Unit Synopsis
In this unit you will explore your own lifestyle behaviours as well as those of others. You will consider how lifestyle behaviours and culture impact on health outcomes and consider how lifestyle behaviours are developed and reinforced. You will explore the knowledge, attitudes and values that influence lifestyle behaviours of individuals, communities and populations and interventions that could delay the onset of potential health problems across the lifespan. As part of this exploration, you will learn to undertake basic health indicator measurements and consider how these relate to lifestyles.
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 1 - 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 | 50% |
| 2. Portfolio | 30% |
| 3. Online Quiz(zes) | 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 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 33.33% 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.
The new assessment task that was introduced this term was successful in helping students to make real-world connections to the unit concepts. Despite the small class size, it also helped generate some discussion on the online forums.
Keep the assessment task in the unit for term 1, 2025.
The assessment task was retained in Term 1, 2025 as recommended. It continued to support students in making meaningful real-world connections to unit concepts.
Source: Unit coordinator reflection
Students required frequent prompting to submit assessments.
Explore strategies to improve student accountability, such as clearer assessment timelines and automated reminders.
In Progress
Source: Unit coordinator reflection
The real-world assessment task continued to support conceptual understanding.
Retain the real-world assessment task for Term 1, 2026.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Explain how lifestyle behaviours and culture can have positive and negative impacts on health outcomes
- Undertake basic health indicator measurements and explain how these relate to lifestyle
- Explain how lifestyle behaviours are developed and reinforced
- Discuss how to delay the onset of potential health problems and reduce health risk factors across the lifespan
- Explain knowledge, attitudes and values used to influence lifestyle behaviours in individuals, communities and populations
- Critically reflect on own experience of changing lifestyle behaviour.
Not applicable.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | ||||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | |||
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | |||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | |||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | |||||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | • | ||||||
| 3 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | ||||||||