ATS3253 · Leadership and change in politics, philosophy and economics

Overview

In your final year of the PPE degree, you will apply your newly-aquired skills and knowledge to real-world problems. This experiential learning-based unit focuses on the issue of inequality: where does it come from, how can we measure it, and what – if anything – should we do about it? Drawing on your own and staff members’ networks, and interacting with stakeholders and actors beyond the classroom, will challenge you to identify and define a problem related to inequality; and, as an emerging leader, to use the concepts and skills learned during your PPE degree to develop a creative policy proposal to effect positive change. Following the completion of this capstone unit, you will leave Monash able to demonstrate aptitude in core workplace skills desired by employers.

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. utilise skills and knowledge across the fields of philosophy, politics and economics to identify a real-world problem related to inequality;
2. work collaboratively with peers and stakeholders within and beyond the classroom to develop a suitable policy solution to an identified problem;
3. write persuasively about the identified issue and possible solutions using knowledge and analytical techniques derived from the PPE degree;
4. effectively communicate research findings in verbal and visual forms in order to refine policy solutions following constructive criticism from staff and peers;
5. evaluate and apply the ideas of a major thinker in the fields of politics, philosophy or economics;
6. apply core workplace skills of collaborative leadership, reasoning, creativity and complex problem-solving desired by employers;
7. demonstrate aptitude in core workplace skills desired by employers.

Workload

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. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. 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.