Program Overview

Unit Overview

The unit HUMA334 - Arts Field Trip or Study Tour is designed to extend theoretical and conceptual learning in the discipline by connecting students with communities and contexts where they can apply analysis, reflection, and evidence-based argument to solving real-world problems in the field.

Unit Rationale, Description, and Aim

This unit aims to enable students to achieve the Course Learning Outcomes relating to knowledge of theories, concepts, and methodologies in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences while completing a study tour or field trip internationally or within Australia. Scholars in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences need to be able to respond to diverse and dynamic socio-cultural environments, populations, and issues and apply their learning to problem-solving in real-world contexts.

Learning Outcomes

To successfully complete this unit, students will be able to:

• Articulate knowledge of the location to be visited, its geographic and historical contexts, and other themes or concepts relevant to the area of study.
• Contribute effectively to field experiences or the study tour while documenting, reflecting on, and critically interpreting learning.
• Apply information and skills to complete a range of activities allocated to the field trip, study tour, or cross-institutional unit.

Content

Topics will include:

• Contextual information about the study tour location(s)
• Conceptual study topics related to the study tour
• Fieldwork activities exploring topic areas relevant to the discipline

For Archaeology field trips:

• Pre-trip reading
• Pre-trip briefing
• Training in safety on a dig
• Training in how to correctly use equipment
• Continual instruction and directed activity in the field
• Artefact handling and processing
• Lectures by specialists in archaeology and related disciplines
• Excursions to other archaeological sites and places of cultural interest

Assessment Strategy and Rationale

The assessment tasks and their weightings are carefully structured to align with and demonstrate achievement of the unit's Learning Outcomes. To pass the unit, students must complete and actively participate in all assessment components.

Assessment Tasks

1. Reflective Task During the Study Tour: Maintain an online diary describing field-based learning activities and reflecting on their connection to concepts and scholarly debates in the field. (Weighting: 30%)
2. Oral Presentation: Present an oral presentation on one aspect of their fieldwork findings to their tutor and peers and critically engage with the presentations of their fellow students. (Weighting: 30%)
3. Written Task: Prepare an essay or other written task, preparing a sustained argument that integrates their field-based learning to key concepts, debates, and methods in their field. (Weighting: 40%)

Learning and Teaching Strategy and Rationale

This unit is delivered in intensive study mode as a domestic or overseas study tour, field trip, or cross-institutional study experience. The intensive mode of teaching includes a pre-departure workshop(s), an intensive field trip, and a post-field trip debrief session. Attendance at pre-departure and study tour classes is compulsory.

Representative Texts and References

Texts and references appropriate to the topics will be identified in connection with each study tour. References will be set according to the theme of the study tour.

Credit Points and Year

• Credit points: 10
• Year: 2026

Campus Offering

No unit offerings are currently available for this unit.

Prerequisites

Nil