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FASS3999: Interdisciplinary Impact
2024 unit information
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'.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Code | FASS3999 |
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| Academic unit | Arts and Social Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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Completion of at least 90 credit points |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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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.
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Intensive December 2024
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Modes of attendance (MoA)
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