BAS5515 Facilitating systemic change
Faculty of Science
BAS5515 Facilitating systemic change is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Science, offered in 2026 in Semester 2 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2026
- Semester 2
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2026 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before BAS5515
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After BAS5515
No unit lists BAS5515 as a prerequisite in the 2026 handbook.
Enrolment rules
COREQUISITE: You must be enrolled in a Monash Master’s degree or the Graduate Certificate of Behaviour Change to undertake this unit.
Overview
Systemic change needs sustained, creative, future-oriented collaboration among diverse actors. Facilitation is fundamental to this. Effective facilitators build trust and relationships and enable productive sharing, quality decision-making or dynamic innovation with groups. This unit expands on the essential ways of thinking and doing to be an effective, reflexive practitioner and facilitator of systemic change at a scale relevant to you and your current or future context.
The unit will build your critical awareness of leading theories of systemic change and system transformation. These come from diverse, often interdisciplinary and practice-led origins. You will become aware of the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, and deep dive into at least one. These theoretical foundations and deeper knowledge will inform and guide your systemic practice.
Common to most systemic change approaches is the need to convene diverse perspectives to set visions, goals or map future-oriented action pathways. You will be equipped with facilitation principles and collaboration design tools to enable you to creatively plan and run powerful, purposeful workshops, meetings and other gatherings to advance positive systemic change.
Offerings in 2026
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
| Second semester | Clayton | Online ev |
Assessment
- ReflectionWritten30%
- Critical evaluationWritten35%
- Verbal presentationPresentation35%
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Critically investigate how major schools of thought in systemic change seek to advance transformation;
- 2
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a systemic change approach in relation to a real-world complex challenge;
- 3
Reflexively position your own practice, specific change projects, and emerging concepts in relation to current thinking on systemic change;
- 4
Describe principles of facilitation and collaboration design for systemic change processes;
- 5
Creatively design, convincingly present, and justify with theory, a facilitated process to enable future-oriented dialogue between diverse voices in relation to a complex challenge.
Workload and teaching
- Workshops36 hours
- Workshops24 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachOnline learning
- Teaching approachCase-based teaching
- Teaching approachSimulation or virtual practice
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
In total, you can expect to commit a total of ~144 hours of work across the teaching period.
On-campus
- One 3-hour workshop and
- Nine hours of independent study per week.
Online
- One 2-hour workshop and
- Ten hours of independent study per week
The reason for this discrepancy is that the on campus offering will dedicate more time toward in-class reflective activities (for the Systemic practice journal), while the online offering will require you to complete this activity primarily in your own-time, to better suit the time constraints and flexibility needs of part time/professional students who are more likely to take the evening online stream. However, as online students, you will still have a dedicated opportunity in each week’s synchronous class to discuss, ask questions about, and receive support for these activities.
Throughout the unit, you will complete a variety of synchronous and asynchronous activities, and participate in interactive forums that will facilitate engagement with the learning material, and enable collaboration with other learners.
This unit will be enriched with a comprehensive set of reading materials, videos, and case scenarios prepared for independent online learning.
Theories, frameworks, methods and tools taught will be illustrated through real-life case scenarios.
Facilitation and collaboration require practice; simulations will be used as an active learning method to support the development of your facilitation capacity.
Throughout the unit, you will apply your learning to a variety of problems, contexts, and challenges.
Where it fits
BAS5515 is part of 1 area of study in the 2026 handbook.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Filia Garivaldis
- Unit Coordinators
- Mr David Robertson
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for BAS5515?
BAS5515 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is BAS5515 offered?
In 2026, BAS5515 runs in Semester 2 at Clayton.
How much work is BAS5515?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does BAS5515 have an exam?
No. BAS5515 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.
Which majors and minors include BAS5515?
BAS5515 is part of Leadership for sustainable development.