Course Outline
HLT600 Indigenous Wellbeing Foundations
Course Coordinator:Kathryn Wenham (kwenham@usc.edu.au) School:School of Health - Public Health
2024Semester 1
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus. |
Please go to usc.edu.au for up to date information on the
teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
What is this course about?
Description
This course will develop your advanced knowledge for Indigenous wellbeing and skills for culturally safe health promotion professional practice. Working with Indigenous Peoples requires you to have critical self-reflective skills for cultural humility and knowledge of decolonisation methodologies in order to engage with Indigenous ways of knowing, doing and being. You will apply your developing knowledge of decolonisation methodologies and self-reflective skills to critique historical, political, social and cultural determinants contributing to contemporary Indigenous wellbeing.
How will this course be delivered?
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
| Online | |||
| Online – 3 hours of structured asynchronous online learning activities and an optional 1-hour online Zoom drop in session | 4hrs | Week 1 | 13 times |
Course Topics
The topics for this course follow the Australian Government’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework, including topics under the modules of respect, communication, safety and quality, reflection and advocacy. Topics include the following:
Pre-colonial Australia: First Nations Australians Society, Post-Colonisation: Policies past & present
The diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing
Cultural Humility - the role of reflexive practice, cultural self and health
Intersectionality and White privilege
Population health, social and cultural determinants of health
Strengths-based approaches, Two-way knowing
Culturally safe communication
Protocols for engaging with Indigenous communities
Partnerships, Indigenous Health Professionals.
Leadership, Advocacy
Equity and Human Rights
Closing the Gap
What level is this course?
600 Level (Specialised)
What is the unit value of this course?
12 units
How does this course contribute to my learning?
| 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 | Demonstrate cultural humility through critical self-reflexivity in relation to Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellbeing. |
Ethical Engaged |
A.2, B.2, B.3, A.4, B.4, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 |
| 2 | Synthesise Indigenous knowledges and apply decolonising methodologies in an Indigenous wellbeing context. |
Creative and critical thinker Ethical |
B.3, A.4, A.5, 1.2, 4.1, 4.3, 6.4 |
| 3 | Demonstrate advanced knowledge and advocacy skills for evidence-based practice, informed by Indigenous perspectives for health and wellbeing initiatives. | Knowledgeable |
A.1, A.2, 1.2, 2.1, 2.3, 4.1, 8.1 |
* Competencies by Professional Body
| CODE | COMPETENCY |
| International Union for Health Promotion and Education | |
| A.1 | Health as a human right, which is central to human development |
| A.2 | Respect for the rights, dignity, confidentiality and worth of individuals and groups |
| B.2 | The concepts of health equity, social justice and health as a human right as the basis for health promotion action |
| B.3 | The determinants of health and their implications for health promotion action |
| A.4 | Addressing health inequities, social injustice, and prioritising the needs of those experiencing poverty and social marginalisation |
| B.4 | The impact of social and cultural diversity on health and health inequities and the Implications for health promotion action |
| A.5 | Addressing the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, behavioural and biological determinants of health and wellbeing |
| 1.2 | Use health promotion approaches which support empowerment, participation, partnership and equity to create environments and settings which promote health |
| 2.1 | Use advocacy strategies and techniques which reflect health promotion principles |
| 2.3 | Raise awareness of and influence public opinion on health issues |
| 4.1 | Use effective communication skills including written, verbal, nonverbal, and listening skills |
| 4.2 | Use information technology and other media to receive and disseminate health promotion information |
| 4.3 | Use culturally appropriate communication methods and techniques for specific groups and settings |
| 6.4 | Identify the determinants of health which impact on health promotion action |
| 8.1 | Use ethical, empowering, culturally appropriate and participatory processes to implement health promotion action |
Am I eligible to enrol in this course?
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Pre-requisites
Enrolled in any postgraduate program
Co-requisites
Not applicable
Anti-requisites
Not applicable
Specific assumed prior knowledge and skills (where applicable)
Not applicable
How am I going to be assessed?
