Code
PUBH6036
Credits
50
Graduate Attributes
Using knowledge and skills acquired in their postgraduate studies, students will translate what they have learned into practice via this capstone experience. Students will engage in both individual and group-based work in partnership with industry. Using leadership, teamwork, research and critical thinking, students will consider sustainable approaches to address complex population health issues. Projects may include: a program plan or evaluation, policy analysis, extended rapid review, health impact assessment or data analysis, amongst others. The project will be practice-focused and supported by a range of online or face to face content, regular group meetings and an academic topic leader.
Block Teaching
37.5 Hours (5 Days) Once Only
Unit Learning Outcomes
- 1 articulate the processes and personal skills that enable effective functioning in population health practice
- 2 analyse evidence to define a population health problem/issue and determine appropriate action
- 3 communicate evidence in ways appropriate to a range of stakeholders
- 4 demonstrate collaborative ways of working in a substantial activity to address a complex population health challenge
Course Learning Outcomes
- 1 . apply sexological and relevant public health knowledge to protect, maintain and restore the health of communities
- 2 . synthesise and evaluate available evidence to inform decision making in the pursuit of innovative solutions in sexological public health settings
- 3 . locate, extract, interpret and assess relevant information from a range of sources and use it to support academic debate about and practical solutions to sexological issues
- 4 . communicate effectively with community members to promote understanding of sexological issues and disseminate sexological research to academic and professional audiences
- 5 . embrace appropriate technologies to enhance the production and dissemination of sexological knowledge and practice
- 6 . demonstrate an advanced level of independent and self-directed learning to enhance individual and collective professional development in the field of sexology
- 7 . incorporate international best practice into sexological public health practice
- 9 . work independently as a researcher and practitioner and function effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary or community team; collect and manage information ethically and apply ethical reasoning to sexological issues and practice
Assessment Breakdown