Course Coordinator:Kara Lilly (klilly@usc.edu.au) School:School of Health - Public Health
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
This course focuses on contemporary professional practice, project management and employability qualities in health promotion. In this course you will reflect on the competencies required in professional practice and apply expert knowledge and ethical judgement to explore new and emerging health promotion priorities. You will reflect on your own professional identity through the exploration of contemporary priorities in the discipline of health promotion, culminating in a personalised, professional practice and development plan.
Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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Online – 3 hours of structured asynchronous online learning activities and an optional 1-hour online Zoom consultation session | 4hrs | Week 1 | 13 times |
700 Level (Specialised)
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 | Apply expert and specialised project management skills in a health promotion discipline context. |
Empowered Engaged |
B.7, 5.5, 7.3, 8.3 |
2 | Appraise contemporary health promotion priorities and professional practice developments. | Sustainability-focussed |
B, A.10, A.11, 5.4 |
3 | Critically reflect on the application of professional competencies and employability qualities in health promotion. |
Ethical Sustainability-focussed |
A.7, A.11, 5.4 |
CODE | COMPETENCY |
International Union for Health Promotion and Education | |
B | Knowledge Base Underpinning Health Promotion Core Competencies |
B.7 | The current models and approaches of effective project and programme management (including needs assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation) and their application to health promotion action |
A.7 | Being honest about what health promotion is, and what it can and cannot achieve |
A.10 | Sustainable development and sustainable health promotion action |
A.11 | Being accountable for the quality of one's own practice and taking responsibility for maintaining and improving knowledge and skills |
5.4 | Incorporate new knowledge to improve practice and respond to emerging challenges in health promotion |
5.5 | Contribute to mobilising and managing resources for health promotion action |
7.3 | Develop a feasible action plan within resource constraints and with reference to existing needs and assets |
8.3 | Manage the resources needed for effective implementation of planned action |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
PUB702 and PUB705 and enrolled in SC713
Not applicable
PUB700 Health Promotion Project
Not applicable
Standard Grading (GRD)
High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Formative feedback tasks, aligned specifically to assessment criteria in Task 1, will be integrated into applied learning materials in weeks 1-4.
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 | 1a | Case Study | Individual | 30% | Available for one week. |
Week 4 | Online Submission |
All | 1b | Artefact - Professional | Individual | 20% | 500 words |
Week 5 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All | 2 | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | Individual | 50% | 2000 words |
Week 13 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All - Assessment Task 1a:Project management scenario: Case study | ||||||||||
Goal: | To demonstrate the application of project management concepts, roles, and responsibilities in a given health promotion context. |
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Product: | Case Study | |||||||||
Format: | Online test via Canvas |
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Generic Skills: | Problem solving |
All - Assessment Task 1b:Project Management Scenario: Completion Report | ||||||||||
Goal: | To compile a completion report for the given project scenario in the case study explored in Task 1a. |
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Product: | Artefact - Professional | |||||||||
Format: | Written report, completion of template (provided) |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving |
All - Assessment Task 2:Professional health promotion reflection | ||||||||||||||||
Goal: | To reflect on emerging health promotion practice priorities and plan for ongoing professional development to maintain currency in the field. |
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Product: | Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece | |||||||||||||||
Format: | Written critical reflection and professional development plan. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation, Applying technologies |
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.
Internet access and personal computer.
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.
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