COMM1000 | Summer Term 2022 | Assessment 2: Assessment information P 1/6 COMM1000 Creating Social Change Assessment 3: Social Change Pitch Report (40%) Assignment Instructions and Marking Criteria Due date: Friday 22 April, 11:59pm (Week 10) Submission details: Turnitin – see Moodle for link Word limit: 2000 words (+/- 10%) Purpose: The purpose of this assessment is to extend your analytic skills to critically evaluating real world social problems and their current solutions and developing your own proposal for a social change. Task Description In this assessment, you will creating a social change report as if you were submitting a proposal to a foundation from a large corporate entity wishing to expand their social impact projects. You will choose a UN Sustainable Development Goal: https://sdgs.un.org/goals to inform your proposal. You will select a specific social issue within that Sustainable Development Goal to explore creating a written report. For example, if your SDG is Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, you might create a proposal about telehealth access for people from migrant communities in Australia. You should aim to use concepts from the course such as wicked problems, systems thinking, the three sectors and the double diamond approach to analyse the problem and develop your proposal. In your report you will (word counts are a guide only): 1. Briefly describe the UN Sustainable Development Goal (200 words) 2. Describe the specific social issue, including critical analysis of current government policies and private and not-for-profit sector activities relevant to the issue (using a similar process to Assessment 1). (750 words) 3. Identify two key system-level barriers that persist related to the social issue. (300 words) 4. Develop a social change pitch suitable for a private sector foundation to fund that addresses these two barriers. (750 words) COMM1000 | Summer Term 2022 | Assessment 2: Assessment information P 2/6 For example, when considering “Telehealth access for people from migrant communities in Australia”, I would look at current state and federal health policies for access and use of telehealth, specifically related to aspects of interpreting services and technological access. I would also explore what private and not-for-profit sector activities were occurring, for example specific community groups and charities providing interpreting services or telehealth use training for consumers. I would investigate what some of the key barriers are, for example reductions to Medicare funding for some telehealth services, lack of support for clinicians in using interpreters over the phone, insufficient advertising of service availability to communities. I would choose two of these that could be translated into projects to be pitched for funding to a private sector foundation. If I chose supporting clinicians, I might propose a project that connected community groups, academics and providers to develop an evidence-based training program for doctors. If I chose advertising to specific communities, I might propose working with community groups to provide funding and media expertise to develop appropriate advertising materials. You will not be developing the change you are proposing, instead you will be pitching your plan for change, connecting it to the barriers you have identified in your research, your critical analysis, and to the UN Sustainable Development Goal (that is, describing why it is important). You do not need to include a budget, but instead you are gaining the foundation’s interest by demonstrating the significance of the issue, the benefits your proposed changes could have on the community, and whether an investment in the project could meaningfully effect change. COMM1000 | Summer Term 2022 | Assessment 2: Assessment information P 3/6 Use of evidence/research and referencing Your research for this assessment will draw on research papers and other academic sources, media, official reports, websites, documented personal accounts, or publications from relevant organisations, as well as materials, concepts and theory from the course. Referencing should follow the Harvard Referencing Guide under the Assessment Resources tab on Moodle. DO NOT refer to Wikipedia, blogs, unreferenced websites etc. DO NOT copy directly from any source unless you use quotation marks and full references. DO NOT paraphrase by changing the order of words in a sentence. Q&A Please feel free to post your assessment questions on the Question and Answer forum (Q&A) on Moodle. Feedback & marks Marks will be available on Moodle. Feedback is provided via the Review platform which can be accessed via https://unsw.review-edu.com/unsw/. Please reflect on feedback provided. Students are encouraged to book a consultation with their tutor for additional assistance. P 4/6 COMM1000 | Summer Term 2022 | Assessment 2: Assessment information Marking rubric Criterion 85%+ HD 75-84% D 65-74% C 50-64% P <50% F Description of UN SDG 10% Clearly explains UN SDG and explains why it is important. Explains UN SDG and explains why it is important. Describes UN SDG though some expansion needed. Describes UN SDG. Does not provide sufficient supporting explanation of UN SDG. Identification of social issue 15% Clearly explains specific social issue providing a sophisticated and succinct description that clearly demonstrates the link between the issue and SDG. Explains specific social issue providing a clear description that clearly demonstrates the link between the issue and SDG. Describes specific social issue providing a description that somewhat demonstrates the link between the issue and SDG, though some clarification or expansion is needed. Introduces specific social issue providing a description that attempts to demonstrate the link between the issue and SDG, though clarification or expansion is needed. Does not introduce a specific social issue or does not provide a description that attempts to demonstrate the link between the issue and SDG. Critical analysis of a specific social issue 25% Nuanced evaluation of current status and initiatives, clearly identifying two system-level barriers. Conclusions flow from logical interpretations of evidence. Insightful evaluation of current status and initiatives, identifying two system-level barriers. Conclusions flow from relevant evidence. Thoughtful evaluation of current status and initiatives, identifying two system-level barriers. Some conclusions flow from relevant evidence. Attempt at evaluation is mainly descriptive and demonstrates little systems or critical thinking. Minimal evidence integrated into arguments. Describes rather than evaluates, using no critical and systems thinking. P 5/6 COMM1000 | Summer Term 2022 | Assessment 2: Assessment information Social change proposal 30% The rationale for the social innovation demonstrates a nuanced understanding systems approaches to wicked social problems and flows logically from the critical analysis. The rationale for the social innovation draws on understanding of systems approaches to wicked social problems and generally connects well with the critical analysis. The rationale for the social innovation broadly invokes an understanding of systems approaches to wicked social problems and partly connects with the critical analysis. The rationale for the social innovation does not draw on an understanding of systems approaches and/or does not connect with the critical analysis. Insufficient attempt to design a social innovation. Source selection 10% Sources chosen are highly relevant to the topic; few, if any additional sources needed. Most sources chosen are relevant to the topic; may require a small amount of additional research. Some sources chosen are relevant to the topic; would need additional sources to complete research. Few sources chosen are relevant to the topic; requires significant additional research. No sources chosen are relevant to the topic; requires extensive additional research. Academic writing 5% Writes in appropriate academic style with excellent style and organisation of ideas. Writes in appropriate academic language with clarity of expression and good organisation of ideas. Writes using clear formal language though generally lacks good organisation of ideas. Writes in an informal, colloquial style and generally lacks good organisation of ideas. Unclear expression of ideas with poor structure. Mechanics, Grammar, and Proofing 5% Accurate and consistent referencing with no errors, accords with recognised format. Accurate and consistent referencing with few minor errors, accords with recognised format. Most information provided / consistent referencing, generally error free. Basic information provided most of the time / some errors in format. Unacceptable level of paraphrasing, insufficient citations and/or references, evidence of plagiarism.
