QUT004 QUT You: Living and Working Collaboratively, Ethically, and Inclusively

Unit Outline: Semester 2 - 6 Week D 2025, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

We are living in an increasingly diverse, interconnected, and constantly evolving world. Understanding who we are and how our world view affects others is critical to our ability to work effectively with diverse teams and to make decisions that are good for everyone. Deliberative problem-solving and ethical decision-making are transferable skills that can be applied to our future studies, careers, and even our day-to-day lives. Through your active engagement in games, debates, and decision-making challenges drawn from a broad range of professional contexts, you will learn the knowledge and skills necessary to understand and resolve real world problems in ways that work for as many people as possible. The aim is to prepare you for life beyond university, both professionally and personally, so that you --our future leaders -- can shape a better world for us all.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Develop a creative solution to a challenge impacting your future profession.
2. Apply inclusive, ethical, and collaborative practices to solve real world problems.

Content

Learning Approaches

In this unit, you will learn through engaging in the following:

• Synchronous tutorials and Q&A sessions with leading experts
• High-quality and accessible content available through the unit’s Canvas site.
• Peer discussion and collaboration.
• Recap workshops to prepare for assessment.
• Authentic assessment tasks designed to support real-world application of unit content.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

In this unit, formative feedback will be provided by:

• leading experts in response to individual student queries posted to an assessment Q&A forum 
• your peers during tutorial activities
• your tutors in a weekly assessment workshop
• your completion of automated online quizzes in the module for each week.

Summative feedback will be provided on your assessment response.

Assessment

Overview

In this unit, you will be introduced to complex problems that are relevant to a wide range of professional careers, together with a variety of viewpoints, concepts, and frameworks that will help you to understand and solve such problems both now and in the future. 

Your task is to choose one of the problem scenarios from those provided and produce a 1500-word written Project Report that:

1. describes your chosen problem and whom it affects,
2. identifies factors that contribute to its sustainment,
3. provides a substantive analysis that engages with at least two of the core concepts in the unit, 
4. proposes an ethical and inclusive solution to one or more of the contributing factors you have identified, and
5. concludes by explaining how your perspective on the problem developed over the course of this unit.

Unit Grading Scheme

S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Project Report

Produce a Report, either as a written report or a video presentation, that describes your chosen problem and those it affects. Explain how your perspective on the problem changed throughout the course of this unit with reference to key concepts that influenced your thinking. Propose a possible solution to help address or minimise the problem.   

This is an authentic assessment because you will be addressing real-world challenges that you may face in your future profession inspired by problems provided by real community stakeholders.  

The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the About Assignments page on Canvas for specific guidelines.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.

The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

There are confronting topics included in this unit and these may be distressing to some students. There are also communication risks associated with making comments on Canvas. These risks can be mitigated through the use of inclusive language and respect for human dignity; both are core elements of inclusive education.

Standards/Competencies

This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.

Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer

1: Knowledge and Skill Base

1. 
   Relates to: Project Report
2. 
   Relates to: Project Report

3: Professional and Personal Attributes

1. 
   Relates to: Project Report
2. 
   Relates to: Project Report
3. 
   Relates to: Project Report
4. 
   Relates to: Project Report

Course Learning Outcomes

OP45 Bachelor of Vision Science

1. Practice as an inclusive, collaborative and reflective professional with capacity to develop resilience, interprofessionalism, and commitment to sustainability goals.
   Relates to: Project Report