HLTH11029 - Health Promotion Concepts

General Information

Unit Synopsis

You will examine and apply fundamental health promotion concepts in this unit. Models of health and health promotion are identified and analysed as to their impact on the development of the health promotion discipline. In particular, determinants of health, models of sustainability and change are considered. You will examine the role of partnerships within health promotion, with a particular focus on styles of leadership within teams. Partnership and leadership skills will be developed through a small group work project. Information literacy skills are developed and integrated into the unit activities.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

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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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Melbourne
Online

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. Written Assessment 60%
2. Written Assessment 40%

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%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 20% 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: Phone call with non-engaged students
Feedback
Some students did not participate in the class activity because they were working full-time and had no time to complete their activities
Recommendation
Remind students about the time commitment required to complete this unit successfully. The class activities will also be reviewed to ensure that they can be completed in a timely manner.
Action Taken
Students were reminded to complete the Wiki activities over the term via Zoom, Moodle and email.
Source: Reflection
Feedback
Due to the small number of enrolled students, working in groups has been a challenging task in this unit.
Recommendation
Consider designing a different assessment instead of asking students to complete a weekly bibliography post. Alternatively, each weekly bibliography should have some grade incentives attached to allow students to complete the activities. If there are no incentives provided, students may choose to give priority to other tasks instead of these activities.
Action Taken
A portion of marks was allocated to individual student contributions for each written assessment item.
Source: Reflection
Feedback
The fact that only a few students are enrolled in this particular unit is a matter of concern as it could have many implications, such as limited opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, a lack of diverse perspectives in class discussions, and potentially less interaction between students and instructors. This low enrolment could also impact the unit's sustainability, and if this trend continues, it could lead to the unit being cancelled altogether.
Recommendation
It may be helpful to make this unit appealing to students and increase the number of students enrolled. For example, enrolment could be improved by making this unit more appealing to students by identifying the key benefits of the unit to students in other courses and communicating these benefits through effective marketing and outreach efforts. Highlighting the unit's unique strengths and advantages will increase students' enrolments, leading to greater student engagement and academic success.
Action Taken
In the week 1 live session, students were introduced to the field of health promotion and how action in this area relates to each of their disciplines.
Source: Unit Coordinator reflection.
Feedback
Students remained highly engaged over the term and were comfortable with Wiki operation, contributing regularly to these over the term.
Recommendation
Continue to provide a familiarisation session for students on the online Wikis during Week 1 of the term.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student feedback.
Feedback
Encourage student discussion on the weekly topics via the online forums.
Recommendation
Encourage students to share their thoughts on the Moodle discussion forums about the weekly topics over the term via the Zoom session support sessions and emails.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Compare and contrast various models of health and health promotion including determinants of health, models of sustainability and change
  2. Analyse the impact of models of health and health promotion on development of health promotion as a discipline
  3. Examine the role of partnerships in health promotion contexts
  4. Examine styles of leadership within health promotion partnerships.
  5. Construct an annotated bibliography in partnership with a multidisciplinary team


Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment • • •
2 - 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 • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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1 - Written Assessment • • • • • • •
2 - Written Assessment • • • • • • •