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
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 - 2026
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).
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 Student evaluation.
Students stated that the Unit Coordinator provided additional support and feedback when requested, which they found helpful and were able to apply to other assessments.
Continue to provide responsive, individualised support through consultation times and targeted feedback, and make these opportunities more explicit early in the term to encourage proactive student engagement.
Feedback from Student evaluation.
Students reported that the Unit Coordinator encouraged them to connect course content with their own personal contexts, which enhanced the realism, value, and usefulness of the material.
Maintain and further develop opportunities within tutorials and assessments for students to apply course concepts to their own personal and professional contexts, reinforcing the applied relevance of wellbeing theory.
Feedback from Student evaluation.
Students noted that audiovisual content and interactive tutorials supported engagement, with videos and targeted readings making the material more accessible than text-heavy formats alone.
Maintain and enhance the video content and interactive experiences in tutorials.
Feedback from Student evaluation.
Students expressed some confusion regarding the alignment between task outlines, marking criteria, and rubrics.
Review and refine assessment documentation to ensure clearer alignment between task descriptions, marking criteria, and rubrics, including explicit statements about expected cognitive level and assessment focus.