Australia

This course examines what is creativity; what is entrepreneurship; and why do they matter. In this course, students will identify, analyze and propose a solution to a meaningful unsolved problem in the world for an identified market segment. The course runs in an experiential mode, and you will form multidisciplinary teams to tackle their chosen problem, guided by entrepreneurship mentors and UNSW alumni who are running their own startup. Practical tools and protocols will be introduced for critically developing solution concepts, performing competitive analyses, building mindsets, skills, creativity and problem-solving, motivating and developing others, networking, building effective cross-disciplinary teams, designing experiments to validate concepts and rapid prototyping. Students will then learn pitching and visual and graphic design skills, learning how to communicate influentially.

This course examines the importance of health and human capital to individual well-being and economic growth. It evaluates how the natural, social, economic, and political environments affect the accumulation and stock of health and human capital and the ways in which health and human capital interact with one another. It documents the considerable inequality in health and human capital across society and considers ways in which policy may help reduce this inequality.

This course examines the essentials of understanding and managing climate risk, including how climate risk may manifest as a challenge in a wide range of sectors such as built environment, engineering, business, health, law, economics and policy.