SoCIETIE Project

The SoCIETIE Project is your opportunity to engage in a real-world project that creates positive social impact. This could be through working with a community organisation, developing a social enterprise, conducting applied research on a social issue, or any other project that aligns with the themes of SoCIETIE.

Depending on your chosen pathway (Skills-Focus or Project-Focus), the SoCIETIE Project will vary in scope and depth between 20-80 hours of work. The work should be of direct value to the collaborating organisation or community, and the shareable artefact should reflect on and communicate your learning from this experience to a broad audience.

Shareable Artefact

PROMPT

Generate a critical or creative artefact that can be consumed in 6-8 minutes.

Let your imagination run wild!

VARIATIONS

LAWS4001 Students must explore a complex legal issue using themes from the course, or otherwise demonstrate a strong connection to a legal perspective in their Shareable Artefact. VCPG6001 Postgraduate students must base their portfolio within the scholarly/research literature when framing their Shareable Artefact, and relate their Shareable Artefact to their graduate program discipline.

Milestones

These formative tasks help to develop your final learning portfolio through formative feedback. You may choose to complete all or none of these optional tasks. For optional tasks, late submissions or extensions not permitted.

(Optional) Shareable Artefact Plan

SUBMISSION WINDOW - By Monday Week 7 (semesters) | Half-way through session (sessions)
WEIGHTING - AATD: Optional | LAWS: Up to 10%

(Required) Showcase

SUBMISSION WINDOW - During the last week (semester and sessions)
WEIGHTING - AATD: Complete/Incomplete | LAWS: Up to 10%

(Required) Sheraeble Artefact

SUBMISSION WINDOW - Last day of semester (semesters and sessions)
WEIGHTING - AATD: Complete/Incomplete | LAWS: Up to 100% of the final grade

(Optional) Shareable Artefact Plan

The Shareable Artefact Plan is an opportunity to plan and structure your final portfolio. It is a formative task that provides an opportunity to receive feedback on your ideas before you start creating the final piece.

Download

Download the Shareable Artefact Plan Template

There are a number of prompts that we routinely think about when preparing your Shareable Artefact. You are welcome to bring your plan to any class consultation session. Discussing with your peers is welcome.

See the Class Grading Structure for an overview of how this item will be valued (ie graded).

(Required) Showcase

An opportunity share your ideas with your peers and invited guests. This is a celebration of your learning through the semester, not a competition (although, healthy competition welcome!)

Bring a representation of your Shareable Artefact to share with others. This could be a draft, prototype, outline, storyboard, sketch, model, poster or any other representation that helps to communicate your ideas. You should develop a short elevator pitch (60 seconds) to help explain your work to others. It may be a final, close-to-final or work-in-progress presentation.

You will be given specific details about the showcase closer to the date.

See the Class Grading Structure for an overview of how this item will be assessed.

Shareable Artefact

This is the final, summative piece. You are encouraged to start working on this early!

Consider the SoCIETIE themes (social change, impact, engagement, transformation, inclusion and/or equity) or related problem/issue/idea that you have engaged with through your learning and experience in the course:

• produce a physical or digital artefact that can be consumed in 6-8 minutes (equivalent c.2,500 words)
• represent how your artefact connects to themes in SoCIETIE
• include a 250-500 word rationale that explains the purpose of the artefact, and how it connects to your learning in the course
• format is completely open-ended (see suggestions below)

Topic

CHOOSING A TOPIC

For Project-Focus students, the Shareable Artefact will typically be a deep exploration of your SoCIETIE Project. For Skills-Focus students, the Shareable Artefact will typically be a cross-cutting exploration of themes from the KNoTs you have completed.

The actual portfolio topic can be as free-ranging as you like. If you’re looking for inspiration, you could consider:

• focussing on a specific problem or contemporary issue relevant to your SoCIETIE Project, or SoCIETIE in general
• revisiting an issue in your discipline, but from a new perspective based on learning in the course
• extending your KNoT completion evidence into an holistic reflection/review/critique/expression/output
• drawing connections between topics in SoCIETIE, and themes from relevant tutorials, activities, group work and other courses
• expanding on your project (ie Doing KNoTs) within the course through a sharable artefact or output

Formats

The format of your Shareable Artefact is completely open-ended, provided that it allows you to meet the assignment prompt.

In the past, students have created artefacts in a variety of formats, including (but not limited to): an essay, paper, report poster, digital presentation, app, video, website, podcast, blog series, magazine article, scholarly work, travel guide, exhibition, teaching tool, physical object, zine, artwork or demonstration.

Consider what format best suits your topic, audience and purpose. Create an artefact that is going to benefit your stakeholders and/or your learning. You are welcome to discuss your ideas at any time with the teaching team.

Include a Rationale!

Regardless of the format in your final portfolio, a small rationale or exegesis will help clarify the purpose of the portfolio, and orientate others to its purpose. This is especially relevant to creative pieces (recognising that all thought is creative, so it should help with all tasks..)

Often, the rationale will complement the form of the submission. For example, an artwork may be accompanied by a critique; a board game with a set of rules that explain the game play; a podcast with a website.

LAWS4001 students can use the rationale to further connect the course to their discipline.

Guidance on Referencing

The portfolio, and rationale, are academic pieces of work, and should be referenced according to the styles and conventions:

• relevant to your discipline (ie APA, Harvard, IEEE, etc)
• relevant to your format (ie, an online news article might be referenced differently to an essay)

Marking Criteria