Innovation, Design, and Society (ANTH30019)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5Online
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Overview
| Availability | August - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
What makes innovation successful? How are innovative products or processes able to capture our imagination and desires? Can technology offer sustainable solutions for a world on the brink of ecological and social catastrophes? What are the social costs of innovation? This subject allows students to explore first-hand the social dynamics that make innovation possible. In partnership with startups, companies, or public sector innovators, students will conduct hands-on research to understand how new technologies, including robots or apps, can help solve social or business challenges. Students who take this subject will be introduced to design-thinking and asked to transform their observations and critiques into advice for building new solutions. Through its participatory approach, this subject allows students to become active contributors in the design process and build their creativity and research skills in the job market.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Distinguish the social and cultural components that shape innovation and design
- Discuss how anthropologists have approached and researched innovation and design in academic and industry settings;
- Develop a critical sensibility towards the political and economic processes that frame innovation and design;
- Develop first-hand, practical knowledge of how innovative ideas can be implemented in practices;
- Design, manage, and execute research projects aimed at providing ethnographic insights for our partners;
- Communicate effectively in written and oral formats, collaborate in groups with people of diverse disciplinary and cultural backgrounds.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
ANTH10001 Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Proposal for Services (research project)
| Week 3 | 20% |
Research Journal (curated version)
| Week 5 | N/A |
Group Project Report and Presentation (equivalent of 1000-words).
| End of the teaching period | 50% |
Reflective Essay
| 3 Weeks after the end of teaching | 30% |
Hurdle requirement Hurdle requirement: Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 80% of seminars in order to pass this subject. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- August - Online
Coordinator Fabio Mattioli Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total of 30 contact hours: 1 x 3h workshop and 1x 2h seminar per week for 6 weeks. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 August 2021 to 10 September 2021 Last self-enrol date 10 August 2021 Census date 20 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 17 September 2021 Assessment period ends 17 October 2021 August contact information
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 3 November 2022