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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
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).
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 | 40% |
| 2. Group Work | 40% |
| 3. Written Assessment | 20% |
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%).
Past Exams
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Term 2 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 5.17% 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: Unit Coordinator reflection.
Students remained highly engaged over the term and were comfortable with Wiki operation, contributing regularly to these over the term.
Continue to provide a familiarisation session for students on the online Wikis during Week 1 of the term.
Following consultation with relevant Heads of Courses and the previous Unit Coordinator for this unit, there were changes to assessments to improve student engagement in this unit. Resultingly, an Update Unit Proposal was submitted and approved prior to Term 2, 2025, which resulted in a change of assessments. Consequently, the summative assessment involving Wiki's was removed. However, Wikis were still included as formative assessment activities and students were still given guidance on the online Wikis to get familiarised with this learning tool.
Source: Student feedback.
Encourage student discussion on the weekly topics via the online forums.
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.
The Unit Coordinator continued to encourage students to share their thoughts on the Moodle discussion forums about the weekly topics over the term.
Source: SUTE Unit Comments Report
Students felt that the lecturer was approachable and that all feedback provided was constructive and useful.
Continue to provide student-centred, detailed, and personalised feedback to learners, whilst fostering an engaging, inviting and inclusive learning environment.
In Progress
Source: SUTE Unit Evaluations
Some students felt that the unit was not relevant to their degree and that the knowledge and skills gained from the unit were not useful.
Explain and provide learning activities that showcase the usefulness of the learning content and skills in this unit to a range of degrees, including those that are not the Bachelor of Public Health (e.g., Bachelor of Occupational Health and Safety).
In Progress
Source: SUTE Unit Evaluations
Students felt there were useful learning materials and that they learned from assessments.
Continue to provide a range of learning materials to cater to various learners and learning styles, whilst also ensuring all assessments are authentic.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Compare and contrast various models of health and health promotion including determinants of health, models of sustainability and change
- Analyse and evaluate the impact of principles and models of health and health promotion in real world efforts in the health promotion discipline
- Examine the role of partnerships in health promotion contexts
- Examine styles of leadership within health promotion partnerships
- Create a health promotion activity/initiative in partnership with a multidisciplinary team.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |||
| 2 - Group Work | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | |||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |