Unit Synopsis
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
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 8 |
| 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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. Online resource/s | 20% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 30% |
| 3. Practical Assessment | 50% |
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%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 38.10% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 35% 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 feedback (evaluations).
Students found the unit materials useful and engaging, particularly the examples of transformative initiatives.
Maintain the engaging unit content, including the examples of real-world transformative initiatives, with regular updating of unit content as needed.
The Unit Coordinator reviewed and revised existing unit material and included additional material to support student learning.
Source: Student Moodle feedback.
Students appreciated the ability to choose groups and issues to focus on in their assessment pieces.
Maintain student choice of topics for assessment pieces.
Unit Coordinator maintained the focus on student choice in topics.
Source: Student Moodle feedback.
Some students struggled to identify systemic causes of a social/environmental issue for the first assessment piece.
Include more discussion of systemic causes in unit material and workshops.
Unit Coordinator included two new videos, a new reading and an additional discussion item in the workshop on systemic causes.
Source: Unit Coordinator observation
Some students struggled with following the assessment task instructions provided in written format.
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.
In Progress
Source: Student feedback (evaluations)
Students appreciated the videoed lecture content.
The Unit Coordinator to continue to review and enhance video offerings in the unit.
In Progress
Source: Student feedback (evaluations)
Some students had difficulty identifying community-led initiatives.
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.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Evaluate local, national and international wellbeing and resilience programs.
- Apply evidence-based research, and generic principles of wellbeing and resilience programs, to the design of a small-scale wellbeing project.
- Demonstrate communication skills which convey a compelling and persuasive argument for an innovative small-scale wellbeing program.
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| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • |
| 3 - Practical Assessment | • | • | |
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| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | ||
| 4 - Research | • | • | |
| 5 - Self-management | • | ||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | ||
| 7 - Leadership | • | ||
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