AGC209 - Global Challenges and Innovation Strategies
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Students must complete one level 1 unit |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 1 hour lecture per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 1 hour lecture per week (recordings provided), 1 x 1 hour online seminar per week |
Content
What can be done about global challenges? How can we develop agency in the face of these huge problems? Use your skills as an arts and humanities student to analyse some of the world's most difficult global challenges. Consider how people are already addressing large and complex global problems. Explore various approaches to changing the future. In this unit you will learn from people working on these global challenges and will have the opportunity to imagine your own action plan for changing the world. At the end of this unit students will have a deeper understanding of global problems, and of the role that Bachelor of Arts students and graduates can play in addressing complex, multi-stakeholder, global challenges of today.