re-invented. This unit explores these developments in a critical and analytic manner. It locates management within its context of political, legal, fiscal and ethical accountability to diverse stakeholders.
A key aim is for students to develop a critical understanding of the complex and at times competing array of accountabilities at play today, at the same time exploring ways of responding effectively, imaginatively and ethically to these demands.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
ULO2
Demonstrate a good grasp of different facets or dimensions of accountability as they are evolving today, and discuss in a critical and analytic way their actual and/or likely efficacy, having regard to the at times very different interests of stakeholders
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship
ULO3
Approach the interpretation of issues relating to governance and accountability in an open, inquiring, analytic and reflective way
ULO4
Show a high level of independence in and capacity for undertaking research
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO6: Self-management
ULO5
Summarise and synthesise materials, drawing together conceptual and empirical materials in an analytic, insightful and reflective way
GLO2: Communication
ULO6
Reflect critically upon how different models or theories can enhance not only our understanding of good governance, but also contribute to our own learning and development experience more broadly
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
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.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: AIP773 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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