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Unit of Study COM30001 - Community Engagement Project (2017)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    192 Credit Points in any SCU units (any 16 SCU units)

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Provides students with support to undertake real-world collaborative active learning opportunities located in community organisations or settings and meets community needs through the application of disciplinary knowledge and practice. Develops skills that contribute to students' ability to act as ethical and socially responsible citizens through ongoing critical self-reflection, collaboration, active listening and dialogue.

Unit content

Students have the opportunity to participate in a community partnership project available through Live Ideas in collaboration with other enrolled students, the Unit Assessor, a member of a community organisation and practitioners from SCU Engagement. The nature and scope of the community partnership project will have been determined through a collaborative process and articulated through a completed collaborative agreement.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online Session 3 N/A

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 demonstrate understanding of critical and active citizenship, including ethical and social responsibility, in their disciplinary context
2 demonstrate understanding of the concepts of teamwork, mutuality, reciprocity and respect in the context of a community partnership
3 show capacity for reflection on their experience demonstrated through reflective writing
4 demonstrate understanding of the range of participatory methods appropriate for collaborative partnership projects

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate understanding of critical and active citizenship, including ethical and social responsibility, in their disciplinary context
    • GA3:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  2. demonstrate understanding of the concepts of teamwork, mutuality, reciprocity and respect in the context of a community partnership
    • GA3:
    • GA6:
  3. show capacity for reflection on their experience demonstrated through reflective writing
    • GA3:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  4. demonstrate understanding of the range of participatory methods appropriate for collaborative partnership projects
    • GA1:
    • GA5:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.