Course Coordinator:Tara Gamble (tgamble@usc.edu.au) School:School of Health - Public Health
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus, unless your program has specified a mandatory onsite requirement. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
In this course you will develop knowledge about your role as a health practitioner in contributing to the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and populations in a comprehensive primary health care context. You will develop and apply skills in interprofessional collaboration and reflection and will explore the meaning and relevance of the social gradient and health equity, ethics, health literacy and cultural self-awareness.
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Workshop - on-campus | 2hrs | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Learning materials – Independent structured learning materials | 2hrs | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Seminar – HLT140 skills and concepts | 1hr | Week 3 | 2 times |
| Online | |||
| Learning materials – Independent structured learning materials. | 2hrs | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Workshop - online. | 2hrs | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Seminar – HLT140 skills and concepts | 1hr | Week 3 | 2 times |
What is health?
Global, national and local health policy, systems and structures
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Comprehensive primary health care
Interprofessional collaborative practice and health disciplines
The social gradient in health
Health inequities
Ethical practice
Cultural self-awareness
Health literacy
Groupwork
Introduction to sourcing and referencing credible literature
Reflective practice and writing
100 Level (Introductory)
12 units
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Mapping Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | Professional Standard Mapping * International Union for Health Promotion and Education | |
| 1 | Describe health science concepts within a comprehensive primary health care context. |
Knowledgeable Information literacy |
A.1, B.2, B.4 |
| 2 | Describe and apply interprofessional collaborative practice in reference to health disciplines. |
Empowered Communication Collaboration |
B.9, 4.1 |
| 3 | Apply reflection skills to explore your cultural self. |
Engaged Communication Information literacy |
A.3, B.4, 4.1 |
| CODE | COMPETENCY |
| International Union for Health Promotion and Education | |
| A.1 | Health as a human right, which is central to human development |
| B.2 | The concepts of health equity, social justice and health as a human right as the basis for health promotion action |
| A.3 | Respect for all aspects of diversity including gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, ethnicity, race, and cultural beliefs |
| B.4 | The impact of social and cultural diversity on health and health inequities and the Implications for health promotion action |
| B.9 | The communication processes and current information technology required for effective health promotion action |
| 4.1 | Use effective communication skills including written, verbal, nonverbal, and listening skills |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
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Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
You will receive early feedback in Week 1. You can use this feedback to inform your approach to Assessment Task 1.
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| All | 1 | Quiz/zes | Individual | 20% | 1 hour (each) |
Throughout teaching period (refer to Format) | Online Test (Quiz) |
| All | 2 | Written Piece | Individual | 40% | Two (2) worksheets. |
Week 7 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All | 3 | Written Piece | Individual | 40% | 800 words |
Week 12 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All - Assessment Task 1:Online quiz | |||||||
| Goal: | To demonstrate your understanding of health science concepts. |
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| Product: | Quiz/zes | ||||||
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| Format: | Multiple quizzes via Canvas based on course learning materials. Quiz open and close dates will be available on Canvas at the commencement of the trimester. |
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| Generic Skills: | Information literacy |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Worksheets | |||||||||||||
| Goal: | To demonstrate your understanding of interprofessional collaborative practice in reference to health professions and your skills in collaboration and sourcing credible literature. |
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| Product: | Written Piece | ||||||||||||
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| Format: | You will complete two (2) provided worksheets relating to interprofessional collaborative practice. One worksheet will require attendance at a workshop. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Collaboration |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Structured reflection | ||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | To demonstrate your cultural self-awareness and skills in reflection. |
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| Product: | Written Piece | |||||||||||||||
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| Format: | You will describe your cultural self and consider this in reference to working as a health professional. You will apply a structured, reflection framework. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Information literacy |
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| Programme Delivery Mode | Assessment Type | Title | Competency | Teaching Methods |
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| The CompHP Core Competencies Framework for Health Promotion 2011 | ||||
| All delivery modes | Quiz/zes | Online quiz | 4.1 | Taught, Practiced, Assessed |
| Written Piece | Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Worksheets | B.4 | Taught, Practiced, Assessed | |
| Structured reflection | A.3 | Taught, Practiced, Assessed | ||
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
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Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.
The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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