BUSN20031 - Social Innovation

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit deals with how organisations and individuals confront the challenges of intransigent or wicked social problems. A basis for social innovation theory and practice will be explored. Social innovation solutions often work where traditional solutions fail, because social problems have become inured to traditional solutions. Social innovation solutions are often designed to be relatively low-cost, sustainable, and disruptive. You will be introduced to human centred design thinking and collaborative ways of using an eco-system approach to resolve complex problems by offering ways of providing social benefit. An introduction will be provided to the concept, practice and impact of measurement in a social innovation context. A case study analysis approach will be used to enable you to develop the ability to assess and evaluate solutions to enduring global social issues. Social innovation’s value is usually available to society rather than to individuals or individual organisations. A sophisticated understanding of how social innovation fits into the role of transformative global leadership will be provided. Finally, you will become equipped and adept at applying problem-solving skills, active/participatory research skills, and the notion of fast prototyping to ‘live test’ solutions.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

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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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Project (applied) 50%
2. Reflective Practice Assignment 40%
3. Online Quiz(zes) 10%

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%).

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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Reflect on the ability to drive positive social innovation and entrepreneurship in an organisational context
  2. Develop policies and practices to achieve positive social impact in a sustainable manner
  3. Apply principles of human centred design to support social innovation
  4. Assess the ethical aspect in social project design, practice and management

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2 - Reflective Practice Assignment •
3 - Online Quiz(zes) • •
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• Advanced Level
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2 - Communication •
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills •
4 - Research •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • •
7 - Leadership •
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