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Humanitarian Construction (ABPL90277)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2023
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Overview
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Our planet faces significant challenges from global climate change, increasing natural disasters, urbanisation, population growth, intra-state conflict and poverty. The response to these challenges is largely implemented by the humanitarian sector. Within this sector, the provision of built environment facilities (e.g. schools, hospitals, shelter, water and sanitation, infrastructure etc) is critical. Such facilities are often implemented in complex and challenging contexts which extend the skills of those built environment professionals responsible for delivering them. This subject investigates the role of built environment professionals (architects, construction managers, builders, planners and engineers) in the humanitarian sector. The topics covered include the global and regional humanitarian sector, the role of the built environment in the humanitarian sector, development/ compromised market/ post-disaster / post-conflict reconstruction contexts, stakeholder equity and participation, monitoring and evaluation, building community capital and resilience, and pathways to working in the humanitarian sector
This subject may involve a number of field trips to the University of Melbourne's Dookie and/or Creswick campus.
Intended learning outcomes
- To understand the humanitarian sector;
- To understand the role of the built environment within the humanitarian sector;
- To appreciate the complexity of delivery of built environment infrastructure in the humanitarian context;
- To understand how the built environment can contribute toward community capital and resilience;
- To identify pathways to working in the humanitarian sector including participatory practices, transdisciplinary modes of working and risk management.
Generic skills
- Interdisciplinary communication and collaboration;
- Applied learning to context specific challenges
- Build on technical design and construction skills
- Critical thinking and analysis through reading, discussion, essay writing and presentation and assessment of arguments
- Communicating knowledge intelligibly and economically, in written and oral form through essays, discussion and class presentations
- Selection and critique of humanitarian construction case studies
Last updated: 10 November 2023
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Students must meet one of the following prerequisite options:
Option 1
Admission into a course at the Melbourne School of Design (including double Masters)
AND
Completion of a minimum of 50 credit points of study at graduate level
Option 2
Approval from the subject coordinator.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
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: 10 November 2023
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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One scenario-based group assignment to the equivalent of 3000 words per student
| End of the teaching period | 60% |
One individual assignment to the equivalent of 2000 words due two weeks after the final instruction day.
| 2 Weeks after the end of teaching | 40% |
Last updated: 10 November 2023
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
Not available in 2023
Time commitment details
170 Hours This subject may involve a number of field trips to the University of Melbourne's Dookie and/or Creswick campus.
Additional delivery details
This is a quota subject.
Quota=90
Selection Criteria: This subject has an automated quota. Your enrolment confirms your space in this subject. If you choose to withdraw from this subject you will be forfeiting your space and may be unable to enrol again. Please check the Handbook for more information.
For detailed information on the quota subject application process and due dates, refer to the EDSC Quota Subjects webpage: http://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/quota-subjects.
Last updated: 10 November 2023
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 10 November 2023