Overview
Building upon concepts in earlier units , you will explore the notion of community, safety, education and their role in the prevention, preparedness and response to emergency situations and contexts. You will identify theories that specifically support social approaches to learning and apply those approaches to your chosen context. Using real world examples and situations this unit also considers the variables that impact upon community safety and education and the design of activities for individuals and groups within the community, particularly those with complex needs.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2022
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Self-reflection
Content
Continue to incorporate contemporary community safety and education examples.
- Identify safety and education needs within the community.
- Assess the variables that impact upon community safety and education.
- Evaluate contemporary perspectives on community-based learning, safety and education.
- Design activities for individuals and groups within the community including those with complex needs.
- Work collaboratively with individuals and groups to enhance learning in a range of settings.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||
2 - Written Assessment - 40% | |||||
3 - Written Assessment - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication | |||||
2 - Problem Solving | |||||
3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
4 - Information Literacy | |||||
5 - Team Work | |||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
8 - Ethical practice | |||||
9 - Social Innovation | |||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
2 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||||
3 - Written Assessment - 40% |
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA 7th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.delport@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Theme One: Conceptualising community and community resilience
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Online Classroom Session - Introduction and Unit Overview (Wednesday 9:00am to 10:00am AEST)
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Theme One: Conceptualising community and community resilience
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Theme One: Conceptualising community and community resilience
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Online Classroom Drop-in Help Session (Wednesday 9:00am to 10:00am AEST)
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Theme Two: Conceptualising safety and education
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Theme Two: Conceptualising safety and education
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Theme Three: Safety and education in the community
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Online Classroom Drop-in Help Session (Wednesday 9:00am to 10:00am AEST)
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Theme Three: Safety and education in the community
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Theme Four: Through the learning lens
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Theme Four: Through the learning lens
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Theme Five: In your own backyard
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1 Written Assessment
In order to understand the safety and education needs within a community and the variables that impact upon safety and education, you need to understand the concepts of community and community resilience. These concepts are foundational and from their broad conceptual view you can plan and develop broadly applicable and more importantly for this unit, specific community safety and education activities. Given this, in assessment task one you will focus on your understanding of these core concepts and what they tell us about the safety and education needs and the variables present within a given community.
Assessment Task One is broken into two separate but linked sections. In section one you will argue your understanding of the concept of community, and how that links to the academic literature and to the views of your fellow students. In section two you will argue your understanding of the concept of community resilience, and how that links to the academic literature and to the views of your fellow students.
Therefore, the assessment task is based on your engagement with the unit content, the broader academic literature and the posts you and your fellow students make to the activity forums. In your response to each section, you will need to incorporate ideas from two activity posts: one of your own posts plus at least one from another student in the group. As such:
Section 1) Using your own forum post(s) as a basis, you will argue for your understanding of the concept of community and how that links to the broader academic literature and to what at least one other post from the group says.
Section 2) Using your own forum post(s) as a basis, you will argue for your understanding of the concept of community resilience and how that links to the broader literature and to what at least one other post from the group says.
Note: You may utilise the forum post of your fellow students to support your view or you may utilise it to contrast with your view. A copy of the selected forum posts must be included as a separate section. Sections 1) and 2) combined will be up to 1000 - 1400 words, not including the copy of the forum posts. The copy of the forum posts is therefore in addition to the word count. Importantly, your response must be supported by appropriate literature (please refer to the assessment criteria rubric).
Presentation Guidelines
Assessment one is submitted via Moodle. You are free to present the response in a written format that best suits you, however, it must include:
a) Title page
b) Response to concept of community,
c) Response to the concept of community resilience.
d) Direct copy of the forum posts being utilised (NOT included in word count)
Week 4 Wednesday (3 Aug 2022) 4:00 pm AEST
Submitted via Moodle.
Week 6 Wednesday (24 Aug 2022)
Assessments will usually be marked and returned within two weeks.
The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric, which is available from the Moodle site.
However, broadly you will be assessed on:
- Knowledge of the concept of community and community resilience
- Application of knowledge and skills in relation to the concept of community and community resilience
- Communication and presentation
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Identify safety and education needs within the community.
- Assess the variables that impact upon community safety and education.
2 Written Assessment
In assessment task two you will explore the notion of safety and education and more particularly safety and education in relation to a group and/or geographic location you choose and real-life safety and education activities. As such, assessment task two is broken into two separate but linked sections.
