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PSYC20040 Wellbeing Initiatives: Local and Global Scales
Wellbeing Initiatives: Local and Global Scales
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General Information

Overview

In this unit, you will examine and critique wellbeing and resilience initiatives in community, national and global settings. Initiatives will include not-for-profit organisations, social innovation enterprises, local and state government projects, intentional communities and cooperatives, and global wellbeing and resilience movements. You will research and evaluate successful and unsuccessful city/urban, and rural-based initiatives, and apply that knowledge to design a wellbeing initiative for a local application.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate
Unit Level: Level 8
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

There are no requisites for this unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 2 - 2026

Online

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

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Class and Assessment Overview

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This information will be available on Monday 18 May 2026
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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from Unit Coordinator observation

Feedback

Some students struggled with following the assessment task instructions provided in written format.

Recommendation

The Unit Coordinator will create a series of short videos with tips and instructions for each assessment, and distribute these to students. This will be supplemented by Academic Learning Centre workshops for the assessments.

Feedback from Student feedback (evaluations)

Feedback

Students appreciated the videoed lecture content.

Recommendation

The Unit Coordinator to continue to review and enhance video offerings in the unit.

Feedback from Student feedback (evaluations)

Feedback

Some students had difficulty identifying community-led initiatives.

Recommendation

The Unit Coordinator will continue to highlight examples of community-led initiatives in the unit content, and include opportunities for students to check their choice of initiatives with teaching staff that they could talk about in Assessment 1.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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This information will be available on Monday 18 May 2026
Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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This information will be available on Monday 22 June 2026
Academic Integrity Statement

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