Supporting graduates who:

  • are responsible, independent, outward- looking
  • understand their communities
  • are active, constructive, participants in society.

Experienced through curriculum that supports and enables:

  • learning to recognise and capitalise on the strengths and talents of self and others
  • development of emotional intelligence and respect for diversity
  • opportunities for responsible participation in civic life and appropriate advocacy
  • opportunities to engage in self-reflection about an individual’s impact within wider groups.
MRI Clinical Placement 1

Science

MRI Clinical Placement 1

Work Integrated Learning (WIL) requires assessment in the field. This course assesses students on reflective journal and two clinical case studies.

Post-graduate
Class size of 10-20
Open
Examining Cases: Non-ideal Medical Ethics

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Examining Cases: Non-ideal Medical Ethics

This end-of-semester examination involves providing students with a court ruling on a medical case that most will not have come across until that point. Students are expected to read the case under exam conditions, and bring their learning over the course of the semester to bear on their interpretation of the salient medical and legal points raised, determining their ethical implications. This is then tested over a number of multiple choice questions delivered via Examsoft.

Post-graduate
Class size of 100-500
Secure
Interactive Scenario for Professional and Ethical Decision Making

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Interactive Scenario for Professional and Ethical Decision Making

Real world interactive scenario for professional and ethical decision making challenges. Built for 4th year Dentistry students and assessed with a personal reflection driven by targeted questions, and with a marking matrix embedded.

Third year
Class size of 80-100
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
Authentic Assessment in Medicine and Public Health

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Authentic Assessment in Medicine and Public Health

Authentic assessment, group / team work, environmental impact on public health, improving health outcomes, vlogging, scaffolding, presentation , applying learning to practice, linking course materials and learning activities with the learning objectives.

Post-graduate
Class size of 500+
Open
'Phone a Friend' Task

Business, Economics and Law

'Phone a Friend' Task

One of the most common criticisms of law students on clinical placements is that they lack telephone communication skills. Speaking confidently over the telephone is an important part of working with clients, especially in law where advice is often provided over the phone. The 'phone a friend' task meets two aims at once: ensuring students have prepared for class, and encouraging them to develop their oral communication skills when using the telephone.

Second year, Third year
Class size of 80-100
Open
Participatory Media Production Project

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Participatory Media Production Project

This authentic assessment sees students work collaboratively in groups to engage an external participant group in the production of media output based on topical and generative themes selected by the organisation participant through processes of facilitation and discussion.

Post-graduate
Class size of 20-40
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
Peer-led Class Engagement Activities

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Peer-led Class Engagement Activities

Designed as a low weighted, in-class activity to increase student engagement and to foster skills in facilitation and leadership, this assessment sees students take on the role of leading various small activities. These may include preparing the learning environment, facilitating a class warm-up activity, or hosting a mid-class break.

First year, Second year, Third year, Post-graduate
Class size of 20-40
Secure
Problem Based Learning Workshop Activities

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Problem Based Learning Workshop Activities

Underpinned by a problem-based learning pedagogy (PBL), this assessment sees students attend weekly workshops where they are presented with a scenario based on weekly course content (and related to a contemporary, real-world issue). Students work in small groups to formulate a response or solution to the problem/s, discussed in class.

First year, Second year, Third year, Post-graduate
Class size of 40-60
Open