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Unit description

Provides collaborative principles to inform an understanding of sustainable social innovation. Identifies social entrepreneurs in Australian Aboriginal contexts and describes methods for ethically shaping business enterprise and development agendas that improve community outcomes and sustain Indigenous lifeways.  

Unit content

Topic 1: Social Enterprise Principles
Topic 2: Aboriginal Community Enterprise
Topic 3: Co Design and Social Enterprise
Topic 4: Social Enterprise Case Studies
Topic 5: Values and Social Enterprise

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:GA1GA2GA3GA4GA5GA6GA7
1summarise the theoretical basis, practical principles and examples of best practice in social enterprise development Ethical practiceKnowledge of a discipline
2interpret the similarities and differences between Indigenous community practices and the frameworks for social enterprise development Ethical practiceCultural competence
3critique the significance of social ethics, shared principles and personal values in establishing and sustaining social enterprise. Intellectual rigourEthical practice

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. summarise the theoretical basis, practical principles and examples of best practice in social enterprise development
    • GA3: Ethical practice
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
  2. interpret the similarities and differences between Indigenous community practices and the frameworks for social enterprise development
    • GA3: Ethical practice
    • GA7: Cultural competence
  3. critique the significance of social ethics, shared principles and personal values in establishing and sustaining social enterprise.
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
    • GA3: Ethical practice

Prescribed texts

  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed texts may change in future study periods.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method
Structured online learning 2 hours/week (12 weeks)
Assessment
Annotated bibliography30%
Essay50%
Journal20%
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