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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Globalisation, Cultural Diversity and Innovation
  • Unit Code

    CMM5110
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan STARCKEN

Description

The rapid development of communication technologies has had a profound effect on global communications, business, innovation, cultural convergence and leisure choices. This unit explores these changes with a view of raising awareness of how these factors can be used to help promote innovation in industry and society. Evolving new media, technology, political and economic factors will be discussed that impact on globalisation, as well as the social, cultural and historical factors that mediate the interpretation of emergent international trends.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss how technological developments have affected human praxis.
  2. Demonstrate an awareness of different cultural contexts and customs.
  3. Identify issues that have influenced key social and historical developments in diverse contexts.
  4. Provide a critique of globalization and its effects on cultural/social, political and economic issues.

Unit Content

  1. Globalisation and internationalisation.
  2. Technological, communication and new media influences on society and innovation.
  3. Key historical factors that have influenced cultural and societal developments.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is taught on campus and consists of a weekly three-hour seminar. A one-hour lecture will be followed by tutorials that may include debates, case studies, short student presentations, and class discussion.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Tutorial PresentationPresentation and Report50%
EssayEssay50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportReport50%
EssayEssay50%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Globalisation, Cultural Diversity and Innovation
  • Unit Code

    CMM5110
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan STARCKEN

Description

The rapid development of communication technologies has had a profound effect on global communications, business, innovation, cultural convergence and leisure choices. This unit explores these changes with a view of raising awareness of how these factors can be used to help promote innovation in industry and society. Evolving new media, technology, political and economic factors will be discussed that impact on globalisation, as well as the social, cultural and historical factors that mediate the interpretation of emergent international trends.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss how technological developments have affected human praxis.
  2. Demonstrate an awareness of different cultural contexts and customs.
  3. Identify issues that have influenced key social and historical developments in diverse contexts.
  4. Provide a critique of globalization and its effects on cultural/social, political and economic issues.

Unit Content

  1. Globalisation and internationalisation.
  2. Technological, communication and new media influences on society and innovation.
  3. Key historical factors that have influenced cultural and societal developments.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is taught on campus and consists of a weekly three-hour seminar. A one-hour lecture will be followed by tutorials that may include debates, case studies, short student presentations, and class discussion.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Tutorial PresentationPresentation and Report50%
EssayEssay50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportReport50%
EssayEssay50%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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