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Unit of Study CRTV1002 - Create: Innovate: Change (2024)

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Unit description

Introduces students to six important skills needed for contemporary society: innovative problem solving; creativity; analytic thinking; collaboration; effective communication and ethics (action and accountability). By utilising curiosity and engagement, this unit introduces students to the concepts and practices of creative and innovative thinking through collaboration and problem solving. This unit will unpack the skills and strategies needed, through collaboration and co-design with other students, to solve real-world problems in innovative and creative ways. These methods and fluencies include a range of conceptual approaches, as well as communication strategies, to explore and reconsider the context in which we learn, work and create change.  

Unit content

These topics will be covered:

  • Collaborative approaches to strategic thinking and innovative problem solving.
  • Introduction to Design Thinking.
  • Multidisciplinary approach to change strategies.
  • Develop and implement strategies to enhance personal creativity and innovation. 
  • Strategies for critical appraisal and self assessment. 
  • Communication, planning and evaluation.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Term2
Term2
Lismore
Term2
Term2
Online
Term2,4
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Learning outcomes

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:

demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of creative, lateral and innovative thinking

apply collaborative methods and approaches to project-based problems

develop, test and evaluate original proposals in response to project-based problems

create a communication strategy for working across a range of topics

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • Students will require a computer or device with WebCam access and a Microphone. Students will need to have access to the internet to engage with online unit activities. Students can also access computers for study and internet access on campus.

  • Students will require access to technology (e.g. computer/device and internet access) to engage in various online unit activities. This includes the use of the Blackboard Learning site and other online collaborative technology and applications.

     

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • Students will require a computer or device with WebCam access and a Microphone. Students will need to have access to the internet to engage with online unit activities. Students can also access computers for study and internet access on campus.

  • Students will require access to technology (e.g. computer/device and internet access) to engage in various online unit activities. This includes the use of the Blackboard Learning site and other online collaborative technology and applications.

     

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.