CHCH101-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Strengthening Communities through Social Innovation

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

Description

In this course, students will integrate up to 20 hours of hands-on community engagement projects (as a whole class and in small groups) related to the post-earthquake context of Christchurch with guided reflection and relevant academic content about post-disaster response, social innovation, and volunteerism. This will provide students with an overview of how individuals and organisations are strengthening communities in Christchurch through social innovation.

Join 750 other students who have taken CHCH101 in the past six years! During that time, students have contributed over 25,000 hours of service to more than 50 community organisations, government agencies, and individuals in Christchurch, Japan, Vanuatu, and the U.S. UC is the only place in the world to take this unique course that was inspired by the actions of the Student Volunteer Army following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 and focuses on the role of social innovation in strengthening communities. Students who have taken CHCH101 not only learn more about their local contexts, they learn a lot about themselves.

"Working alongside so many people from so many different communities in the course really inspired me in the sense that I could potentially use what I've learned in my business undergrad to help rebuild a city that now means so much to me" (CHCH101 student, 2015).

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of CHCH101, students will be able to:

1. Apply theory to critically analyse community engagement and social innovation
2. Engage in, and undertake structured reflection on, service and service learning
3. Engage with the employability and innovative attribute of the Graduate Profile
4. Design and present a personally relevant and evidence-based community project

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Engaged with the community

Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Billy O'Steen

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Healing Proposals 22 Aug 2018 50%
Reflections on Group Projects 17 Oct 2018 50%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $746.00

International fee $3,038.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 500

For further information see School of Educational Studies and Leadership .

All CHCH101 Occurrences

  • CHCH101-18S1 (C) Semester One 2018 - Not Offered
  • CHCH101-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018