Building Sustainable Design Practices
HDSD672Z
Overview
To enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into a course from the provider.
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Level of study: What does Postgraduate mean?
Postgraduate
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
No
Duration:
13 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$2,300.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$2,525.00 (AUD)
Description
The aim of this unit is to provide you with the tools and knowledge to embed sustainability into your design firm work environments and entrepreneurial practices.
Enrolment Restriction
In order to enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into one of the following courses:
If you wish to seek approval to enrol in this unit without being accepted in a course, please contact OUA regarding the process.
Assessment
- Assignment 1 — Sustainability Business Model (25%)
- Assignment 2 — Sustainable Business Plan (50%)
- Online Discussion — Weekly concept blog (25%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- evaluate their own current practices as 'sustainability practitioners' and propose improvements
- develop a holistic approach to the sustainability of their design business practices
- identify and select appropriate business models that lead to social, environmental, economic and cultural sustainability
- design, construct and communicate an effective sustainable business plan in the design field.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Engaging in a reflective design practice |
| 2 | Methods and Heuristics: SEED Heuristic of social, economic, environmental and design impact |
| 3 | What are sustainable design business models? |
| 4 | What is sustainable design marketing? |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Instructional Methods
- Blogs
- Chat rooms
- Discussion Forum/Discussion Board
- Embedded Multimedia
- Interactive Games
- Online Quizzes/Tests
- Online assignment submission
- Podcasting/Lecture capture
- Standard Media
- Streaming Multimedia
- Web links
- Wikis
Textbook information for this unit is currently being updated and will be available soon. Please check back regularly for updates. Alternatively, visit the Unibooks website and enter the unit details to search for available textbooks.
Relevant Courses
This unit is part of a major, minor, stream or specialisation in the following courses:
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