Section 1) In section 1) you will select a real-life safety and education activity from the nine (9) examples provided to you in the “Tailored Examples” page in Theme One of the Moodle site. Once you have selected your activity, you must analyse the activity and answer the following questions:
- What is the name of the activity?
- Who produced the activity?
- What is the target group/ and or target location of the activity?
- What is one characteristic of this group and/ or geographic location? How is this characteristic conceptualised in two (2) separate pieces of literature?
- What is the broad aim of the activity?
- What are the key messages of the activity?
- How is the activity delivered to the target audience?
- What is one strength and limitation of this approach?
- In what ways is the activity specifically targeted to meet the needs of the group and/or geographic location?
- Why might these choices have been made (in relation to your group and/ or geographic location)?
Section 2) In section 2), you select a specific group from within the broader community and/or a geographical location that you would like to explore in more detail and conduct an analysis. Firstly, you will identify and provide an overview of the group and/or geographic location and use the literature to support your discussion. You will then identify and using appropriate literature (please refer to the assessment criteria rubric) explore specific characteristics or attributes of the group and/ or geographic location, for example (but not limited to), language, cultural characteristics, issues of mobility, geographic features such as isolation, being flood or cyclone prone and so forth. You will then discuss how these characteristics or attributes may impact or influence community safety and education for the group and/or geographic location.
Presentation Guidelines:
You are free to present the response in a written format that best suits you, however, will be 1500 – 1800 words (approx.) and must include a:
a) Title page;
b) Section 1;
c) Section 2.
Week 8 Wednesday (7 Sept 2022) 4:00 pm AEST
Submitted via Moodle.
Week 10 Wednesday (21 Sept 2022)
Assessments will usually be marked and returned within two weeks.
The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric which is available from the Moodle site. Broadly, you will be assessed on:
- Knowledge of community safety and education
- Skills in community safety and education
- Application of knowledge and skills in community safety and education
- Communication and presentation of knowledge and skills
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Assess the variables that impact upon community safety and education.
- Evaluate contemporary perspectives on community-based learning, safety and education.
- Work collaboratively with individuals and groups to enhance learning in a range of settings.
3 Written Assessment
Assessment Task Three draws on your work from assessment task one and two and allows you to plan a real-life activity. In this assessment task you will take the group and/or geographical location you selected in assessment task two, and then propose a safety and education activity and its implementation. Importantly, you will also discuss the ways in which you would involve the group itself in implementing the activity that is, your collaboration with the group and/ or geographical location. Therefore, the community safety and education activity must be suitable for use within a group context and plan to be implemented in collaboration with a group.
As such, Assessment Task Three consists of two sections, including:
Section 1) You will select an existing community safety issue, for example, flood safety, bushfire safety, water safety and propose a community safety and education activity which is specifically tailored to your chosen group and/or geographic location. Using references (please refer to the assessment criteria rubric) to support your work, you will answer the following questions:
- What is the aim of your proposed activity?
- What are the key messages of the activity?
- Who is the target group and/ or geographic location?
- Why are these messages important, and in particular, to your chosen group and/ or location?
- What does the chosen activity look like (what are its elements)?
- Why have you proposed it to look this way (why have you selected these particular elements)?
Note: Using the literature (please refer to the assessment criteria rubric), you must provide a rationale for your specific choices above.
Section 2) Copy of the implementation plan for the proposed activity. The implementation plan must clearly articulate a collaboration with the intended target group and/ or geographic location (and others as is appropriate). For example, what steps you propose to be taken, who will be involved in those steps. Again, using the literature you must provide a rationale for the particular approach.
Presentation Guidelines:
You are free to construct the response in a style that best suits you and your activity (including, if useful, images or pictures). The submitted assessment will be up to 2000 words and include as a minimum:
a) Title page;
b) Community safety and education activity and rationale;
c) Implementation plan for the activity and rationale for your implementation choices.
Week 12 Wednesday (5 Oct 2022) 4:00 pm AEST
Submitted through Moodle.
Exam Week Wednesday (19 Oct 2022)
Assessments will usually be marked and returned within two weeks.
The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric which is available from the Moodle site. However, broadly you will be assessed on:
- The analysis of contemporary community safety issues
- The design of the community safety and education activity
- The collaborative approach to safety and education
- The presentation of the written task.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
- Evaluate contemporary perspectives on community-based learning, safety and education.
- Design activities for individuals and groups within the community including those with complex needs.
- Work collaboratively with individuals and groups to enhance learning in a range of settings.
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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