Fiji

BEX3723/BEX5723

Sustainable business and governance challenges - Changing the future

Fiji, 8 – 20 July 2024

About this program

This future-oriented, intensive unit is offered in collaboration with Monash Business School, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (UNESCAP), Sydney-based research firm Incept Labs and professional body IPA. Students will be provided an interdisciplinary space to undertake a facilitated Sustainable Futures Challenge through a two-week intensive program that aims to develop essential skills to meet future global social, economic and environmental challenges.

A focus is placed on exploring real-world sustainability and public governance challenges in Fiji. In multidisciplinary teams, students collaborate across a cohort of their peers, working together with a client, undertaking their own independent research, creating their own stakeholder analyses, interrogating scenarios and alternatives and deriving holistic solutions against real-world, complex sustainability problems facing the country.

This unit focuses on developing skills including self-management, leadership, analytical and critical mindsets, engaging with social, economic and environmental development issues and research, integrated problem solving, dealing with uncertainty, policy critique and development, communication and coordination.

Applications

17 March 2024

Decision date

27 March 2024

Start date

08 July 2024

End date

20 July 2024

Program cost

Program cost: Approximately $1000 AUD - the exact program fee will be finalised soon.

Program fee includes:

• Twin-share accommodation (single rooms may be available for an additional fee)
• Some meals
• Welcome and farewell functions
• Transportation for the academic program and site visits
• Travel insurance

Program fee DOES NOT INCLUDE:

• Airfares and transfers (estimated at $1200 AUD)
• Monash University tuition fees for 6 credit points of study
• Visa costs (if applicable)
• Any expenses incurred during free time
• Meals not outlined in the itinerary

Eligibility

Undergraduate:

• A WAM of 60% or above
• Completed at least 72 credit points at the time of application
• Submission of a 200-word personal statement as part of your application addressing the following questions:

1. Why do you wish to take part in this program?
2. How will the program add value to your degree and/or future career aspirations?

Graduate:

• A WAM of 60% or above
• Completed at least 24 credit points at the time of application
• Submission of a 200-word personal statement as part of your application addressing the following questions:

Itinerary

The itinerary will be available soon.

Assessment and results

The program will be recognised as equivalent to 6 credit points of Monash study.

Assessment is 100% in-semester and may include: group presentations, a research essay on an agreed topic from the program; a reflective learning journal. You will receive a specific grade for the unit.

The final assessment for the unit will be due on 31 July 2024. The lead academic will provide further information.

Questions may be directed to the faculty via Monash Connect.

If you have any questions, please direct them to the faculty via Monash Connect.