Sunway University Business School MU4 2213 Subject Overview APRIL 2024

SUBJECT OVERVIEW
MU4 2213 COMMUNITY PROJECT

Course : ALL Undergraduate Degrees of Sunway University Business School

Subject Code and Title : MU4 2213 Community Project

Pre-requisite : Communication Skills (ENG 2013)/ (ENG 2024)

Semester : April 2024

Contact Hour : 2 hours Lecture + 1 tutorial per week

Lecturer : Mr Andy Chua (andyc@sunway.edu.my)

Tutor : Mr Syakir Zailani (syakirz@sunway.edu.my)

Ms Indubala Krishnan (indubalak@sunway.edu.my)

Room : Part Time Office Level 8.

Consultation Hours : Please email your lecturer/tutor for consultation appointment.

SUBJECT DESCRIPTION
Community service is defined as an activity or event in which students are involved in work that
serves the society and the community. The act or event must have a direct, positive impact on
society and the community. Students learn more about the community by becoming actively
involved in it, honour the community by donating time and effort, and practice self-discipline as they
are accountable to the people they serve. The character-building module is conducted through
community projects and activities organised by students in collaboration and cooperation with the
university.

SUBJECT OBJECTIVES
This subject aims to create awareness of social responsibility in students. It aims to encourage
students to examine the role they play and the contributions they can make in supporting their
community, society and the environment.

BRITISH COUNCIL ACTIVE CITIZENS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE PROGRAMME AND ITS LEARNING JOURNEY
British Council Active Citizens Social Enterprise Programme (or, ACSE) is a social leadership training
programme that promotes intercultural dialogue and community-led social development. The
learning journey of ACSE starts by focusing on yourself, progressing to learning sharing and carrying
out social action with others. At each stage of the journey, the connections between personal and
social and local and global are explored.

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SUBJECT LEARNING OUTCOMES

On completion of this subject, students are expected to be able to:
SLO1 Discuss issues that affect the society and community. (A2, PLO4)

SLO2 Demonstrate leadership and team work while working in community project (A3, PLO 8)
Integrate the relevant skills during project implementation to strengthen lifelong
SLO3
learning (A5, PLO 9)

PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES

On completion of this programme, students are expected to be able to:
PLO1 analyse the relevant knowledge and understanding in accounting and finance/business
management/global supply chain management/international business/business
studies/marketing /financial analysis/financial economics/business
analytics/entrepreneurship (C4).
PLO2 evaluate problems critically and justify the relevant solutions effectively (C5).
PLO3 demonstrate the use of relevant tools and techniques for business analyses (P3).
PLO4 function on multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams (A3).
PLO5 demonstrate effective communication (A3).
PLO6 demonstrate the use of information and digital technologies to support business
decisions (A3).
PLO7 demonstrate the quantitative skills for business decisions (C2).
PLO8 demonstrate leadership and team skills (A3).
PLO9 manage information and acquire skills for life-long learning (A5).
PLO10 demonstrate managerial and entrepreneurial knowledge (A3).
PLO11 demonstrate professional values in business decisions (A3).

Mapping of Subject Learning Outcomes to Programme Learning Outcomes

Subject Programme Learning Outcomes
Learning
Outcomes PLO1 PLO2 PLO3 PLO4 PLO5 PLO6 PLO7 PLO8 PLO9 PLO10 PLO11
SLO1 
SLO2 
SLO3 

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
This programme aims to:
PO1 produce employable business graduates or professionals with a sound knowledge and
understanding of accounting and finance/business management/marketing/actuarial
studies,
PO2 produce business graduates who are ethical and responsible leaders or managers,
PO3 produce business graduates with the skills and competencies in critical thinking and
problem solving,
PO4 produce business graduates with managerial and entrepreneurial skills, and
PO5 produce graduates who recognise the need to engage in life-long learning for personal
and professional growth and development.

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Mapping of Subject Learning Outcomes to Programme Objectives

Subject Learning Outcomes Programme Objectives
PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5
SLO1 
SLO2 
SLO3 

DELIVERY METHODS
This is an experiential module. All students are expected to contribute to the group to ensure a
positive experience for all students. This includes engaging in all the activities, contributing to
discussions, developing good questions for discussion and demonstrating motivation to gain
knowledge. Students are expected to be active learners. Students are also expected to work
independently in their team to plan and execute the community project. Lecturer and tutors will
provide adequate guidance and mentorship over the course of the subject.
Lectures and tutorials will introduce and develop ideas and group work that allow students to
discuss the subject materials in more practical detail. The overall success of this module is largely
dependent on the quality of the participation and active learning. Students will be asked to reflect
about classroom activities and out-of-class activities and projects through class discussions,
reflection, report writings.

