Unit Synopsis
The concept of wellbeing is central to Positive Psychology and it has been explored across many disciplines, cultures and spiritual traditions. In this unit, you will take a critical approach to cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural and spiritual theories and research on wellbeing. Through this exploration you will develop a holistic understanding of wellbeing concepts and practices. You will gain an understanding of how wellbeing is determined in different cultural and spiritual settings and across a range of academic disciplines and the implications for Positive Psychology.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 8 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| 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 2 - 2025
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 Postgraduate 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 | 30% |
| 2. Presentation | 35% |
| 3. Creative work | 35% |
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
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 83.33% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 24.49% 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: Student Feedback and Student Evaluations
Variations in assessment instructions between Workshop and Moodle materials and other course materials confused some students.
Ensure instructions are consistent between different unit materials.
The Unit Coordinator reviewed materials and re-drafted assessment instructions across these formats, ensuring all instructions are coherent.
Source: Student Feedback and Unit Coordinator Reflection.
Pausing recordings (i.e., not recording) during live online Workshop discussions enabled students to engage with each other and the content more freely.
Continue to record task instructions and pause recording for more sensitive student discussions.
The Unit Coordinator paused the recording for sensitive student discussions.
Source: Unit Coordinator's observations.
The inclusion of First Nations' knowledges in the unit content was well received and many students engaged with this material in rich and nuanced ways.
Unit Coordinator will continue to revise, review and enhance the First Nations' knowledges in the unit materials.
In Progress
Source: Unit Coordinator's observations.
Students continue to engage with the assessments exploring their own and other culture's perspectives on wellbeing in ways that demonstrate good critical thinking and positive change.
Unit Coordinator will continue to revise and review unit material to support growth in critical thinking in relation to culture.
In Progress
Source: Unit Coordinator's observations.
Some students taking this unit have underdeveloped research and writing skills which can impact their understanding of assessment tasks.
Unit Coordinator to request the Academic Learning Centre to provide a tutorial on research and writing skills and how to understand assessment tasks.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Evaluate wellbeing theories, research and practices in different disciplinary, spiritual and cultural systems
- Apply knowledge of different approaches to wellbeing to generate comprehensive, holistic models of wellbeing
- Apply communication skills to translate complex knowledge and ideas about wellbeing to a variety of audiences.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |
| 2 - Presentation | • | • | |
| 3 - Creative work | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | • |
| 4 - Research | • | • | |
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |
| 2 - Presentation | • | • | • | ||||||
| 3 - Creative work | • | • | • | ||||||
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | |||||