BEX3300 · Business and design

Overview

This unit is a multi-disciplinary unit that aims to build on your knowledge of business and/or design but with a focus on how you can use decision making frameworks to tackle difficult business and design problems. The unit provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate being critical and creative scholars and responsible and effective global citizens, and gain an understanding of multi-disciplinary decision-making in organisations. You will have the opportunity to address some difficult problems facing society and use frameworks from business and design to solve such a problem. You will develop and demonstrate your career-readiness in this unit.

Offerings

Assessment

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

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. connect design and business learning in a unique confluence of hybrid skills
2. develop transferable abilities in leadership, collaboration, communication and negotiation
3. develop reflective and responsible design and business practices
4. confidently approach complex challenges using design and business tools and mindsets to resolve them
5. understand the application of design and business skills across a broad range of global, social, economic and personal challenges
6. nurture a creative, informed, speculative and future-focused approach to problem solving.

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. 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.

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