ASSESSMENTS
Students are assessed based on 100% coursework. The allocation of marks for each coursework are
as follows:
No. Coursework
CW1. Group: Tutorial Portfolio (TP) 30%
a. TP 1 (Issue identification & Project proposal) 15%
b. TP 2 (Leadership, teamwork and peer evaluation) 15%
CW2. Group: Report and Presentation 50%
o Group Report - MS Word Document
o Presentation of project
CW3. Individual Reflective Presentation 20%
o Personal Reflection (Individual)
TOTAL 100%

CW1 - Tutorial Portfolios (TP1 & TP2) (30%) - GROUP

Working in a group, the students are required to complete two portfolios during different tutorial
sessions with specified topics and outcomes. The portfolios aim to reflect upon a variety of activities,
experiences and learnings undertaken throughout the semester. The portfolios are designed to
review the students’ progress in achieving the intended learning outcomes planned for the subject.
It also serves to provide timely feedback to support the students’ learning journey in examining the
role they play and the contributions that they can make in supporting their community / society /
environment.
CW2 - Community Project Implementation Report and Presentation (50%) – GROUP
Students are required to implement a community project attending to a specified social issue that
concerned the students the most based on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) stated in the
lecture. Upon completion of the project, students are required to prepare a written report detailing
the SDG project conducted, the outcomes achieved, as well as reflect on the process of planning and

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implementing the project for areas of improvement. The students are also required to prepare an
oral presentation of the project implemented and will be formally assessed by the lecturer, and or
tutor.
CW3 Live Presentation- Personal Reflection (20%) - Individual
Students will be required to reflect on the lectures/tutorials and other experiential activities
conducted during the semester and the SDG Project undertaken, the experiences and learnings that
they gained. The reflecting presentation is the medium to help the students to process the
experiences gained and to review on the new understandings or values and unexpected things that
they have learnt about themselves.

LATE SUBMISSION PENALTY CLAUSE

The deadline for submission of assignment is to be strictly adhered to. No extension of time will be
allowed except in extenuating circumstances, e.g. medical reasons. Students who wish to apply for
an extension of time for the submission of assessment item(s) after the due date shall put in writing
the request, together with validated documentary evidence to support the application. If an
assignment is submitted after its due date (and without approval for extension), the following
penalty will be imposed:
 Coursework submitted after the deadline but within 1 week will be accepted for a maximum
mark of 40%.
 Work handed in following the extension of 1 week after the original deadline will be regarded
as a non-submission and marked at zero.

IMPORTANT NOTES

1. Marks awarded are provisional and subject to change, and are only deemed final once approved
by the Board of Examiners.

2. Extension and Late Submissions:

 The University requires students to adhere to submission deadlines for any form of
assessment.
 Subject lecturers are authorized to grant extensions for coursework within their own
subjects and agreements will be documented.
 Extensions must be requested by students to subject lecturer in advance of the deadline,
and proper justifications be provided for the request.
 Any work submitted after the deadline, or after any period of extension granted shall be
marked as a Fail and awarded a zero.

3. Student feedback is considered to be a vital element of the programme since it is through such
feedback that the programme can be improved. There are a number of mechanisms for student
feedback:
 At the end of each semester, an evaluation questionnaire will be issued.
 Each intake is entitled to nominate a student to act as representative on the Student-Staff
Committee. The Committee meets once every long semester and encourages dialogue
between students and staff in areas of administration, learning and teaching.
 Students are entitled to raise matters of concern or complaint with the lecturer, project
supervisors or Programme Coordinator.
Where appropriate a complaint may be made directly to the Dean

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ACADEMIC MALPRACTICE
Plagiarism consists of unacknowledged use of someone else’s work and attempting to pass it off as
one’s own. It includes the representation of work: written, visual, practical or otherwise, of any other
person, including another student or anonymous web-based material, or any institution, as the
candidate’s own. It may take the form of:
i. the verbatim copying or insertion of another’s work without clear identification and
acknowledgement - including the downloading of materials from the internet without proper
referencing, published or unpublished and including work of another student;
ii. paraphrasing by, for instance, substituting a few words or phrases or altering the order of
presentation of another person's work, or linking unacknowledged sentences or phrases with words of
one's own;
iii. unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another person’s work;
iv. the deliberate and detailed presentation of another’s concept as one’s own;
v. work that has been completed, altered, translated or corrected by another person, and is
submitted as if it was the student's own work;
vi. work that has already been published in another language, and have been translated into English
by the student themselves or by another person;
vii. direct facsimile of an image, a sound or performance without due acknowledgement of its
source;
viii. copying work that was originally completed and submitted by the student and resubmitted for
another purpose, without acknowledgement of this, unless resubmission is allowed;

