Examples in practice
Incorporating international and/or intercultural perspectives
Examples demonstrate ways that international and/or intercultural perspectives have been incorporated into subjects that might not be inherently international or intercultural in nature; for example, by revising content, incorporating site visits, or by including international resources.
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Information security and privacy
This subject explores different notions of privacy across cultures, provides diverse perspective and challenges student understanding of what is perceived as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.
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Field trip to Science Gallery Melbourne
This field trip is designed to elicit a deeper understanding of professional practice through a shared experience in a creative cultural environment and intellectual context.
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Our Planet, Our Health
The structure of this subject provides an opportunity for interaction between diverse student groups and guest speakers from a wide range of fields and backgrounds provide diverse intercultural perspectives.
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Food safety & quality
Students explore global perspectives on food safety and quality through a series of guest speaker videos and a collaborative project on an internationally recognised food safety management system.
Facilitating interaction between diverse student groups
These examples showcase various ways that student interaction has been purposefully incorporated into curricula. Most examples come from subjects across the University of Melbourne.
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Fostering student interaction in class (video)
In this video three academics from different disciplines discuss why it is important to foster student interaction in class and what teaching and learning activities can support and encourage interaction.
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Facilitating multicultural groupwork (video)
This video looks at the benefits of setting the stage for effective group work and importance of purposefully mixing groups.
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Field trip to Science Gallery Melbourne
This field trip is designed to elicit a deeper understanding of professional practice through a shared experience in a creative cultural environment and intellectual context.
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IT project and change management
This example shows how interaction between diverse student groups can be facilitated at different stages of the subject.
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Creating innovative engineering
An example of a subject with an industry-linked group task that necessitates comprehensive, purposeful interaction between the students over the course of the semester.
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Our Planet, Our Health
The structure of this subject provides an opportunity for interaction between diverse student groups and guest speakers from a wide range of fields and backgrounds provide diverse intercultural perspectives.
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Food safety & quality
Students explore global perspectives on food safety and quality through a series of guest speaker videos and a collaborative project on an internationally recognised food safety management system.
Designing subjects with an international or intercultural focus
This category includes examples of subjects that are focused on international or intercultural topics. In addition to the table found on the respective strategy page, the examples here also incorporate one or more of the other strategies.
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Purdue international capstone
This international, final-year undergraduate capstone project brings together students from different institutions.
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Global business practicum
A Work Integrated Learning opportunity that takes small groups of students to one of two selected destinations, matching them with real companies and solving real-world problems.
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Audiology practice in the global context
This subject provides final year Masters' of Clinical Audiology students with international experiential learning opportunities through which they work collaboratively and engage with international and local organisations.
Providing experiential learning experiences either within Australia or internationally
These examples showcase ways that educators have incorporated experiential learning, either as the main focus of a program or as an individual opportunity within a subject.
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International literacy project
A co-curricular opportunity for student teachers to connect with schools (internationally) in an experiential learning that promotes literacy through storytelling.
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Purdue international capstone
This international, final-year undergraduate capstone project brings together students from different institutions.
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Global business practicum
A Work Integrated Learning opportunity that takes small groups of students to one of two selected destinations, matching them with real companies and solving real-world problems.
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Field trip to Science Gallery Melbourne
This field trip is designed to elicit a deeper understanding of professional practice through a shared experience in a creative cultural environment and intellectual context.
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Creating innovative engineering
An example of a subject with an industry-linked group task that necessitates comprehensive, purposeful interaction between the students over the course of the semester.
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Audiology practice in the global context
This subject provides final year Masters' of Clinical Audiology students with international experiential learning opportunities through which they work collaboratively and engage with international and local organisations.