ATS3968 · Health humanities professional practice

Overview

You are placed as an intern with a host partner organisation and complete either a unique research project or work experience-based project jointly defined by the host partner organisation and the unit coordinator. Monash Arts partners with organisations across a diverse range of industries and sectors, including aged and disability services, arts organisations, community, women’s and multicultural services, hospitals, medical associations, research institutes, and medical libraries and museums. You will be carefully matched to a placement that will allow you to further strengthen specific thematic knowledge or methodological skills you have developed during the major. The main component of the unit involves you undertaking a minimum of 77 hours equivalent of placement in order to complete a final project agreed upon between the host partner organisation and the Faculty. The host partner organisation provides field supervision and the Faculty provides academic supervision.

Areas of study: Health humanities

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. demonstrate having applied knowledge of medical and health humanities in a workplace setting;
2. demonstrate critical and reflective thinking in relation to professional development;
3. communicate your professional development progress, achievements and planning clearly and concisely;
4. prepare documentation and written reports in accordance with professional standards.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.