The common unit choices
All students must do CUC107 but you can choose between CUC100 or CUC106 depending on the discipline you are studying in and your learning preference. See the factsheet for a comparison of the units to help you make your choice or read through the unit descriptions below.
- CUC100
- CUC106
- CUC107
Academic Literacies
CUC100 Unit Information (pdf 166kb)
Overview
CUC100 aims to help undergraduate students in any area of higher education reflect on the value and requirements of university study and to ensure that they have a good foundation in the various types of "academic literacies" that will help them succeed in this study and later in life.
Unit Objectives
The specific aims of the unit are as follows:
- to enable students to develop skills in reading, writing, and critical evaluation
- to strengthen students' information literacy in regard to their ability to identify, access, evaluate, organise and communicate information
- to ensure that students are able to make use of commonly required computer skills, such as word processing, internet, email and the university's online learning environment, Learnline, and creating visual presentations and spreadsheets
- to help students appreciate different ways of knowing, particularly the critical evaluation favoured by western academia
- to provide students with the opportunity to learn in a variety of modes in a variety of ways
- to provide students with the opportunity to become familiar with university culture, particularly the culture of Charles Darwin University
Availability: when units will be offered and in what mode (internal, external and/or online)
Class times: when classes are offered during the current semester, helping you to plan your timetable.
Coordinator
Elizabeth Foggo
Tel: (08) 8946 6393
email: elizabeth.foggo@cdu.edu.au
Design & Innovation: Communicating technology
CUC106 Unit Information (pdf 65kb)
Overview
This common unit is an alternative academic skills unit to CUC100. It provides students with the opportunity to learn about design innovation, sustainable community development, team work and communication whilst contributing towards real world development projects.
Students work in multidisciplinary teams to design solutions for projects ranging from water supply and quality to sanitation, health and education programs, and other infrastructure developments. Developing creative solutions and building prototypes is a major focus in this unit. The other component, academic literacy and graduate skills, is approached in the context of project management, teamwork, researching, reading and communicating in writing and orally about the design project.
Unit Objectives
Successful completion of this unit should enable students to:
- Integrate key environmental, technical, economic and cultural considerations in the creation of a sustainable design for resource poor contexts.
- Utilise creative and innovative problem solving techniques in design
- Build and evaluate a design prototype in response to a real-world problem
- Effectively work in a team to organise and complete a design brief and report
- Present the outcomes of the design project through a professional, written technical report and a formal oral presentation
- Demonstrate in a written report and oral presentation, effective researching, reading, critical thinking and analysis, and referencing skills.
- Demonstrate professional IT communication skills
- Address diversity through the key graduate skills: harmonious leadership, social responsibility, communication, creativity, and flexibility.
Availability: when units will be offered and in what mode (internal, external and/or online)
Class times: when classes are offered during the current semester, helping you to plan your timetable.
Coordinator
Micah Thorbjornsen
Tel: (08) 8946 6508
email: micah.thorbjornsen@cdu.edu.au
Cultural Intelligence and Capability
CUC107 Unit Information (pdf 166kb)
Overview
CUC107 Cultural Intelligence and Capability explores important issues related to living, studying and working as a professional in the diverse social and cultural environments of contemporary society. The unit examines broad interactions between culture, knowledge experience and behaviour and the way in which these interactions and our perceptions of culture shape our interactions at a personal, academic and professional level.
It explores the notion of cultural intelligence and the need for people to be capable of identifying and analysing the complex cultural dynamics of their interpersonal, academic and professional interactions and developing places for people to operate safely and successfully. The study program for this unit provides a structure for students to reflect upon, analyse and articulate how they respond to the complex cultural circumstances into which they are immersed as a student and as a graduate in the future.
Unit Objectives
On the completion of the unit, it is expected that students will have developed the ability to:
- Use a variety of media to demonstrate their understanding of themselves as multidimensional cultural beings in society;
- Analyse the interactions between themselves and others in a variety of cultuarl contexts;
- Analyse and evaluate startegies for creating culturally safe spaces in divers social, academic and professional enironments;
- Identify, evaluate, organise and communicate information using contemporary technologies.
Availability: when units will be offered and in what mode (internal, external and/or online)
Class times: when classes are offered during the current semester, helping you to plan your timetable.
Coordinator
Jaimee Hamilton
Tel: (08) 8946 6278
email: jaimee.hamilton@cdu.edu.au
