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COLB13-200: Global Challenges 2

Description

Global Challenges 2 provides students with an opportunity to further explore the complexities and potential solutions identified within Global Challenges 1. This innovative subject is the second stage in a series of two subjects that encompasses a group-based project, allowing students to integrate their theoretical understanding and practical experience to design and develop the methodology to solve their wicked problem.  Wicked problems are highly complex and difficult to define, with the solution to such problems often evolving into unintended consequences that require resolution of a new problem. Students will work in an experiential and collaborative learning environment as they further extend upon their initial project group-based project. If a problem is wicked, investigating the complexities within a dynamic social context potentially encourages activities such as exploration and integration of multiple perspectives. Global Challenges 2 offers a unique transdisciplinary-led approach where Educators from various faculties integrate offering discipline-specific approaches.

Subject details

Type: Undergraduate Subject
Code: COLB13-200
EFTSL: 0.250
Semesters offered:
  • September 2023 [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 2022: $7,900.00
  • Commencing in 2023: $8,100.00
  • Commencing in 2022: $10,520.00
  • Commencing in 2023: $10,800.00

Learning outcomes

  1. Implement a range of strategies and processes to define and propose solutions for complex problems and scenarios.
  2. Work collaboratively with others from a range of disciplines to achieve a common goal.
  3. Research and evaluate relevant theories and concepts pertaining to sustainable futures as the basis of defining a wicked problem.
  4. Communicate effectively using both written and oral formats within a diverse range of contexts.
  5. Design and develop an appropriate methodology to solve a complex problem.

Enrolment requirements

Requisites:

Pre-requisites:

Co-requisites:

There are no co-requisites

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

This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure.

Subject dates

  • Standard Offering
    Enrolment opens: 16/07/2023
    Semester start: 11/09/2023
    Subject start: 11/09/2023
    Cancellation 1: 25/09/2023
    Cancellation 2: 02/10/2023
    Last enrolment: 24/09/2023
    Withdraw - Financial: 07/10/2023
    Withdraw - Academic: 28/10/2023
    Teaching census: 06/10/2023
Standard Offering
Enrolment opens: 16/07/2023
Semester start: 11/09/2023
Subject start: 11/09/2023
Cancellation 1: 25/09/2023
Cancellation 2: 02/10/2023
Last enrolment: 24/09/2023
Withdraw - Financial: 07/10/2023
Withdraw - Academic: 28/10/2023
Teaching census: 06/10/2023