Grading Scale
Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Details of early feedback on progress
Formative feedback is provided on the skills required for assessment in applied activities throughout the course.
Assessment tasks
| 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 | Portfolio | Individual | 30% | 1000 words |
Refer to Format | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All | 2 | Written Piece | Individual | 35% | Visual representation and 750-word explanatory document |
Week 9 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All | 3 | Report | Individual | 35% | 3- minute (social justice media campaign) 2000 words (social justice media campaign brief) |
Week 13 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All - Assessment Task 1:Cultural safety critical reflection portfolio | |
| Goal: | To apply critical reflection skills and synthesise your understanding of key concepts studied and experiences of learning to develop cultural humility as a foundation for culturally safe practice as a health professional. |
| Product: | Portfolio |
| Format: | Critical self-reflection is an important lifelong professional skill that in this task will assist you to learn about, and practice cultural humility as a basis for culturally safe practice. In this individual assessment task, you will write 2 x 500-word critical reflection entries (weeks 3 & 6), using a structured reflection framework. Your critical reflections are a written narrative of your understanding of key concepts learnt in the course and reflection of how these new understandings will influence your culturally safe practice as health professionals working with Indigenous People. Additional details about the format for the structured critical self-reflection will be made available on Canvas. |
| Criteria: |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:Indigenous determinants of health | |
| Goal: | To apply skills for culturally appropriate communication to engage in a written discussion regarding decolonising Indigenous Peoples' health and wellbeing. |
| Product: | Written Piece |
| Format: | As part of decolonising Indigenous Peoples health and wellbeing, you will individually examine an Indigenous Peoples health and wellbeing priority, using a structured Indigenous determinants framework. The health and wellbeing priority offered for examination will be provided to you by the end of week 4. You are required to submit a visual representation and 750-word explanatory document . Additional details about the format for the visual representation and accompanying document will be made available on Canvas. |
| Criteria: |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Social justice advocacy project | |
| Goal: | To apply skills for social justice advocacy to address health and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples. |
| Product: | Report |
| Format: | You will draw on Indigenous perspectives and networks to design and develop a social justice advocacy media campaign to address an Indigenous People's health and wellbeing topic, using an advocacy framework. You will be required to develop a media campaign plan based on a project brief provided by your Course Coordinator/tutor. The campaign will aim to create awareness and influence behaviours, attitudes and opinions to address Indigenous People's health and wellbeing. The social justice advocacy campaign has two parts i) a written media campaign plan report; and ii) audio visual material for your digital media campaign. Additional details about the format will be made available on Canvas. |
| Criteria: |
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Directed study hours
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.
What resources do I need to undertake this course?
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.
Prescribed text(s) or course reader
Specific requirements
N/A
How are risks managed in this course?
What administrative information is relevant to this course?
Assessment: Academic Integrity
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.
Assessment: Additional Requirements
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% b. The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale c. You have not failed an assessment task in the course due to academic misconduct
Assessment: Submission penalties
Late submission of assessment tasks may be penalised at the following maximum rate: - 5% (of the assessment task's identified value) per day for the first two days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. - 10% (of the assessment task's identified value) for the third day - 20% (of the assessment task's identified value) for the fourth day and subsequent days up to and including seven days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. - A result of zero is awarded for an assessment task submitted after seven days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. Weekdays and weekends are included in the calculation of days late. To request an extension you must contact your course coordinator to negotiate an outcome.
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Study help
For help with course-specific advice, for example what information to include in your assessment, you should first contact your tutor, then your course coordinator, if needed.
If you require additional assistance, the Learning Advisers are trained professionals who are ready to help you develop a wide range of academic skills. Visit the Learning Advisers web page for more information, or contact Student Central for further assistance: +61 7 5430 2890 or studentcentral@usc.edu.au.
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