APG5170 · Social entrepreneurship challenge in the Indo-Pacific

Overview

The Social Entrepreneurship Challenge in the Indo-Pacific (SECIP) Program is a two-week virtual, experiential initiative that gives you hands-on experience in establishing a social enterprise or solution that can have immediate social impact. Delivered with partner universities around the Indo-Pacific, you are placed into cross-cultural, interdisciplinary teams to undertake in an intensive model incubator program. Based on the principles of design-thinking, frugal innovation and rapid prototyping, the program focuses on creating tangible solutions to pressing local, regional and global challenges in sustainable ways. Over the course of the program, you attend in-depth panel discussions to learn from leaders in the business, government and non government sector, participate in the hands-on skills bazaars, and work with leading industry mentors from around the world to better understand contemporary challenges, develop and test their ideas and assumptions, and then make, break and re-create solutions. Delivered entirely online, the SECIP program prepares you for a rapidly changing contemporary workplace. Through the program, you develop the skills to effectively operate and engage in virtual teams made up of colleagues and partners based around our region. In joining this unit, you will be required to complete a series of Moodle lessons prior to the intensive program. You have two weeks to complete the lessons, all of which provide an introduction to the key topics and frameworks that will be used throughout the program. Then, over two weeks you are required to participate in daily seminars, workshops, skill development sessions, mentor and teamwork sessions to develop your social enterprise or innovation idea. You then have two weeks to complete the team and individual assessment tasks.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Critically analyse key concepts and theories that underpin social entrepreneurship, innovation and design;
2. Apply theoretical knowledge to real-world examples of social entrepreneurship, innovation and design
3. Critically evaluate and reflect upon practical social innovation challenges and solutions within different cultural contexts;
4. Collaborate and communicate effectively in cross-cultural, interdisciplinary teams using a variety platforms;
5. Design and pitch a social innovation idea.

Workload

This unit requires an equivalent of 144 contact hours including assessment tasks and in-country program activities. This is a guided study tour, however you will be required to attend a compulsory on-campus session prior to departure.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.