Aim

This assessment aims to have you reflect on the unit materials and use your sociological understanding by answering four portfolio questions. The questions offered require you to demonstrate an understanding of wicked social problems, the social change process, and knowledge of the human-centred design principles.

Instructions

You are required to submit a portfolio containing four 400-word answers (total 1600 words). Each question will be marked out of 20%, with 15% for referencing and 5% for writing quality overall to reach a total of 100%. Please see the Assessment 1 marking rubric.

Select four of the numbered activities/questions from the list below and provide an answer to each.

1. Select one wicked social problem from the following options (Climate change, poverty, discrimination, inequality). Identify a relevant social innovation for your selected wicked social problem and explain how it addresses the problem. Use examples in your answer to demonstrate your understanding of wicked problems and social innovations.

2. Read the case study options provided on the Moodle site for the Portfolio assessment (e.g., ethical sourcing of products by businesses). Select one of the case studies and discuss the social change solution implemented to support a marginalised social group. In your answer consider some of the principles of social change covered in the unit.

3. Select a social change movement (e.g., LGBTQ+ rights movement, women’s movement, labour movement) and briefly discuss the transformation of cultural and social norms for social change through the exercise of individual and collective power.

4. Identify one of the following social issues (income inequality, poverty, exploitative labour practices, unethical business practices). Use this social issue to discuss how re-framing the problem influences our understanding of it and presents the dominant discourse.

5. From the literature, identify where a human-centred design process has been applied to a social issue in an organisation, community, industry, sector, or government to produce social change. Explain the key principles that underly this process.

Please do not use dot points or numbered lists in your answer. You are encouraged to discuss your ideas and resources with the unit coordinator and others in the Moodle Discussion Forum and Zoom tutorial sessions.

A brief, concisely written answer to the question is more effective than a long, winded general comment. Where appropriate, refer to the literature to support your discussion and provide an in-text citation for sources you use. If you do use a direct quote, it should only be included if you then comment on what the author has said. If you use a direct quote as part of your discussion it must be indicated as such, and you will need to provide full reference details in APA referencing style.

Please follow the steps below to complete your assessment task:

1. Read the relevant required readings and view the weekly topic resources and tutorial material on the Moodle site and in the e-Reading list.

2. Familiarise yourself with the key concepts, perspectives, processes and principles covered in the unit.

3. Search the CQU library and databases for useful references for each of the chosen questions and undertake further reading.

4. Draft an outline for each of the four answers before writing your response. Use examples to illustrate your applied understanding.

5. Provide in-text citations to support your discussion and add a single reference list at the end of your portfolio.

Literature and references

In this assessment use a minimum of 5 contemporary references (<10 years) to support your discussion. You may use the set readings and seminal scholarly literature where relevant. Suitable references include peer-reviewed journal articles as well as textbooks and credible websites. When sourcing information, consider the 5 elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. Grey literature sourced from the internet must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies.

Requirements

• Use a conventional and legible size 12 font, such as Times New Roman or Arial, with 2.0 line spacing and 2.54cm page margins (standard pre-set margin in Microsoft Word). Include page numbers on the top right side of each page in a header.
• Write in the third-person perspective.
• Use formal academic language.
• Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online APA Referencing Style Guide.
• The word count is considered from the introduction's first word to the conclusion's last word. The word count excludes the reference list but includes in-text references and direct quotations. No table of contents, abstract, introduction, conclusion, or appendices are required for this assignment. The answers do not need images, tables, and graphs inserted in the portfolio or attached as appendices.

Resources

You can use unit provided materials found in the e-Reading list, and other credible sources (e.g., journal articles, books, grey literature) to reference your argument. The quality and credibility of your sources are important.

We recommend that you access your discipline specific library guide: the Social Work and Community Services Guide

We recommend you use EndNote to manage your citations and reference list. More information on how to use EndNote is available at the CQUniversity Library website.

For information on academic communication please go to the Academic Learning Centre Moodle site. The Academic Communication section has many helpful resources including information for students with English as a second language.

Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.

Marking Criteria

Refer to the marking rubric on the Moodle site for more detail on how marks will be assigned.

Re-attempt

In this unit, you may be offered to re-attempt a failed assessment task to demonstrate your achievement of one or more of the unit’s learning outcomes. A re-attempt will only be considered if you have demonstrated a reasonable attempt to complete every part of the assessment task.

If the Unit Coordinator allows you to re-attempt an assessment task, you must resubmit your revised work within seven (7) consecutive days of being notified about the re-attempt opportunity. A re-attempted assessment will receive a mark no greater than the minimum pass mark allowable for the original assessment task.

Assessment 1 Marking Rubric T1 2023.