Collusion occurs when there is conscious collaboration, without official approval, between two or
more students in the preparation and production of work which is ultimately submitted by each in an
identical or substantially similar form and/or is represented by each to be the product of his or her
individual efforts. Collusion includes:
i. unauthorised collaboration with another student in completion of work;
ii. submission as entirely his/her own work, work done in collaboration with another person, with
the intention to gain an unfair advantage;
iii. knowingly permitting another student to copy all or part of one's work which that student then
submits as their own unaided work; iv. falsely claims involvement in approved and assessed group
work and colludes with that group in order to deceive the lecturer or tutor.

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SUBJECT OUTLINE- WEEKLY PLAN

WEEK LECTURE (2hrs) - Physical Class TUTORIAL (1hr) – Physical Class
1 Introduction to the Module No Tutorial
22 April  Discussion on Community Project
2024  Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs)
 Working in virtual environment

2 Discuss issues that affect the society and Formation of Group

29 April community  Working with members of different identity
2024  Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) &  Sustainable Development Goals
Society  Tutorial Portfolio 1 discussion- SDG
 Information search on SDGs / Projects
 Working in Group

3 Discuss issues that affect the society and
6 May 2024 community
 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) &
Environment
 Information search on SDGs/ Projects
 Social Media- Facebook & Instagram
Discuss issues that affect the society and
community
Confirmation of Group Members
*Working on your Tutorial Portfolio 1
 Discussion on Tutorial Portfolio 1
 Discussion of Progress Report 1

4 Discuss issues that affect the society and Submission:

13 May community Group Indemnity Form &
2024  Project Implementation CW1 Tutorial Portfolio 1 – 15%
Project: Community Service as the Means of Self-
Development
 Debriefing & Reflecting
Briefing on Tutorial Portfolio 2
5 Research Week (No Lecture) Research Week
20 May (Tutorial Arrangement Subject to Tutors)
2024

6 Discuss issues that affect the society and Project: Community Service as the Means of Self-
27 May community Development
2024  Project Implementation Discussion of Progress of TP2

7 Research Week (No Lecture) Research Week

3 June 2024 (Tutorial Arrangement Subject to Tutors)

8 Project Implementation Project Implementation/ Progress Check

10 June  Evaluation of your leadership skill and  Reporting the outcomes
2024  Effectiveness of your team work Submission:
 CW1 Tutorial Portfolio 2 – 15% and Peer
Evaluation
Discussion of Progress CW2
Week 9
17 June 2024
MID-TERM BREAK
10 Learning through Reflection Submission
24 June  What have I achieved?  Deadline: Respective Tutorial Day in
2024  Outcome & Learning from Projects Week 10
 Learning from Individual  CW2 Group Report + Power Point - 50%
 CW3 Individual Power point – 20%
Coursework: Group & Individual Presentation
11  Live Presentation- Sequence Identified by Tutors
1 July 2024 o Group Report 50%

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o Individual Personal Reflection

12 Coursework: Group & Individual Presentation

8 July 2024  Live Presentation- Presentation Continues
o Group Report 50%
o Individual Personal Reflection

13 Coursework: Group & Individual Presentation

15 July  Live Presentation- Presentation Continues
2024 o Group Report 50% Ends on the last tutorial of the week.
Individual Personal Reflection
14 No Lecture (Only Tutorials for Week 14) Wrap up session – Overall SDG and Project
22 July implementation
2024

15 Revision Week

Suggested Readings:
Books
 Larson, E. (2020), Project management the managerial process (8th ed): McGraw-Hill Education
 Northouse (2019), Leadership: Theory and Practice (8th ed): SAGE Publications, Inc.

Additional Reference and Websites:

 Dey (2018), Social Entrepreneurship and affirmative critique (1st ed) Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire.
 United Nations - https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/resourcelibrary
 Sustainable Development Goals: 17 Goals to Transform our World, available at
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

NB: More reference materials will be provided on E-learn from time to time.

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