Internationalising the Curriculum

Jan Schapper and Susan Mayson

The presentation reviews and reflects upon the Internationalisation of the Curriculum Project. It is an interactive session, with participants being invited to discuss their own experiences, with the aim of examining whether lessons learnt during the project are applicable elsewhere in the university.

Neil Manson

In this presentation Neil discusses some of the ways in which the South African School of IT has tailored the degrees and units on offer to achieve excellence. The School has an obligation to both Monash University and Higher Education sector of South Africa . The School must fulfill its goal as a Public Purpose University that meets the needs of the South African and African societies.

Kitchen of the World: a case study in multi-national groups undertaking design studio activity (pdf, 669 KB)

Accompanying paper (pdf, 33.5 KB)

The presentation describes a case study of an Industrial Design project concerning the kitchen: its environment and the products within it. Students from Sweden , the United Kingdom and Monash were grouped into multi-national creative teams to expose them to new cultural experiences as they learnt about international teamwork. The project exposed both flawed and effective strategies for refining studio experience. The findings of the study have implications for how creativity is best taught.