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OLET1403: Student Leadership: Community Engagement
2027 unit information
Effective leadership involves listening to and working in partnership with the community that you’re serving. This unit aims to provide you with foundational skills and knowledge to work collaboratively with communities on projects that are important to them. The learning activities are online and asynchronous and focus on developing your skills in understanding community needs, developing effective partnership and maintaining ongoing relationships with communities. Assessments can be personalised to communities that are relevant and interesting to you. Students wishing to extend their leadership knowledge can undertake related Student Leadership OLEs in Representation and Peer Mentoring, each of which are 2 credits points.
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Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Health Sciences |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. develop strategies for effective engagement with stakeholders and community leaders through effective written and verbal communication, including effective interviewing skills.
- LO2. demonstrate positive and constructive attitudes of curiosity, acceptance, integrity and authenticity towards stakeholders, including demonstration of perspective thinking and empathy.
- LO3. demonstrate reflective skills and plans for improvement when dealing with leadership issues in the community, workplace and industry.
- LO4. demonstrate adaptive approach to problem solving using a myriad of approaches such as systems and complex thinking.
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Semester 1 2027
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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