Work-related, Group
Assemblage-Based Project Report
Developed as an authentic assessment that simulates analytical skills as used in vocational and academic settings, this task has students analyse a real or created assemblage - a group of disciplinary-relevant artefacts, (e.g. in Archaeology, cultural objects, tools or skeletal remains from a specific site) to produce a written report.
Work-related, Group, Sequence
Group Site and Precedent Analysis for Design Studio
Students work in teams to collate and critically analyse a building site, and precedent building designs, that they will use for an individual design later in semester. They learn to work quickly in teams and to critically reflect on their own and team-mates work, in studio. The work is jointly presented in modified 'pecha kucha' style (20 slides for 30 seconds each only) to further share their ideas with the rest of the studio cohort.
Assessment method
Material Object Analysis (Report and Essay)
Students choose a material object from a specific collection (in the case of ANTH2208 the UQ Anthropology Museum) on which they must conduct an extended analysis over the duration of a semester. This object-centred learning assessment is divided into two components, an initial report and final research essay.
Sequence
Reflective Essay on Refugee Artefacts and Refugee Law
The assessment promotes critical reflection utilising refugee artefacts to enable law and politics students to connect their theoretical knowledge and understanding of international refugee law and human rights law with the 'lived experience' of certain asylum seekers detained offshore on Nauru or Manus Island. The assessment encourages students to reflect on their own learning experience by identifying and explaining the connections between selected refugee artefacts (including letters from the Burnside/Durham Collection in the Fryer Library, semi-autobiographical books, radio podcasts, cartoons, documentaries or op-ed newspaper pieces) and refugee and human rights law.