In a globalised changing world that is being transformed through human interactions and interconnections, social problems are developed in the process. Globalisation is only one of several major factors influencing our society. Other factors are increasing technological impact, economic inequality, and pressure from powerful transnational corporations to name a few. Large-scale social changes in the form of global megatrends have been identified as future forces that will define social, ecological, and economic sectors of society over the next 20 years.

This assessment aims to write a case study using one of the seven global megatrends from the CSIRO report by Naughtin et al. (2022). Discuss how social innovations can be used in conjunction with human-centred design principles to address a wicked social problem arising from a CSIRO megatrend. In your case study, consider some of the positive social and environmental changes individuals can produce through social innovation and a human-centred design process.

Use the assigned weekly readings and lectures to help complete this task, along with material from the university library and databases. Further assessment information will be available on the Moodle site in the Assessment tile to assist you in your assignment preparation.

Instructions

Within this assignment, you will be required to do the following:

Select one of the global megatrends identified by CSIRO researchers in Our Future World report (Naughtin et al., 2022) and listed below that will impact Australia in the next 20 years (For further information go to https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/data/our-future-world).

• Adapting to climate change

• Leaner, cleaner, and greener

• The escalating health imperative

• Geopolitical shifts

• Diving the digital

• Increasingly autonomous

• Unlocking the human dimension

1. COVER PAGE- include your name, student number, course code and assessment details and word count (mandatory)

2. INTRODUCTION

Provide background information on the focus of the case study and explain the purpose of the case study. Briefly outline what will be covered in the assignment in the sequence it will be presented.

3. DISCUSSION

The discussion must be supported by literature, examples, and evidence of originality.

a) Choose a global megatrend you want to focus on and identify a wicked social problem. Use the literature to briefly define the problem and challenges.

b) Discuss using a human-centred design process. Consider the user needs and how these are fulfilled.

c) Identify a social innovation. Study the literature to identify a social innovation that addresses the wicked social problem and global megatrend chosen. Gather information about the social innovation and the wicked social problem it is trying to solve. The social innovation may be a technology, product or service and must meet the users’ needs.

d) Discuss the positive social and/or environmental changes produced by individuals.

4. CONCLUSION

Summarise the main points that have been made in the case study. It should provide closure and a final perspective on the topic. Restate the focus/aim of the case study in a new and more general way. No new ideas or information should be presented, meaning no references should appear in this part.

5. REFERENCES

Literature and references

In this assessment, use a minimum of 5 contemporary references (<10 years) to support your discussion. You may also use seminal scholarly literature where relevant. Suitable references include peer-reviewed journal articles as well as textbooks, and credible websites. When sourcing information, consider the 5 elements of a quality reference: currency, authority, relevance, objectivity, and coverage. Grey literature sourced from the internet must be from reputable websites such as from government, university, or peak national bodies: for example, the Australian Association of Social Workers.

Requirements

· Use a conventional and legible size 12 font, such as Times New Roman or Arial, with 2.0 line spacing and 2.54cm page margins (standard pre-set margin in Microsoft Word).

· Include page numbers on the top right side of each page in a header.

· Write in the third-person perspective.

· Use formal academic language.

· Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online CQU APA Referencing Styling Guide.

· The word count is considered from the introduction's first word to the conclusion's last word. The word count excludes the reference list but includes in-text references and direct quotations. Paraphrasing is preferred.

· No table of contents or appendices are required for this assignment.

Resources

You can use unit provided materials found in the e-Reading list, and other credible sources (e.g., journal articles, books, grey literature) to reference your argument. The quality and credibility of your sources are important.

We recommend that you access your discipline specific library guide: the Social Work and Community Services Guide

We recommend you use EndNote to manage your citations and reference list. More information on how to use EndNote is available on the CQUniversity Library website.

For information on academic communication please go to the Academic Learning Centre Moodle site. The Academic Communication section has many helpful resources including information for students with English as a second language.

Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.

Refer to the marking rubric on the Moodle site for more detail on how marks will be assigned.

Reference

Haughtin, C., Hajkowicz, S., Schleiger, E., Bratanova, A., Cameron, A., Zamin, T., & Dutta, A. (2022). Our Future World: Global megatrends impacting the way we live over coming decades. https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/data/our-future-world

Re-attempt

In this unit, you may be offered to re-attempt a failed assessment task to demonstrate your achievement of one or more of the unit’s learning outcomes. A re-attempt will only be considered if you have demonstrated a reasonable attempt to complete every part of the assessment task.

If the Unit Coordinator allows you to re-attempt an assessment task, you must resubmit your revised work within seven (7) consecutive days of being notified about the re-attempt opportunity. A re-attempted assessment will receive a mark no greater than the minimum pass mark allowable for the original assessment task.

Assessment 2 Marking Rubric T1 2023.