BEX3260 Understanding megatrends
Faculty of Business and Economics
BEX3260 Understanding megatrends is a level 3, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Business and Economics. It isn't offered in 2025. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 2 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before BEX3260
Prohibitions
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After BEX3260
No unit lists BEX3260 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
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Overview
This unit comprehensively explores global megatrends and their profound impacts on industries, economies, and societies. In this unit, you will explore how broad, long-term forces such as technological innovation, demographic shifts, geopolitical changes, environmental sustainability, and public finance are reshaping our world.
The unit is designed to deepen your understanding of these significant trends, enhancing your ability to analyse, anticipate, and adapt to the dynamic global landscape. Whether you apply this knowledge to business strategy, public policy, or social entrepreneurship, this unit provides valuable perspectives beyond conventional textbook learning.
Upon completing the unit, you will have developed a theoretical understanding of megatrends and practical skills in strategic thinking and problem-solving. Through lectures, case studies, and interactions with experts who navigate these trends professionally, you will learn to: Identify and evaluate the drivers and implications of global megatrends. Consider innovative solutions and strategies for leveraging opportunities and overcoming challenges these trends present. Understand the intersection of technology, society, and environment in shaping future directions for various sectors.
This unit is ideal for students across all disciplines interested in understanding the forces shaping our planets future and society. It prepares you for diverse careers by providing skills in critical analysis, strategic thinking, and effective communication about complex global issues.
Offerings in 2025
The 2025 handbook lists no offerings for BEX3260.
Assessment
- Quiz / Test40%
- Written60%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
analyse:
- the nature and impact of global megatrends across various sectors
- factors that drive these megatrends
- 2
evaluate:
- the implications of megatrends for businesses and governments
- strategies for adapting to these changes in different industries
- the role of innovation in harnessing opportunities presented by megatrends
- challenges that organisations face when responding to global shifts
- 3
enhance:
- your ability to think critically and strategically about long-term global changes
- your communication skills, enabling you to effectively discuss and explain megatrends and their impacts
- your problem-solving skills, focusing on solutions that are informed by an understanding of significant global trends.
Workload and teaching
- Seminars36 hours
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
- Teaching approachCase-based teaching
- Teaching approachEnquiry-based learning
- Teaching approachActive 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. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. You are expected to complete all pre-class activities prior to your scheduled class, and post-class activities should be completed after your scheduled class. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed, peer directed and online engagement activities.
This unit includes problem-based learning approaches, where you engage in research, integrate theory and practice and apply knowledge and skills to develop viable solutions in response to a problem or set of problems.
This unit includes case-based teaching, where you apply your knowledge and engage in analytical and reflective thinking to solve complex contextual scenarios. Activities are often designed so that there is not one clear answer, but you need to work together to examine, analyse and make decisions to resolve the situation.
This unit engages you in enquiry-based learning, where you will be encouraged to use your own knowledge to develop and engage in a process of enquiry, study and research to identify areas to be investigated and an approach to doing so.
This unit engages you in actively applying your knowledge, skills and attributes in interactive, collaborative and reflective activities.
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for BEX3260?
BEX3260 has no prerequisites.
When is BEX3260 offered?
BEX3260 has no offerings listed in the 2025 handbook.
How much work is BEX3260?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does BEX3260 have an exam?
No. BEX3260 has 2 assessment tasks and no exam.