MSM7052 Managing Global Challenges Semester 1 Assignment Brief 2024-25

Task/assessment brief:

You are required to identify a global challenge, defined as a public problem of transnational scope, which is relevant to public management in your country or a country with which you are familiar. 

To complete the assessment task, you need to upload a pre-recorded presentation that gives a background to the challenge, in terms of public management and diagnoses its key drivers. 

The presentation should be between 4 and 6 minutes in length and use no more than 5 PowerPoint slides. 

You should record narration for each slide using the Powerpoint video recording feature and submit the narrated slides to the submission point on Moodle as a .pptx file. 

In the seminars, we will discuss:

(a) How to use the Powerpoint recording feature.
(b) The key features of a high-quality, successful video presentation.

You will have the opportunity in the seminars to complete a ‘dry run’ of your presentation to get informal feedback from your tutor and peers. This is not assessed but you are encouraged to reflect critically on the feedback to help you deliver the best possible output that you can in the final PRES1 submission.

The rationale for this authentic assessment is to develop your critical perspectives on managing global challenges by building empirical knowledge of the problem which you will use as the basis of your policy report in WRIT1. 

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes assessed

•    Identify and evaluate different public management approaches to address global challenges.
•    Formulate reform options for building public management capacity and capability to address global challenges. 
•    Independently examine questions of public management for global challenges. 

Other skills/attributes developed

This includes elements of the Cardiff Met EDGE (Ethical, Digital, Global, and Entrepreneurial skills) and other attributes developed in students through the completion of the module and assessment. These will also be highlighted in the module guidance, which should be read by all students completing the module. Assessments are not just a way of auditing student knowledge. They are a process that provides additional learning and development through the preparation for and completion of the assessment.