Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Conference abstract and conference presentation

• Fully integrates teaching and learning activities
• Hinges on students identifying and selecting topics that they feel passionate about.
• Keeps students present and engaged in the classroom.
• Makes theoretical material interesting and accessible, and it encourages students to explore the relevance of theoretical concepts for their future professional practice.
• Teaches students key skills for teamwork, including seeking, offering, and responding constructively to respectful and constructive feedback.
• Is extendable to a real-life student symposium or conference with international groups of students, who are working towards the same end: a student conference presentation on human rights, social justice and respect for diversity.

• Tutors require confidence in their own theoretical, practical , and professional knowledge base to be able to guide students as they identify viable topics for their conference abstracts.
• The marking guide is fairly complex and requires attention to a considerable number of details across the different parts of the student portfolios.
• Marking requires not just grading; it also has a feed-forward component to provide guidance to students as they prepare for their final assessment piece, that is, their conference presentations.

The task description provides detailed guidelines for the implementation of this task across the course of four weeks.

This assessment item seeks to meet five of the seven learning outcomes set for this course. Two further outcomes require teaching and tutorial content covered in weeks 9 to 12, i.e. after the due date for this assessment.

1. Understand the concepts of power and structure, using a range of theoretical perspectives.

2. Understand the concepts of human rights, social justice, and diversity, using relevant theoretical perspectives.

3. Explain the relationship between power and structure on the one hand, and social (in)justice, human rights, and respect for diversity on the other.

4. Articulate challenges facing people in contemporary Australia in terms of human rights, social justice, and respect for diversity.

7. Write, critique, and receive feedback on a conference abstract, and present a conference paper.

The use of artificial intelligence or machine translation technologies is permitted but must be referenced. Directions are provided on when and how the use of such technologies might prove useful. The use of these technologies must be referenced and will be assessed as part of the skills criterion in the marking rubric.