CQUniversity Unit Profile
PSYC20040 Wellbeing Initiatives: Local and Global Scales
Wellbeing Initiatives: Local and Global Scales
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General Information

Overview

In this unit, you will examine and critique wellbeing and resilience initiatives in community, national and global settings. Initiatives will include not-for-profit organisations, social innovation enterprises, local and state government projects, intentional communities and cooperatives, and global wellbeing and resilience movements. You will research and evaluate successful and unsuccessful city/urban, and rural-based initiatives, and apply that knowledge to design a wellbeing initiative for a local application.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate
Unit Level: Level 8
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

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

Online

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).

Class and Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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

Bundaberg, Cairns, Emerald, Gladstone, Mackay, Rockhampton, Townsville
Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

Assessment Overview

1. Online resource/s
Weighting: 20%
2. Written Assessment
Weighting: 30%
3. Practical Assessment
Weighting: 50%

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.

Previous Student Feedback

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 Moodle Have Your Say

Feedback

Students report that the practical, applied focus of the assessments helped them implement the underpinning theory.

Recommendation

The Unit will continue to use practical, applied assessments.

Feedback from Unit Coordinator's observations through the assessments and tutorials

Feedback

The Unit Coordinator observed that some students struggled with understanding how a systems perspective can be used to improve individual and community wellbeing.

Recommendation

Additional lecture notes and tutorial activities will be provided to students to support their understanding of how a systems perspective can be used with individuals and communities to improve wellbeing.

Unit Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
  1. Evaluate local, national and international wellbeing and resilience programs.
  2. Apply evidence-based research, and generic principles of wellbeing and resilience programs, to the design of a small-scale wellbeing project.
  3. Demonstrate communication skills which convey a compelling and persuasive argument for an innovative small-scale wellbeing program.
Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes
N/A Level
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Professional Level
Advanced Level

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes

Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Online resource/s - 20%
2 - Written Assessment - 30%
3 - Practical Assessment - 50%

Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes

Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Knowledge
2 - Communication
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills
4 - Research
5 - Self-management
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility
7 - Leadership
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes

Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 - Online resource/s - 20%
2 - Written Assessment - 30%
3 - Practical Assessment - 50%
Textbooks and Resources

Textbooks

There are no required textbooks.

IT Resources

You will need access to the following IT resources:
  • CQUniversity Student Email
  • Internet
  • Unit Website (Moodle)
Referencing Style

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.

Teaching Contacts
Danielle Every Unit Coordinator
d.every@cqu.edu.au
Schedule
Week 1 Begin Date: 11 Jul 2022

Module/Topic

From individual to interdependent wellbeing

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic

Tutorial: Week 1 Thursday (14 July 2022) 6:30-8:00pm AEST

Week 2 Begin Date: 18 Jul 2022

Module/Topic

Flourishing communities

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic

Zoom drop-in session: Friday 22 July 2022 12.30 to 1.30pm AEST

Week 3 Begin Date: 25 Jul 2022

Module/Topic

Transformative change

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic



Assessment 1 Curation of wellbeing initiatives Due: Week 3 Monday (25 July 2022) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 4 Begin Date: 01 Aug 2022

Module/Topic

Frameworks for transformative change I: Asset-Based Community Development

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic

Week 5 Begin Date: 08 Aug 2022

Module/Topic

Frameworks for transformative change II: Prilleltensky's SPEC model

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic

Tutorial: Week 5 Thursday 11 August 2022) 6:30-8:00 pm AEST

Vacation Week Begin Date: 15 Aug 2022

Module/Topic

No module/topics this week

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Zoom drop-in session: Friday 19 August 2022 12.30 to 1.30pm AEST

Week 6 Begin Date: 22 Aug 2022

Module/Topic

Intentional communities, eco-villages and co-housing

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic



Assessment 2 Critically evaluating wellbeing initiatives Due: Week 6 Monday (22 Aug 2022) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 7 Begin Date: 29 Aug 2022

Module/Topic

Community-based food security

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic


Week 8 Begin Date: 05 Sep 2022

Module/Topic

Placemaking

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic

Tutorial: Week 8 Thursday (8 September 2022) 6:30-8:00 pm AEST

Week 9 Begin Date: 12 Sep 2022

Module/Topic

First Nations People wellbeing initiatives


Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic

Week 10 Begin Date: 19 Sep 2022

Module/Topic

Initiatives for social connectedness

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic

Zoom drop-in session: Friday 23 September 2022 12.30 to 1.30pm AEST

Week 11 Begin Date: 26 Sep 2022

Module/Topic

Social innovation and social enterprises

Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic

Assessment 3 Designing a small-scale community wellbeing initiative Due: Week 11 Monday (26 Sept 2022) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 12 Begin Date: 03 Oct 2022

Module/Topic

Art and music wellbeing initiatives


Chapter

Please see selected readings and activities on Moodle

Events and Submissions/Topic

Review/Exam Week Begin Date: 10 Oct 2022

Module/Topic

There are no examinations for this unit. 

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Exam Week Begin Date: 17 Oct 2022

Module/Topic

There are no examinations for this unit. 

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Assessment Tasks

1 Online resource/s

Assessment Title
Assessment 1 Curation of wellbeing initiatives

Task Description

For Assessment 1 you will choose a community wellbeing issue and find existing initiatives which respond to this issue.

This assessment has two parts.

Part 1

Outline a community wellbeing issue and the systemic factors which create it. 

Word length: 300 (10%+/-).

You need to include references both in the body of your summary and in a reference list. The word limit excludes your reference list.

Part 2

You will identify 4 existing community-level initiatives that respond to this issue by taking a transformative rather than an individual/internal approach to change.

