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CRA200 - Interdisciplinary Project

2026

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Creative Arts

Credit Points

Equivalent Units

Prerequisites

Must have passed 80 credit points

Incompatible

Coerequisites

Assumed Knowledge

Unit Description

What issues are you passionate about? What issues compel you to action, working with others, to make a difference in the world?

This unit invites students from the arts and across disciplines to investigate issues involving change and sustainability through a creative and collaborative lens.

If you're an environmental scientist, how might an artist's eye magnify documentation of work in the field? If you're a filmmaker or a musician, how might you use your creative practice to address complex health issues? Would your team benefit from further collaboration with an engineer, a lawyer, a project manager or an economist? Develop your skills to work successfully in interdisciplinary teams to maximise the reach and impact of your projects. Discover the critical role of creatives to connect and communicate with a wide variety of audiences on local and global issues.

This unit is for those seeking to investigate critical discourses on challenging topics, such as the climate crisis, environmental change, community health and wellbeing, incarceration of First Nations and refugee peoples, humanitarian and disaster management, through collaborative and creative thinking and creative practices. The unit is project-driven from topics of interest to the student group. Working in interdisciplinary teams, students respond to a relevant issue to communicate, advocate and activate others and/or to investigate, develop and manage sustainable solutions.

This unit prepares students to remain open to new possibilities when working in environments that are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.

Important Information

Note: Students must participate in scheduled classes (in-person or online synchronous classes) for discussion and collaboration to occur.

Internal students must participate in scheduled classes and present their projects at the end of the semester at the Casuarina campus.

External students must participate in scheduled online synchronous classes and present their projects at the end of the semester online.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Demonstrate advanced listening and communication, collaboration and project management skills to work professionally as a member of a team, applying safe, sustainable, ethical and inclusive practices.
2.	Investigate research areas, using the strengths of the team, and formulate and adapt to new work processes to facilitate interdisciplinary teamwork.
3.	Experiment with, reflect on and select creative and interdisciplinary frameworks and processes to seek solutions to issues relating to change and sustainability.
4.	Design and present innovative and creative responses and solutions to complex issues of change and sustainability, communicating ideas with impact.
5.	Review and debate the creative presentations responding to issues of change and sustainability in the context of feedback and reflection.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Online discussion (300 words)	10%	2,3,5
2.	Project pitch (500 words or equivalent)	15%	1,2,4
3.	Group project brief (800 words) and statement of individual contributions (200 words). Approx. 250 words per student.	20%	1,2,3
4.	Group project presentation (3200 words or equivalent in any media or approx. 800 words per student) and individual reflective statement (300 words).	55%	1,2,3,4,5
5.	Participation in class to engage in class discussion, peer review and feedback sessions (at least 80%)	0%	1,2,3,4,5

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2026	Semester 2	Internal	Casuarina Campus	OLS	View
2026	Semester 2	External	External Studies	OLR	View

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OL/OLS: Supplementary material will be provided on-line through Learnline. For more information about Learnline, please click here.

OLR: Internet access is required for this unit as students are required to access study materials provided on-line through Learnline. Please log into Learnline on the first day of each teaching period. For more information about Learnline, please click here.

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