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2025 unit information
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1 x 1 hour online lecture per week
1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided)
1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
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.
Around the world, people and communities are confronted with large and complex problems of global scale or origin. How can we respond to challenges like climate change, the erosion of democracy, increasing inequality, or contested identities? This unit introduces you to the knowledge and skills needed to make a difference in an increasingly complex world—starting with yourself and your local context. Take the future into your own hands and build your agency in addressing some of the world’s most pressing problems. Investigate several of the most difficult challenges that confront us today. Discover approaches to addressing global challenges that bring together big ideas with lived experiences in community contexts. By the end of this unit, students will understand some of the world's biggest problems, and be better positioned to respond to these problems in their everyday lives, by identifying and proposing ways to activate their local communities.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Examine different dimensions of global challenges, and how these impact society and local communities.
GLO8: Global citizenship
Research and explain how personal agency intersects with local communities to respond to global challenges in ethical ways.
GLO8: Global Citizenship
Make use of digital technologies to explain how the impact of global challenges could be mitigated at a local level.
GLO3: Digital Literacy
GLO5: Problem Solving
Identify how knowledge and skills from different disciplines can inform the analysis of global challenges
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.
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.