Innovation Week 2017 Teaching Colloquium - The Creative Curriculum (Session 1)
Real World Projects
A key feature of the new curriculum is the commitment that every student will connect their disciplinary knowledge with other disciplines in working on a real-world industry, community, research or entrepreneurship project.
This session will feature some of the highly innovative and successful trial project units that are already available:
- NSW Department of Parliamentary Services
Dr Amanda Eliot from the Department of Sociology and Social Policy is the coordinator of the unit 'INDP3000 Interdisciplinary Project' in which students prepare briefs for the NSW Department of Parliamentary Services on issues related to the use of drones or social media. In the first offering, students worked in multidisciplinary teams, each bringing their own unique disciplinary perspectives, to tackle four projects:- An examination of the legal and social implications of how drones are used by law enforcement authorities.
- A study of the adequacy of existing laws and policies in tracking technology facilitated abuse in a domestic violence context.
- An examination of the privacy concerns, regulation and policy for the future of drones in aerial photography.
- A study of the relationship between youth mental health and wellbeing, and social media usage.
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THRIVE Interdisciplinary Project
Dr Dan Caprar, A/Prof Rachael Hains-Wesson, Dr Betina Szkudlarek and Dr James Rooney from the Business School are coordinating this project unit which enables students to collaborate with the flagship partner THRIVE to support and nurture refugee entrepreneurs on their business start-ups for ‘real-world’ outcomes. THRIVE provides business loans for refugees and has identified a range of potential start-up projects that students will work with to evaluate products and services for successful marketing and business outcomes.
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Wednesday 16 August 2017
1.00pm - 2.00pm Education Building Lecture Theatre 351
Free