Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Digital Disruption: Meeting the Challenges of our Digital Age
Credit Points: 12.00
Important Information:
In 2024, this course is titled 'Digital Technology and Globalisation'.
From 2025 this course is titled 'Digital Disruption: Meeting the Challenges of our Digital Age'.
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
HUSO2363 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
365H Global, Urban and Social Studies |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2025 |
Course Coordinator: Elizabeth Kath
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 5084
Course Coordinator Email: elizabeth.kath@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: B37. L5.
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
Digital technologies are disrupting and transforming every aspect of our lives, from global systems to personal interactions. In this course, you will explore the social and cultural implications of digital technologies and become familiar with seminal theories that help us to understand the digital world.
You will critically examine the wide-ranging challenges and opportunities that digital technology presents to societies, governments, organizations, cultures, and individuals. The course includes the development of essential digital literacies, empowering you to navigate the complex implications of current and emerging digital technologies.
Additionally, this course fosters critical thinking and ethical reflection, helping you approach digital technologies in a thoughtful, responsible manner. This includes guidance on academic integrity and the ethics of study and assessment in the age of AI. By the end of the course, you will have gained foundational intellectual tools and ethical perspectives that will equip you to engage with digital technologies constructively, both as a student and a global citizen.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
This course contributes to the following BP332 program learning outcomes:
- Navigate international complexity using disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge, practice and research.
- Problem solve collaboratively and adaptively using linguistic, intercultural and digital skills.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify keys issues digital technologies present for contemporary societies, cultures, governments, organisations, and individuals.
- Apply ethical and other theoretical considerations or principles to digital technology use by societies, cultures, governments, organisations, and individuals, including as students.
- Describe fundamental digital skills and competencies you possess in relation to your responsibilities as a student and in your professional life.
Overview of Learning Activities
Delivery is a mix of online and face to face.
You will be engaged in learning that involves a range of activities in a variety of settings including online lectures, podcasts, group discussions, problem-solving exercises, and debates. A structured tutorial program is provided to give you the opportunity to explore global issues in greater depth through active participation in small group discussions and collaborative activities.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT student website.
Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and your development against the program learning outcomes.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: 24-Hour Digital Reflection, 20%, CLO1, CLO2 and CLO3
Assessment Task 2: Class Debate, 50%, CLO1 and CLO2
Assessment Task 3: Learning Journal, 30%, CLO1, CLO2 and CLO3
Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.