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ENGD3004: Innovations for Global Peace and Education
2025 unit information
This unit takes a multidisciplinary approach to address complex human challenges of the 21st century by engaging students with leaders, policy makers, and personnel in sustainable development and humanitarian aid. Through experiential learning and systems thinking approaches, students in this unit will develop innovative solutions to advance gender equity and improve global peace, education and literacy. This unit will emphasise students' engaged citizenship and collaboration to enhance their cultural competence, leadership, creativity, complex problem-solving and inter-personal skills required to innovate, and problem solve in today's dynamic world.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Biomedical Engineering |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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48 credit points completed and confirmation of enrolment in the Dalyell stream |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Be able to bridge and embed ethical considerations with practical solutions.
- LO2. Be able to work effectively as a multidisciplinary team by appreciating and leveraging individual strengths and identifying areas for growth.
- LO3. Be able to exercise leadership and team skills to create viable outcomes within a short timeframe.
- LO4. Be able to research a complex social problem, gather data, identify contextual factors, and synthesize findings to produce information and evidence-based guidelines useful to policy makers and practitioners.
- LO5. Be able to communicate findings in various multimedia formats (e.g., written text, video, audio, boardroom presentation).
- LO6. Be able to develop a holistic view about how people and institutions interact together in achieving common goals.
- LO7. Be able to develop leadership and engaged citizenship skills required to address social problems.
- LO8. Be able to engage with others from different backgrounds and cultures in multi-disciplinary contexts.
- LO9. Be able to creatively address open ended challenges using different systems thinking approaches.
- LO10. Be able to develop an understanding of the dynamics and inter-connectedness of the open systems.
- LO11. Be able to analyse systems and recommend innovative socio-technical solutions to significant social problems.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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