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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.

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Offerings For Term 2 - 2025

Online

Attendance Requirements

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Class and Assessment Overview

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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 Student feedback (evaluations).

Feedback

Students found the unit materials useful and engaging, particularly the examples of transformative initiatives.

Recommendation

Maintain the engaging unit content, including the examples of real-world transformative initiatives, with regular updating of unit content as needed.

Feedback from Student Moodle feedback.

Feedback

Students appreciated the ability to choose groups and issues to focus on in their assessment pieces.

Recommendation

Maintain student choice of topics for assessment pieces.

Feedback from Student Moodle feedback.

Feedback

Some students struggled to identify systemic causes of a social/environmental issue for the first assessment piece.

Recommendation

Include more discussion of systemic causes in unit material and workshops.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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