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COLB12-200: Global Challenges 1

Description

Global Challenges 1 provides students with an opportunity to effectively identify and address a significant and complex problem that will form the basis of a major project. This innovative subject focuses upon wicked problems and the challenges they pose. Wicked problems are highly complex and difficult to define; clean solutions to wicked problems prove elusive, with proposed solutions generating unintended consequences that require resolution of new problems, which are themselves difficult and often wicked. Global Challenges 1 provides students with an opportunity to investigate such problems while integrating their theoretical understanding and practical experience. Students will work in an experiential and collaborative learning environment as they develop the skills and knowledge to identify and conceptualise a wicked problem. 

Subject details

Type: Undergraduate Subject
Code: COLB12-200
EFTSL: 0.250
Semesters offered:
  • January 2024 [Standard Offering]
Credit: 20
Study areas:
  • Actuarial Science and Data Analytics
  • Architecture
  • Business, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship
  • Communication, Film, and Creative Media
  • Health, Biomedical, and Sport Sciences
  • International Relations, Politics, and Arts
  • Law
  • Medicine
  • Psychology, Criminology, and Social Sciences
  • Construction, Property, and Planning
  • Project Management and Innovation
Subject fees:
  • Commencing in 2023: $8,100.00
  • Commencing in 2024: $8,520.00
  • Commencing in 2025: $8,920.00
  • Commencing in 2023: $10,800.00
  • Commencing in 2024: $11,460.00
  • Commencing in 2025: $11,980.00

Learning outcomes

  1. Effectively communicate ideas and arguments regarding significant wicked problems within diverse settings and to multiple audiences.
  2. Work collaboratively and cooperatively with others to address a specified wicked problem.
  3. Use critical self-reflection and the feedback of others to identify and act on opportunities for learning.
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of theoretical and conceptual constructs and ideas relevant to understanding and addressing wicked problems.
  5. Identify and critically analyse a wicked problem, including the potential roles and responsibilities of relevant stakeholders.

Enrolment requirements

Requisites:

Nil

Assumed knowledge:

Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for students’ lack of prior knowledge.

Restrictions: This subject is not available to
  • Study Abroad Students

Subject dates

  • Standard Offering
    Enrolment opens: 12/11/2023
    Semester start: 15/01/2024
    Subject start: 15/01/2024
    Cancellation 1: 29/01/2024
    Cancellation 2: 05/02/2024
    Last enrolment: 28/01/2024
    Withdraw - Financial: 10/02/2024
    Withdraw - Academic: 02/03/2024
    Teaching census: 09/02/2024
Standard Offering
Enrolment opens: 12/11/2023
Semester start: 15/01/2024
Subject start: 15/01/2024
Cancellation 1: 29/01/2024
Cancellation 2: 05/02/2024
Last enrolment: 28/01/2024
Withdraw - Financial: 10/02/2024
Withdraw - Academic: 02/03/2024
Teaching census: 09/02/2024