MGMT11167 - Foundations of Social Innovation

Showing: 2026 HE Term 1
General Information

Unit Synopsis

Social innovation is the development and implementation of innovative, transformative, and sustainable solutions to social problems. The challenges facing our world such as poverty, disease, and climate change are more complex than ever before. Sustainable, effective solutions require interdisciplinary thinking and cross-sector collaboration. This unit will develop your understanding of social empathy and provide you with foundational skills to diagnose structural inequalities that contribute to social problems. You will apply action learning and case study analysis to examine social, environmental and economic sustainability challenges. Finally you will examine some of the solutions that have already been implemented as organisations, communities and individuals consider ways to benefit society and improve lives.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the 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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026


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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 30%
2. Presentation and Written Assessment 30%
3. Portfolio 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2020 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 46.88% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 24.43% response rate.

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.

Source: Student survey
Feedback:
 Presence of a free textbook is greatly appreciated by students.

Recommendation:
 Maintain practice of providing free core text, and continue to update text as required.

Action Taken:
 The free textbook was provided again this term. Feedback from students is that it is interesting, insightful and innovative.
Source: Student survey
Feedback:
 Feedback on first assignment was too slow, with students wishing to gain benefit of that feedback in preparing assignment 2.

Recommendation:
 Improve speed of feedback on Assignment 1, or alter timing of Assignment 2.

Action Taken:
 Unfortunately, this occurred again this term due to the change in unit coordinator.
Source: Have Your Say, Moodle forums, and email correspondence
Feedback:
 Students indicated that the change in unit coordinator was disruptive and resulted in differing levels of satisfaction with unit coordination

Recommendation:
 Avoid changing unit coordinator once the term has commenced

Action Taken:
 In Progress
Source: Have Your Say, Moodle forums, and email correspondence
Feedback:
 Students indicated that PowerPoint slides may not be the best avenue of communicating assessment requirements and tasks

Recommendation:
 Ensure that there are a number of ways to communicate assessment requirements

Action Taken:
 In Progress
Source: Have Your Say, Moodle forums, and email correspondence
Feedback:
 Students indicated that feedback was late and did not provide enough guidance on where they could improve

Recommendation:
 Provide adequate and timely feedback that helps students to improve

Action Taken:
 In Progress
Source: Have Your Say, Moodle forums, and email correspondence
Feedback:
 Students indicated that emails, Moodle forum posts and phone messages were not responded to in a timely fashion

Recommendation:
 Ensure communication channels are open, monitored and provide timely responses to students

Action Taken:
 In Progress
Unit Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Analyse and describe the contexts for social innovation and identify the changing global environments that drive social change
  2. Identify and analyse the systems, processes and resources required to diagnose structural inequalities and social disparities
  3. Apply action learning principals to examine and critique social, economic and environmental sustainability challenges
  4. Investigate the range of social innovation business models and emerging capitalisation strategies implemented to solve contemporary social challenges.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Written Assessment • • •
2 - Presentation and Written Assessment • • •
3 - Portfolio • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Communication • • •
2 - Problem Solving • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • •
5 - Team Work •
6 - Information Technology Competence • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • • •
8 - Ethical practice • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10
1 - Written Assessment • • • • • • • •
2 - Presentation and Written Assessment • • • • • • • •
3 - Portfolio • • • • • • • •