Students will be required to undertake compulsory pre-departure activities and assessment, such as completion of online interactive material, or analysis of scenarios or case studies. Students will negotiate a suitable assessment task to be submitted after their international experience as well as giving a group presentation and reflecting on their own experiences and experiences of other participants.

Where practical, the assessment should include recommendations or some outcome for addressing issues they encounter during their experience that would be of benefit to the host community

1. Pre placement Preparation = Students learn about the context of the forthcoming field experience and about the development of skills in observation, reflection, investigating appropriate academic literature and inductive and deductive thinking as well as working in groups;
2. Experiences: students participate in a real field project and in so doing practice and apply their skills in observation, reflection, and inductive and deductive thinking. Assessment through field record book, reflective diary or equivalent and participation in activities (e.g. initiative shown, questions asked);
3. Professional assessment: students integrate their observations and thoughts with the academic literature and a record of their experience which also includes outcome based recommendations.

The course requires each student to gain acceptance into a project involving a field experience outside of Australia.

Acceptance into the course will be determined by GPA, a written application and an interview and may be determined by parameters set by funding bodies or by the laws of the destination country. Availability of any particular program, or the course, in any particular year cannot be assured in advance. As students are ambassadors for Australia and for The University of Adelaide, a cumulative GPA of 4.00 at the end of the penultimate semester prior to departure is a course pre-requisite.

Pre experience case studies and activities (30%): This will be developed as appropriate for the experience and could include case studies.

Students would be required to assess and understand social and cultural context of those case studies. This activity will be conducted in small groups and the aim will be to get more out of the off-shore experience by having worked on some issues beforehand.

 Professional experience Assessment task (40%)

The primary assessment task during the international experience is a reflective diary or field book to be completed during the tour. This would be approximately 2000 words and will also include a synthesis and summary of up to 400 words.

 Post experience presentation and group reflection (30%)

Students will choose a topic they wish to research further, seek approval from the tour coordinator and then write an essay or literature review on the topic. Students would be required to consider the social and cultural context of the topic (approximately 2000 words).

 Students are encouraged to present and share their experience to other course participants in face to face presentation or using an online forum – eg blog or videoed presentation.