Task Description:

By the start of Week 2 you will have completed an Engagement Task where you posted previous learnings relating to a sustainability problem in an online ‘Knowledge Tree’. Your post would have been made under one of the 'Knowledge Tree's ‘existing Sustainability Challenge Themes’.

This assignment is an assessment of learning task that involves teaching staff directly observing assessment activity. In our unit it takes the form of an individual conversation between teaching staff and each student. Each conversation will run for five minutes and will be assessed according to the rubric. For the task you will need to:

1. Choose a ‘Sustainability Challenge Theme’.
2. Review the knowledge tree posts within that theme.
3. Attend an online conversation with teaching staff where we will discuss:
(a) The range of problems written about in your theme.
(b) The problem you believe is most serious and why.
(c) Explains how this problem affects you and your community. Here community can mean workplace community, and or the local community where you live.
(d) How the problem relates to different Sustainable Development Goals.

The discussion will be conversational in nature and teaching staff will lead the direction of the conversation. We encourage you to prepare notes as you read through the Engagement Task posts while remaining aware that the purpose of the assessment is to enquire about the depth of your learning so far in the Diploma.

Over the course of week four, students will have a one-on-one discussion with a member of the teaching team. The booking process for this assessment will be discussed at the beginning of the unit.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 4 (16/Mar/2026)

Weight:

20 %

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For this task, you will design an intervention for change.

You will select a problem to address at a personal and community level in which to develop an intervention for change. The problem being addressed in Task 2 can be the same problem described in Task 1 or can involve a completely new problem. The main thing is to select a sustainability problem that has relevance to you personally and within your community. Again, here community can mean workplace community, and or the local community where you live. In terms of the latter, your family household or share house would be the smallest measure of community. Ideally we would like students to select problems they can address upon finishing the unit.

Write a report detailing your intervention for change project that;
1. Includes 1 x A4 page project logic chain. An template will be provided to guide the development of your project logic chain. The template will ask you to
a. provides a short descriptive title for the project
b. identity the project’s:
i. goals/targets,
ii. stakeholders/ partners,
iii. activities,
iv. inputs,
v. outcomes,
vi. link to Sustainable Development Goals,
vii. evaluation indicators.
2. Describes and analyses in 1000 words your project in terms of:
a. A brief overview of the current situation, giving attention to some of the social, political, moral, cultural, economic and or environmental issues involved.
b. What are some of your assumptions, values and beliefs concerning sustainability and how are they embodied in the intervention for change? A key sub-question to address is:
i. How might your assumptions, values and beliefs differ from those of others involved in the project and how would you work with this difference?
c. How your intervention will work, including the key practices and how stakeholders/partners will be involve.
Your description and analysis may include figures: charts, graphs, maps, images, diagrams etc, or tables. These are excluded in the word count and must be interpreted in the body of the report.

Your report must cite any relevant sources using APA 7th Referencing. The use of generative AI is discouraged, however any use of AI as a learning tool must be in alignment with the UTAS guidelines on academic integrity.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 8 (20/Apr/2026)

Weight:

40 %

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Task Description:

For this task, you will compile a Practice Manual that identifies and describes 13 ‘learning artefacts’ that have provided meaning to your aspirations for sustainable living. A ‘learning artefact’ is any object/thing that has lasting effect/affect and has helped you progress your learning and can include things like a report, book, essay, article, concept, idea, meme, theory, framework, process, principle, project, event, certificate, lesson, course, degree, people, group, event, etc. The manual will tell a story of what has informed your sense of sustainability, and be a document you can return to in the future for further reflection.

Your Practice Manual should be structured as follows (an example is available in Mylo):
1) Introduction: You will introduce the ‘learning artefacts’ by first preparing a reflection that explains what you have learned about sustainability. Reflect also on what role the Diploma of Sustainable Living has played in your learning.
2) Artefacts: Each artefact should be depicted through a mixture of images and or text. In addition, for each artifact, you will provide a 100 word annotation that explains how the artefact gives meaning to and contextualises your aspirations for sustainable living.
3) Conclusion: In the context of your learning, you will outline your future plans for sustainable living - these can be plans across different scales and scopes. You must show how these plans relate to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Your Practice Manual must cite any relevant sources. As this is a reflective assignment, the use of generative AI is not permitted.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 11 (11/May/2026)

Weight:

40 %

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