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FASS3999: Interdisciplinary Impact

Interdisciplinarity is a key skill in fostering agility in life and work. This unit provides learning experiences that build students' skills, knowledge and understanding of the application of their disciplinary background to interdisciplinary contexts. In this unit, students will work in teams and develop interdisciplinarity skills through problem-based learning projects responding to 'real world problems'.

Code FASS3999
Academic unit Arts and Social Sciences
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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Completion of at least 90 credit points
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. map and demonstrate an understanding of how disciplinary knowledge, skills and understanding contribute to interdisciplinary knowing
  • LO2. demonstrate skills, knowledge and understanding gained in creativity, collaboration, critical reflection and communication in interdisciplinary knowing
  • LO3. demonstrate high level-knowledge of how interdisciplinary understandings can be applied to complex or 'intractable problems' in context
  • LO4. produce a collaborative response using interdisciplinary understandings to a complex real life problem
  • LO5. critically reflect on the challenges and opportunities of working in interdisciplinary ways and confidently apply disciplinary knowledge to real-world problems.