95010 TD: Reframing, remixing, reimagining society +
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Credit points: 8 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Description
In this subject, students interrogate their personal and disciplinary mental models, worldviews, biases and assumptions to explore how complex societal problems are currently framed. Students examine a range of alternative perspectives from across disciplinary and professional areas and work in multidisciplinary teams to playfully remix them in order to generate alternative approaches to challenges posed by industry or community partners. A range of creative methods are used to cultivate a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and inventiveness, while also identifying and dealing with unknowns. Through generating novel responses to real-world challenges, students develop awareness about their own disciplinary practices and thinking; they learn to collaborate across differences, generate insights well beyond their discipline, and use these insights to create new avenues for action in the real-world.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
| 1. | Examine and evaluate creative methods and practices from across a range of disciplines and professional domains. |
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| 2. | Identify significant issues, questions and opportunities and analyse them from different perspectives. |
| 3. | Generate imaginative responses to real-world challenges by integrating creative approaches from a range of disciplines. |
| 4. | Develop a cohesive rationale for proposals and communicate ideas persuasively to diverse audiences. |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject contributes specifically to the development of the following course intended learning outcomes:
- Explore the relevance of patterns, frameworks, approaches and methods from different disciplines, professional practices or fields of inquiry for gaining insights into particular problems, proposals, practices, contexts and systems (CII.2.2)
- Communicate, explore, network and negotiate in ways that are inclusive of and mine for ideas from diverse disciplines (CII.3.1)
- Articulate often-complex ideas simply, succinctly and persuasively to a diverse team or audience (CII.3.4)
- Identify significant issues, challenges or opportunities and assess potential to act creatively on them (CII.4.1)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
The subject provides opportunities for you to examine your disciplinary perspective and assumptions by working with peers from across of a range of different disciplines. You examine a range of methods, techniques and approaches to devise a unique transdisciplinary approach for responding to complex social challenges. You explore different ways of understanding and framing problems to create new opportunities and explore how existing patterns of practices can be creatively reframed, remixed and reimagined to achieve positive transformation.
So your experiences as a student in this subject will support you to develop the following Creative Intelligence graduate attributes (GA):
- GA 2 - Creating value in problem solving and inquiry • GA 3 Inter- and trans-disciplinary practices
- GA 4 - Imaginative and ethical citizenship
Teaching and learning strategies
This subject is offered in a blended mode. Students interact with online modules to gain understanding of relevant concepts and frameworks, and have the opportunity to engage in weekly synchronous online plenary sessions. This learning is then applied in collaborative, immersive and experiential tutorials (depending on the tutorial group, face-to-face or online studio environment) where students tackle a real-world challenge posed by an industry or community partner. As students experiment with creative practices by drawing on cases and approaches from across different disciplines, they have ongoing opportunities for formative feedback by peers and academic staff.
Content (topics)
- Resilience frameworks
- Disciplinary practices
- Creative methods and practices
- Transdisciplinary approaches
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Sense-making: (Trans)disciplinary practices
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2 and 4 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): CII.2.2, CII.3.4 and CII.4.1 |
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| Type: | Portfolio |
| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed |
| Weight: | 50% |
Assessment task 2: Social challenge
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 2, 3 and 4 This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s): CII.3.1, CII.3.4 and CII.4.1 |
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| Type: | Report |
| Groupwork: | Group, group and individually assessed |
| Weight: | 50% |
Minimum requirements
Students must attempt each assessment task and achieve an overall pass mark in order to pass this subject. A minimum of 80% of attendance of classes (as outlined in the timetable) is required.
Required texts
There are no compulsory texts for this subject. Recommended readings and materials will be provided through the UTS Library Reading List and Canvas.