An analysis of the launch of innovative Undergraduate Cross-Programme, Cross-Year group School of Innovation and Technology Electives, focusing on the playful collaborations within "Sonic Worlds: Emotion in Sound and Experimental Film" elective (between groups of Product Design, Immersive Systems Design (3DModelling/Games and VR) and Sound for Moving Image students in Years 2 and 3.This was a project that drew students from lots of different world cultures and students from Year 2 and Year 3, across Programmes in the SIT UG population - there are methods and themes around emotional intelligence, with emotions from diverse knowledges communities to be interpreted through collaborative creativity. This presentation will draw out the features around teaching delivery, inclusive learning sessions, and coursework assessment structure that specifically enact principles of the 2024 Equality Impact Assessments drawn up for the GSA's Common Academic Framework (fostering good relations between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and persons who do not). There will be an explanation of the behind-the-scenes collaborative work between PLs and lecturers across SIT to devise the SIT Electives, as well as highlights of results from the students' excellent, emotion inducing audio visual work (as well as their critical reflections).

THEME: Strengthening student engagement, community and belonging (but could also be Supporting student transitions in, through and out /Supporting students creative skills and capabilities for learning and practice

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