EDF3092 · Contemporary youth health issues

Overview

This unit is the third of four health discipline units in this course. This unit develops and enhances your specific health-related knowledge, skills, pedagogies and capabilities. Focusing on creating safe and supportive environments, the unit explores contemporary youth health issues, popular culture, media, and digital health literacy. It provides a strong foundation for teaching health education in various contexts and settings. As a discipline unit its central feature is its focus on and exploration of contemporary priority youth health issues of importance in society, young people, and schooling, for example, the role of the media and digital media health literacy; sex, genders, sexualities and sexual health; and respectful relationships and consent education. To sensitively address these issues the unit takes a strengths-based approach that is strongly research and theory driven, and inclusive of contemporary approaches and practices needed for educating young people in today’s complex and ever-changing society.

Offerings

Assessment

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

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. identify, explain and exhibit accurate health knowledge in relation to a number of contemporary youth health issues
2. apply critical media literacy and health literacy skills when exploring and analysing a variety of digital and other media texts of relevance to the health of young people in contemporary society
3. research, access and evaluate information and resources of relevance to contemporary youth health issues as well as personal and professional practice
4. engage with, investigate and reflect upon a number of contemporary and emerging issues of relevance to health education and the health of young people
5. critically examine, propose and create educational resources that meet the contemporary health needs of young people and support future professional practice
6. communicate ideas using a range of verbal and nonverbal communication strategies and collaborative techniques.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

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