Faculty of Arts in Open Classrooms
Open Classrooms is a joint initiative of the Office of the Provost and the Teaching and Learning Innovation delivered together with the Faculties. The initiative makes exemplary LMS sites available to the University’s teaching community. It gives staff an opportunity to experience teaching in action across the University, from the perspective of a student. The subjects’ LMS copies are also accompanied by guided review activities, which serve as a valuable opportunity for reflection and professional development. In line with the University’s Framework for Educational Excellence, Open Classrooms fosters a culture of sharing and continuous improvement across the faculties.
Open Classrooms spotlights three Faculty of Arts subjects and their LMS sites developed in partnership with the Arts Teaching Innovation. MULT20010 / MULT30019 Internship: Personal and Career Growth, FREN20025 / FREN30026 Global Francophone Cities and PPMN90056 Business and Government serve as inspiring examples of student-centred learning and evidence-based curriculum design.
Internship: Personal and Career Growth
MULT20010 / MULT30019 Internship: Personal and Career Growth is an undergraduate Work Integrated Learning (WIL) subject, available to all Bachelor of Arts students as an elective. The subject gives students the opportunity to complete up to 100 hours of self-sourced placement. The subject’s academic component helps students to take the full advantage of their internship learnings and use them as a powerful experience informing their transition to futures beyond the University. Open Classrooms highlights how the subject provides students with guidance and support inside and outside the classroom through peer group consultations and other key features of the subject’s design.
To learn more, step into the subject in Open Classrooms and watch the video below, in which the subject coordinator, Dr Elena Balcaite, and students, Ibuki, Eva and Callum, discuss the subject’s key features.
Global Francophone Cities
FREN20025 / FREN30026 Global Francophone Cities is an undergraduate French Studies subject, available at level two and three. The subject combines advanced French language study with interdisciplinary perspectives from Urban Studies and Globalised City Studies. Through this lens, students explore Fort-de-France in Martinique, Nouméa in New Caledonia, Algiers in Algeria, and Montreal in Quebec and examine how the urban environment of these cities is shaped by colonial legacies, migration, religion and language.
Open Classrooms commends the subject as a well-designed and engaging learning experience. To learn more, explore the subject in Open Classrooms and watch the video below in which the subject coordinator, Dr Antonia Wimbush, explains its learning outcomes, clear LMS structure, effective scaffolding of assessments and diversity of interactive learning activities.
Business and Government
PPMN90056 Business and Government is an elective in the Master of Public Policy and Management. In this subject, students work through real-world policy and regulatory concerns in business-government relationships. The subject adopts a flipped learning approach to give students the flexibility to learn at their own pace and offer diverse content and learning resources.
Open Classrooms commends the subject as an example of evidence-based and inclusive teaching practice. To learn more, explore the subject in Open Classrooms and watch the video below in which Associate Professor Kate Macdonald, the subject coordinator, together with the team behind the subject’s design, explains its pedagogical rationale and practical approach. The subject is also featured in this ATI showcase as an example of effective flipped learning design.