PSYC20040 - Wellbeing Initiatives: Local and Global Scales

General Information

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.

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

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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 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

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Previous Feedback

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).
Feedback
Students found the unit materials useful and engaging, particularly the examples of transformative initiatives.
Recommendation
Maintain the engaging unit content, including the examples of real-world transformative initiatives, with regular updating of unit content as needed.
Action Taken
The Unit Coordinator reviewed and revised existing unit material and included additional material to support student learning.
Source: Student Moodle feedback.
Feedback
Students appreciated the ability to choose groups and issues to focus on in their assessment pieces.
Recommendation
Maintain student choice of topics for assessment pieces.
Action Taken
Unit Coordinator maintained the focus on student choice in topics.
Source: Student Moodle feedback.
Feedback
Some students struggled to identify systemic causes of a social/environmental issue for the first assessment piece.
Recommendation
Include more discussion of systemic causes in unit material and workshops.
Action Taken
Unit Coordinator included two new videos, a new reading and an additional discussion item in the workshop on systemic causes.
Source: 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.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: 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.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: 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.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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