School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Addiction Studies: Social Action
  • Unit Code

    ADS3355
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Jason BRIGHT

Description

This unit examines the theory underpinning social actions that assist students to analyse a range of prevention strategies that have emerged to minimise alcohol, tobacco and other drug-related harms. In doing so, effective prevention initiatives are identified and examples of evidence-based real-world prevention projects are explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed ADS1151.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Advocate for policy change to prevent alcohol and other drug-related harms.
  2. Critically analyse the effectiveness of social action strategies in preventing alcohol and other drug-related harm.
  3. Apply social action strategies to prevent alcohol and other drug-related harm in the community.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis and implications of various definitions of prevention.
  2. Systems Theory.
  3. Australian drug policies.
  4. Influences on drug policy.
  5. Vulnerable populations as a target for social action strategies.
  6. Education as a prevention strategy.
  7. Social action in prisons.
  8. Social action in licensed premises.
  9. Minimising drug-related harm in the workplace.
  10. Minimising harm in drug-use environments.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students collaborate with fellow students to interpret alcohol and other drug-related harm prevention for families, schools and communities. Students apply their knowledge of evidence-based population efforts to reduce alcohol and other drug-related harms. Students are required to apply theoretical knowledge to advocate for social action using current communication methods.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyAlcohol and other drug advocacy20%
EssaySocial action prevention initiative40%
PresentationPrevention of alcohol and other drug-related harm40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Addiction Studies: Social Action
  • Unit Code

    ADS3355
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Jason BRIGHT

Description

This unit examines the theory underpinning social actions that assist students to analyse a range of prevention strategies that have emerged to minimise alcohol, tobacco and other drug-related harms. In doing so, effective prevention initiatives are identified and examples of evidence-based real-world prevention projects are explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed ADS1151.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Advocate for policy change to prevent alcohol and other drug-related harms.
  2. Critically analyse the effectiveness of social action strategies in preventing alcohol and other drug-related harm.
  3. Apply social action strategies to prevent alcohol and other drug-related harm in the community.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis and implications of various definitions of prevention.
  2. Systems Theory.
  3. Australian drug policies.
  4. Influences on drug policy.
  5. Vulnerable populations as a target for social action strategies.
  6. Education as a prevention strategy.
  7. Social action in prisons.
  8. Social action in licensed premises.
  9. Minimising drug-related harm in the workplace.
  10. Minimising harm in drug-use environments.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students collaborate with fellow students to interpret alcohol and other drug-related harm prevention for families, schools and communities. Students apply their knowledge of evidence-based population efforts to reduce alcohol and other drug-related harms. Students are required to apply theoretical knowledge to advocate for social action using current communication methods.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyAlcohol and other drug advocacy20%
EssaySocial action prevention initiative40%
PresentationPrevention of alcohol and other drug-related harm40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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