SRR767 - Built Environment Study Tour
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
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| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 3: Study Tour |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 3: Susan Ang |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | Study Tour: 3 x 2 hour pre study tour seminar, 1 x 2 hour pre study tour travel safe workshop, minimum one week of study tour. |
Note:Entry to this unit is via application and interview. Students are required to fund their own travel and accommodation costs and activities undertaken in this unit.
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Content
SRR767 is a study tour unit designed for the postgraduate student, which will draw on the area of the student’s study irrespective of their discipline or campus. The unit offers students collaborative, immersive and experiential learning opportunities. The study tour enables students to address topical challenges associated with real world problems and to engage first hand with design understanding of built environment within diverse contexts and cultures. Skills will include cross cultural communication, personal goal setting, self-management and organisational skills, reflection, analysis and design, and development and implementation of study tour project. The substantive outcomes will vary according to the stream of study and will include exhibition quality presentation of both individual and collective effort.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Plan, organise and undertake creative research surrounding context analysis that identifies issues pertaining to cultural social, and environmentally sustainable built environment problems to establish project inception that responds to socially and culturally diverse contexts of the study tour. | GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO2 | Accumulate and document specialist knowledge of theories, processes and practice using the frameworks of methodical research, creative activity to demonstrate capacity for reflection on actions of professional learning gained through the study tour experience. | GLO6: Self-management |
| ULO3 | Apply interpersonal and cross cultural skills to interact, contribute and collaborate in team learning activities to create and produce a cohesive group presentation for exhibition that clearly communicate the collaborative intentions and outcomes of the study tour. | GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO4 | Formulate considered responses that demonstrate concern appreciation and reflection of social and cultural diversity in local and/or global contexts and the applications of ethical and sustainable approaches to identified context based problems. | GLO8: Global citizenship |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Context analysis report | Written report, 2,000-word maximum | 20% | Respective due dates for different study tours |
| Study tour presentation | Collaborative written report (5,000-word maximum), and 10-minute presentation | 50% | Respective due dates for different study tours |
| Post study tour reflection | Electronic folio 40-page maximum | 30% | Respective due dates for different study tours |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SRR767 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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