School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Strategies for Social Change
  • Unit Code

    YWK3231
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr John Matthew SUTCLIFFE

Description

In this unit students explore different strategies that have been used to bring about social change. Historical perspectives are used to compare and contrast various strategies that have been used in different political and social circumstances. The materials examine the role of young people in social change and the extent to which youth workers should become involved in supporting young people in this role. There are opportunities to examine a variety of forms of activism including how youth workers can work within their own organisations to ensure the organisations remain relevant to young people's needs.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed either YWK1101 or YWK1220.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded YWK3230.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the concept of social change and discuss the role of young people in bringing about change in Australia and elsewhere.
  2. Collaborate with others to identify the strategies used by activists in Australian and international social movements and analyse the reasons for success or failure in different campaigns.
  3. Identify and analyse the practical and ethical considerations for youth workers when working with young people who want to bring about social change.
  4. Develop a researched change plan in response to a contemporary social issue or organisational deficiency, using a systems approach

Unit Content

  1. Australian and international social movements and the role of young people.
  2. Youth work and social activism –purposes and strategies.
  3. Social change, concepts of an ideal society, and the relationship between individual change and societal change.
  4. Ethical questions about the use of violence, humiliation, or deception to achieve change
  5. Strategies for change in youth work organisations to ensure that they remain relevant.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
Case StudyCase study –with team work and individual components60%
TestA short essay open book test on application of concepts taught across the unit40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase study –with team work and individual components60%
TestA short essay open book test on application of concepts taught across the unit40%

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.

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. 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, 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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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Strategies for Social Change
  • Unit Code

    YWK3231
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr John Matthew SUTCLIFFE

Description

In this unit students explore different strategies that have been used to bring about social change. Historical perspectives are used to compare and contrast various strategies that have been used in different political and social circumstances. The materials examine the role of young people in social change and the extent to which youth workers should become involved in supporting young people in this role. There are opportunities to examine a variety of forms of activism including how youth workers can work within their own organisations to ensure the organisations remain relevant to young people's needs.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed either YWK1101 or YWK1220.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded YWK3230.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the concept of social change and discuss the role of young people in bringing about change in Australia and elsewhere.
  2. Collaborate with others to identify the strategies used by activists in Australian and international social movements and analyse the reasons for success or failure in different campaigns.
  3. Identify and analyse the practical and ethical considerations for youth workers when working with young people who want to bring about social change.
  4. Develop a researched change plan in response to a contemporary social issue or organisational deficiency, using a systems approach

Unit Content

  1. Australian and international social movements and the role of young people.
  2. Youth work and social activism –purposes and strategies.
  3. Social change, concepts of an ideal society, and the relationship between individual change and societal change.
  4. Ethical questions about the use of violence, humiliation, or deception to achieve change
  5. Strategies for change in youth work organisations to ensure that they remain relevant.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
Case StudyCase study –with team work and individual components60%
TestA short essay open book test on application of concepts taught across the unit40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase study –with team work and individual components60%
TestA short essay open book test on application of concepts taught across the unit40%

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.

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. 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, 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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