HSC2100 · Current health challenges

Overview

You will explore and develop the skills to understand and engage with complex contemporary health challenges in a local and global context. You will explore your position on today’s health challenges, uncovering your strengths and biases. Through class activities and assessments, you will develop and apply your critical thinking, investigation, negotiation and analysis skills to challenges that matter to you and your peers. Your understanding of different viewpoints and the causes of health challenges will be enhanced – equipping you to respond to health challenges personally and professionally. Examples of the challenges you could focus on include: planetary health, gender-based violence, food systems and security, health inequities, displacement of persons, mental health, addiction, ageing population, misinformation, and disease outbreaks.

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 and prioritise current health challenges.
2. Demonstrate how positionality influences interaction with health challenges.
3. Explore and apply diverse ways of thinking about health challenges.
4. Investigate and act on health challenges from the perspective of key stakeholders.
5. Analyse solutions to current health challenges.

Workload

1 hour lecture, 2 hour tutorial, 3 hours of directed online student learning activities, plus 6 hours of self-directed study per week.

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