ATS3938 Social change in practice (overseas intensive)
Faculty of Arts
ATS3938 Social change in practice (overseas intensive) is a level 3, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2025 in Summer A at Overseas. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Summer A
- Overseas
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS3938
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After ATS3938
No unit lists ATS3938 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Pre-requisite: Must be enrolled in ATS2086 prior to enrolling in this unit.
Corequisite: Must be enrolled in course code A2001, A2015, B2006, L3009 or S2003.
Overview
This unit builds on the foundations of Leadership for Social Change and Agency and Social Change. The unit will provide a forum in which you will bring together both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary skills that you have acquired over your study and synthesise this knowledge to formulate practical and innovative approaches to global challenges. The international location of this unit will allow you to refine both your leadership skills and your intercultural awareness.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Summer semester A | Overseas | On campus, block |
Assessment
- Forum postExercise20%
- Multimedia presentationPresentation30%
- Critical investigationProject50%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Apply interdisciplinary methods to a range of contemporary regional and/or global challenges;
- 2
Independently construct approaches to understanding to a range of contemporary regional and/or global challenges;
- 3
Demonstrate an awareness of different cultural contexts and their importance in mediating social change;
- 4
Demonstrate advanced critical and analytical skills;
- 5
Communicate outcomes of new knowledge in an effective way, both orally and in writing;
- 6
Build on and develop collaborative and leadership skills.
Workload and teaching
- Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
- Teaching approachRole play
- Teaching approachResearch activities
- Teaching approachEnquiry-based learning
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachCase-based teaching
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Frances Egan
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Frances Egan
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS3938?
ATS3938 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS3938 offered?
In 2025, ATS3938 runs in Summer A at Overseas.
How much work is ATS3938?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ATS3938 have an exam?
No. ATS3938 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.