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Unit Synopsis
The world continues to change rapidly in ways that affect well-being, social and economic development and the natural environment. In this unit, you will explore the causes, patterns, trends and localised impacts of major global changes, including population growth, migration, urbanisation, globalisation, socio-economic inequality and environmental change. You will investigate linkages between these changes and sustainability and adapt your thinking to new contexts in a changing world.
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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2024
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 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. Online discussion forum | 15% |
| 2. Portfolio | 45% |
| 3. Written Assessment | 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%).
Past Exams
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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: UC self-assessment.
Continue emphasizing the integration of sustainable development in BA education to enhance students’ understanding of its relevance to their majors and careers.
The unit coordinator will continue to update the learning materials and enhance the delivery of the unit by incorporating discipline-specific examples and case studies into assessments, explicitly linking sustainability principles to students’ majors and minors. This will help students better understand how sustainability applies to their fields of study and its practical relevance to future academic and professional pathways.
Learning materials were updated and discipline-specific examples and case studies were incorporated into the delivery and assessment activities. Sustainability principles were explicitly linked to students’ majors and minors to strengthen their understanding of the relevance and practical application of sustainable development to their academic and professional pathways.
Source: Unit Coordinator Evaluation
There is a strong opportunity to refresh learning materials according to interdisciplinary sustainability pedagogy
Use the research findings to refresh and enhance learning materials and learning activities for fostering sustainability learning, providing clearer guidance on applying sustainability concepts to students’ disciplinary areas and real-world issues.
In Progress
Source: Unit Coordinator Evaluation
Stronger connections with the UN Sustainable Development Goals would benefit student knowledge
Strengthen the embedding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in learning activities and assessments to help students explicitly connect their disciplinary learning with sustainability challenges.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Describe the causes and impacts of major global changes
- Collect, analyse, evaluate and present information on major global changes and their impacts
- Discuss the linkages between the global changes and the goals of global sustainability
- Debate issues around adopting a more sustainable approach to human practices.
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| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Online discussion forum | • | |||
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | |
| 5 - Team Work | • | |||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • |
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | • | • | • |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online discussion forum | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | ||||||