For each initiative please include:

1. Title of initiative

2. A link to a website or social media page or, if they’re not online, an information brochure

3. A brief summary of how they address the issue you’ve identified

Word length: 100 (+/- 10%) words for each initiative


Assessment Due Date

Week 3 Monday (25 July 2022) 5:00 pm AEST


Return Date to Students

Week 5 Monday (8 Aug 2022)

Assessment feedback and grades will be available 2 weeks after submission.


Weighting
20%

Assessment Criteria

The assessment is graded on:

  1. Understanding community wellbeing and structural causes of wellbeing
  2. Relevance, comprehensiveness and clear summarising of an issue and curation of appropriate initiatives
  3. Understanding and use of research evidence, including quality of resources


Referencing Style

Submission
Online

Submission Instructions
The assessment will be submitted through Moodle.

Learning Outcomes Assessed
  • Evaluate local, national and international wellbeing and resilience programs.


Graduate Attributes
  • Knowledge
  • Communication
  • Research

2 Written Assessment

Assessment Title
Assessment 2 Critically evaluating wellbeing initiatives

Task Description

For Assessment 2, you will choose two of the initiatives curated in Assessment 1 and then you will identify and critically evaluate the elements of these two initiatives.

For each of initiative you will:

1. List the program elements (e.g. mentoring by local business owners, a community garden; political action; consciousness-raising)

2. For each program element, identify and summarise the research support for the efficacy/outcomes of this type of activity. Use quality peer-reviewed empirical journal articles.

3. Critique and discuss any relevant shortcomings of the initiatives based on:

a. The research findings

b. A model of transformative change: Asset-Based Community Development and/or Prilleltensky's SPEC (Strengths, Prevention, Empowerment, Community Change) model

c. How the initiative impacts the environment

d. Diversity and inclusion – who is included and excluded

4. Suggest practical improvements based on your critique that could be made to the two initiatives so that they better meet their proposed outcomes. (Check: do the practical improvements you’re suggesting have wider positive or negative impacts on the ‘system’ e.g. do they have environmental impacts, resource requirements)


WORD LIMIT: 1,500 +/- 10%

This word limit includes in-text citations but excludes any reference section. Meeting the word count is included as a marking criteria in your marking rubric on Moodle. See the Psychology Word Count Information document for a rationale for using this type of word limit restriction.



Assessment Due Date

Week 6 Monday (22 Aug 2022) 5:00 pm AEST


Return Date to Students

Week 8 Monday (5 Sept 2022)

Assessment feedback will be available 2 weeks after submission


Weighting
30%

Assessment Criteria

The assessment will be evaluated on:

  1. Accuracy and clarity in identifying program elements
  2. Use of relevant research findings and models of transformative change to evaluate the programs' effectiveness in enhancing community wellbeing
  3. Development of evidence-based recommendations for modifying the programs using the research and models of change
  4. Written comprehension, referencing and adherence to word limit



    Referencing Style

    Submission
    Online

    Submission Instructions
    The assessment will be submitted online through Moodle.

    Learning Outcomes Assessed
    • Evaluate local, national and international wellbeing and resilience programs.
    • Apply evidence-based research, and generic principles of wellbeing and resilience programs, to the design of a small-scale wellbeing project.
    • Demonstrate communication skills which convey a compelling and persuasive argument for an innovative small-scale wellbeing program.


    Graduate Attributes
    • Knowledge
    • Communication
    • Research
    • Self-management

    3 Practical Assessment

    Assessment Title
    Assessment 3 Designing a small-scale community wellbeing initiative

    Task Description

    In Assessment 3, you will design a small-scale community wellbeing initiative using transformative change principles.

    You will present your initiative by recording a short presentation. 


    Your presentation will include:

    1. The proposed name of your initiative

      2. Describe your program/initiative

           a. What it is and how it responds to the issue

           b. For the ‘how’ part, you will

                i. Utilise a framework for change (Asset-Based Community Development and/or Prilleltensky's Strengths, Prevention, Empowerment, Collective Change model) and outline how the program  fits with this framework

                ii. Detail the research evidence-base for the program elements

                iii. Highlight the ways the initiative incorporates environmental care into the design

      3. Provide a reference list of all research, image and sound sources, either as part of your film or in a separate document (its probably easier to make this the last slide in your film though).

      Please use creative ways to present your initiative – animation, images, music. The communication aim is to persuade and convince people of the usefulness, feasibility and potential of your initiative.

      LENGTH: Your presentation will be a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 10 minutes in length. Meeting the time limit for the presentation is included as a marking criteria in your marking rubric on Moodle. See the Psychology Word Count Information document for a rationale for using this type of restriction.


      Assessment Due Date

      Week 11 Monday (26 Sept 2022) 5:00 pm AEST


      Return Date to Students

      Review/Exam Week Monday (10 Oct 2022)

      Assessment feedback will be available two weeks after submission.


      Weighting
      50%

      Assessment Criteria

      The assessment will be evaluated on:

      1. Critical use of research and transformative change models to develop an evidence-based program that addresses a community wellbeing issue
      2. Persuasiveness and creativity of presentation
      3. Adherence to referencing and time limit requirements



      Referencing Style

      Submission
      Online

      Submission Instructions
      The assessment will be submitted through Moodle.

      Learning Outcomes Assessed
      • Apply evidence-based research, and generic principles of wellbeing and resilience programs, to the design of a small-scale wellbeing project.
      • Demonstrate communication skills which convey a compelling and persuasive argument for an innovative small-scale wellbeing program.


      Graduate Attributes
      • Knowledge
      • Communication
      • Cognitive, technical and creative skills
      • Research
      • Ethical and Professional Responsibility

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