Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Global Challenges
Credit Points: 12.00
Course Coordinator: Associate Professor Julian Lee
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 3440
Course Coordinator Email: julian.lee@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Building 37. Floor 5. Room 30
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses
Successful completion of 006378 - Globalisation and our Global Futures and 006411 - Global Careers.
Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.
For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.
Course Description
In this capstone course, you will engage with RMIT industry partners in a collaborative and transdisciplinary problem-solving environment to explore and constructively respond to global challenges using collaboration and design-thinking methodologies. This course will prompt you to draw on your studies thus far so that you can apply your learning to constructively respond to a challenge with global dimensions. You will expand on your skillset through facilitated collaboration and by using structured and adaptive methods that facilitate holistic problem analysis, creative ideation, ethical stakeholder engagement, and solution proposition.
You will analyse and articulate the role of difference and diversity, including with respect to disciplinary backgrounds. Building on your studies to date, you will extend your emerging capabilities by applying research and critical skills, engaging with researchers, and developing project management skills.
This is a designated WIL course in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to your experience.
Where applicable, WIL agreements, schedules and relevant insurance documentation must be fully approved, and the WIL Preparation module for students and/or WIL Ready Cred must be successfully completed before the WIL activity commences.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
In this course you will develop the following BP332P25 Bachelor of International Studies program learning outcomes:
PLO1. Contribute to global justice and equity with empathy, critical thinking and resilience.
PLO2. Navigate international complexity using disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge, practice and research.
PLO3. Problem solve collaboratively and adaptively using linguistic, intercultural and digital skills.
PLO4. Address challenges to international security, society and development in ways that are holistic, ethical and respectful of diverse knowledge systems.
PLO5. Engage with industry and community networks to advance local and global goals and equity.
PLO6. Reflect on and effectively express your global, linguistic and cross-cultural capabilities for professional and career progress.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
1. Collaborate constructively with industry to address global challenges or support projects
2. Apply insights from high quality research to projects and industry challenges
3. Work professionally across disciplinary areas and appreciate the value of diversity and global perspectives in responding to complex challenges
Overview of Learning Activities
Learning in this course occurs through a range of industry-linked and academic activities which will include a studio format through which the industry-posed challenge is progressively worked through and facilitated in face-to-face workshops and guided collaborations. Select industry and/or community organisations are stakeholders in this course and will appear in authentic roles as interlocutors with participants in the course.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT student website.
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Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes.
Assessment Task 1: Capstone Preparation Portfolio, 30%, CLO1, CLO2 and CLO3
Assessment Task 2: Live presentation, 40%, CLO1, CLO2 and CLO3
Assessment Task 3: Capstone Reflective Portfolio, 30%, CLO1, CLO2 and CLO
Feedback will be provided on all assessment tasks.
If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability, it may be possible to negotiate variations to aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the Program Coordinator or Equitable Learning Services for more information.
This course's assessment complies with RMIT’s assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures, and instructions.