Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2024-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2024-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in an undergraduate-level course.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Research design skills and practices which engages a real-world complex multidisciplinary subject/topic

2.

Demonstrate professional industry standard practices towards generating productive working relationships relevant to your career goals

3.

Demonstrate organisational practices towards managing a wide range of variables required for complex real world service-oriented projects

4.

Skilfully apply project management tools to ensure effective communicative practices with the project team

5.

Deliver disciplinary specific contributions into multidisciplinary project environments relevant to your career goals.

6.

Critically evaluate the effectiveness of your design thinking project in your chosen subject matter and field of work.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

In this unit students will: engage in researching design thinking tools and practices through the use of established case studies and existing projects. Students will work in cross disciplinary teams to explore complex issues using co-design methods and adopt team member roles for effectively managing a large simulated project. Students will explore a variety of methods for thinking about complicated and multifaceted scenarios.

The unit will primarily introduce design thinking methods and then students will use those tools to explore outcomes for a range of simulated projects. This unit will introduce students to industry common problems that will be representative of the complexities involved in engaging in multifaceted projects.