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Engaging Australia and the Asia-Pacific
Undergraduate | GRF-GBS105 | 2023
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed,
- No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Engaging Australia and the Asia-Pacific
About this subject
After successfully completing this subject you should be able to:
- Critically evaluate Australia's First Peoples' histories, contemporary enterprises and trade of First Peoples across Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
- Identify, understand and apply the cultural competencies appropriate for business relationships with Australia's First Peoples, and the Asia-Pacific region.
- Critically analyse past and contemporary threats that impact enterprise and trade between Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
- Describe how meaningful business relations can be enhanced in Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
Assurance of Learning:
- This course evaluates student performance for Assurance of Learning purposes for the program learning objective (Dip Bus PLO 3): Apply Australia's First Peoples' perspectives to contemporary business contexts.
- This course evaluates student performance for Assurance of Learning purposes for the program learning objective (UG Bus PLO 3): Discuss how to integrate Australia's First Peoples' perspectives in contemporary business contexts.
- Australia's Region: The Asia Pacific
- Australian history and culture
- The impact of government policies
- Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific region
- Australia's Regional Trade
- Southeast Asia
- Northeast Asia
- The Pacific
- Diplomacy, security & aid
- Culture & cultural identity
- Building connections
- Building back better
The world has become increasingly interconnected as a result of increased trade, communication and cultural exchange. This interconnection, or globalisation, creates a need for you to develop intercultural, knowledge, understanding and competence. In this course you will explore Australia's place in the Asia-Pacific region with its accompanying strong cultural ties to the history of Australia's First Peoples and the Western world. You will examine the influences of the past, contemporary issues and possibilities for the future. This course is designed to commence your professional learning about the cultural protocols and knowledge required when engaging in cross-cultural relationships within Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region.
Students should not enrol in this subject if they have completed 1005GBS Engaging Australia and the Asia-Pacific at Griffith University.
- 3 minute presentation (30%)
- 500-word Sustainable Development poster (30%)
- 1000 word critical reflection (40%)
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