APG5209 · Policy Studio: Collaboration for social policy

Overview

In this unit, you will gain experience in undertaking policy development activities that closely reflect the work undertaken in professional roles within and around government. This unit focuses on integrating citizen voice and lived experience into social policy design, drawing on approaches from participatory governance, deliberative democracy, design thinking, and qualitative policy analysis.

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

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Rigorously plan and execute initiatives to explore client experiences of current service provision and service gaps in the social policy area;
2. Conduct stakeholder mapping exercises with the purpose of ensuring representation of a diversity of voices in a policy forum;
3. Work effectively with others to design and conduct a deliberative forum where diverse viewpoints are heard and documented;
4. Facilitate a co-design activity where participants are encouraged to anticipate positive future outcomes and explore how they could be achieved;
5. Identify the skills and strategies routinely deployed by policy entrepreneurs and critically reflect on your current capabilities and areas where you could most effectively build your capabilities going forward.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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