Supporting graduates who:

  • are able to question, analyse, interpret, and evaluate
  • can test new and innovative ideas, understandings, approaches, and opinions.

Experienced through curriculum that supports and enables:

  • identification of problems
  • healthy consideration and debate of meaningful issues
  • creative thinking to find novel solutions and measure the impact
  • resilience and flexibility through real world engagement.
Active Learning Assignment Using On-line Interactive Simulations

Science

Active Learning Assignment Using On-line Interactive Simulations

Students access on-line interactive simulations that allow the exploration of physical systems. They have control over the key parameters which they can actively change and observe the impact on the system under study. The assessment item requires them to explore a particular aspect of the simulation , demonstrating an understanding of the underlying physical processes. A variety of simulations are available across the internet for use across different discipline areas.

First year, Second year
Class size of 80-100
Open
Design Development Supported by a Virtual Environment

Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

Design Development Supported by a Virtual Environment

Delivered in an active learning environment, this work-integrated learning experience and authentic assessment task requires preparation of a written and diagrammatic report . Students critically analyse a given construction detail in 4-dimensions using an interactive digital learning environment, then apply their learning to a 3-dimensional analysis and resolution of two construction details derived from a team-based schematic design completed in the previous assignment.

Third year
Class size of 80-100
Open
Seminar Submission (written or negotiated)

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Seminar Submission (written or negotiated)

As part of a progressive series of seminars, this assessment item acts as the culminating piece for each seminar. The default submission format is a written piece lodged via Turn-It-In of between 750-1500 words - with greater weight allocated to the assessment items as the seminars progress. Because of the nature of the cohort (practising sport coaches) and the level of the program (post-graduate study), students are offered a degree of choice within each seminar (e.g. topic focus and submission format). Students are supported through this process through the seminar structure of reading week, discussion week, assessment week).

Post-graduate
Class size of 10-20
Open
Professional Poster Presentation on Employability

Business, Economics and Law

Professional Poster Presentation on Employability

An internship, reflective activities and two reflective assessments scaffolded students to create posters evidencing their employability, graduate attributes and their unique personal brand developed in workplace projects. Articulating their abilities, showing how they added value to current and potential employers, students demonstrated how these experiences can support future transition to their careers. Posters also showing their LinkedIn profile, career ambitions and skills assessments were displayed to industry representatives who provided feedback. Posters can be used as a resource during recruitment complementing a resume.

Post-graduate
Class size of 40-60
Open
Reflective Essay on Refugee Artefacts and Refugee Law

Business, Economics and Law

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.

Post-graduate
Class size of 40-60
Open
Creative Genre Writing with Reflection

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Creative Genre Writing with Reflection

Designed to develop student's critical awareness of their own writing practice and to learn modes of creative and reflective written genres, this assessment sees student write a short creative genre piece (in the case of WRIT1005 students write a children's short story) and produce an accompanying 500-word critical reflection .

First year, Second year, Third year
Class size of 100-500
Open
Simulation and 500 word group commentary

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Simulation and 500 word group commentary

Underpinned by active learning pedagogies that seek to marry theory and practice, this assessment sees students participate in a three-phase simulation exercise during the tutorial program (Weeks 9-11). Marks are allocated for participation and a 2-page group reflection to be completed after the completion of the simulation.

Second year, Third year
Class size of 10-20
Open
Writing Project: Development Process and Final Submission

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Writing Project: Development Process and Final Submission

Designed with an explicit focus on developing writing skills in first year students, this assessment adopts a design approach to a staged writing project . This assessment is divided into several scaffolded tasks that must be completed and submitted cumulatively throughout the semester.

First year
Class size of 100-500
Open
Short Creative Writing Piece

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Short Creative Writing Piece

This assessment is primarily designed to test students' compositional dexterity by focusing on emulating the selected genre. A portion of the overall mark is allocated for originality and creativity. While students must adhere to stylistic requirements they are free to write on a topic of their choosing, thus offering a personalised approach to learning.

First year
Class size of 80-100
Open
Poster and discussion

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Poster and discussion

Students choose a specific theory, or theoretical perspective, and apply this to an object analysis (of a cultural object, practice, or phenomena). This analysis is to be presented in the format of a poster. Students field questions from staff and students in relation to their poster during a roaming exhibition st analysis (of a cultural object, practice, or phenomena). This analysis is to be presented in the format of a poster . Students field questions from staff and students in relation to their poster during a roaming exhibition style Q&A.

Third year
Class size of 20-40
Secure