School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Cross-Cultural Knowledge and Global Citizenship
  • Unit Code

    SAH2100
  • Year

    2026
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Mark MCMAHON

Description

This unit is for students who are undertaking an international study tour to extend cultural awareness and build leadership skills. Students participate in a structured program at an overseas destination that provides them with authentic exposure to global and local industry and cultural contexts. Students will be required to reflect on their experience and extend it through their own research, situating their learning within their own discipline and future career goals to develop world readiness.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be scheduled in a variety of teaching periods depending on the tour and census dates. As an internationalised experience, tours may occur after hours, outside of regular semester dates or on weekends.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the concept of leadership generally and as it pertains to their discipline in an international setting.
  2. Use digital social environments effectively and ethically to create and publish media, communicate ideas and reflect on learning.
  3. Evaluate international experiences to identify contextually relevant characteristics and situate them within a framework of global industry practice.
  4. Undertake and communicate research that extends beyond personal experience and demonstrates conventions and protocols of their discipline.

Unit Content

  1. Theories of leadership within a global context and its application to diverse settings.
  2. The social, cultural, and industry practices of a specific international destination.
  3. Social media ethics, tools and techniques.
  4. Skills for self-directed research and reflective learning.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Participation in an intensive study tour to a country or region. The study tour may include lectures, briefings, group workshops, presentations and industry site visits depending on the study tour.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationParticipation in Study Tour activities30%
JournalReflective log of international experience30%
EssayDisciplinary Research40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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