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ENVH13002 - Environmental Health Risk Management

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This course integrates the aspects of environmental health theory and practice covered within other environmental health courses by focusing on current management and policy issues; strategies; tools and approaches. Students will develop an understanding of the different environmental health roles and responsibilities within the three levels of government and how this relates to the current issues facing environmental health managers. During residential school students will be able to apply a range of strategies, tools and approaches to the risk assessment and management practices related to a range of environmental health issues. These issues include: emergency management; communicable disease surveillance and control and indigenous environmental health policy.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prereq: ENVH11001 Health & the Environment

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2016

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Term 2 - 2019 Profile
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Term 2 - 2020 Profile
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Term 2 - 2021 Profile
Mixed Mode
Term 2 - 2022 Profile
Mixed Mode
Term 2 - 2023 Profile
Mixed Mode
Term 2 - 2024 Profile
Mixed Mode

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Group Discussion 20%
2. On-campus Activity 20%
3. Written Assessment 10%
4. Written Assessment 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50.00% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: SUTE
Feedback
Students felt that there were too many group assessment tasks.
Recommendation
No change to the number of group tasks. These are intended to reflect the time limited and intense nature of emergent work in the environmental health profession and the need to be able to rapidly assemble and evaluate evidence to provide a resolution. Given this is a third year unit, three short group tasks is not excessive.
Action Taken
The group tasks remained in place.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Guidance was required for assessment tasks 1 and 3.
Recommendation
Provide some early guidance on the group assessment task (task 1), although as a capstone unit the task should not be unduly scaffolded. Continue to offer tutorials for Task 3.
Action Taken
Some additional guidance was provided for the first group task and feedback for this task was somewhat more detailed than in past years.
Source: Observation, student emails, student misconduct report
Feedback
Some students were challenged by the requirement to work effectively as a team.
Recommendation
Provide some additional material and early activities to support effective teamwork. Introduce a process for reporting difficulties amongst team members from an early stage.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Show a detailed understanding of the different environmental health roles and responsibilities within the three levels of government.
  2. Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the current issues facing environmental health managers.
  3. Consolidate understanding of environmental health professional practice
  4. Apply risk assessment and risk management practices pertaining to a range of environmental health issues
  5. Use a range of strategies, tools and approaches to effectively manage environmental health hazards and issues.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Group Discussion
2 - On-campus Activity
3 - Written Assessment
4 - Written Assessment
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Communication
2 - Problem Solving
3 - Critical Thinking
4 - Information Literacy
5 - Team Work
6 - Information Technology Competence
7 - Cross Cultural Competence
8 - Ethical practice
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Group Discussion
2 - On-campus Activity
3 - Written Assessment
4 - Written Assessment