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School: Education

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

    Physical Activity, Body, Culture and Identity

  • Unit Code

    HPE2112

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Andrew Charles JONES

Description

This unit introduces students to the sociocultural foundations of health and physical education by socio-critically examining constructions of physical activity, the body, culture and identity in contemporary society. Through a comprehensive exploration of history, philosophy and sociological theory students in this unit contemplate the HPE teacher’s privileged position as creator, constructor and enactor of knowledge and understandings in health education and physical education. Students learn that personal, cultural and contextual factors shape and impact safer, healthier and more active living. Through reflective practice, research and collaboration with others, this unit prepares students with understandings to support and strengthen the health and wellbeing of young people in Australian schools.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Think critically as to how human movement can be studied and understood through the 'lenses' provided by the social sciences.
  2. Use sociocultural research in studies of selected physical activities to improve inclusive practice in Health and Physical Education (HPE).
  3. Explore research methods employed in sociocultural research to contextualise inclusivity and diversity in HPE.
  4. Apply critical and structured thinking to the notion of the body in culture.
  5. Analyse the changed forms and significance of physical activity as a cultural practice throughout history.
  6. Position schools, gyms, sports, the media and other cultural players, locally and globally as ideological work focusing on physical activity and the body.
  7. Contribute to discussions as to how individuals' pursuits in selected areas such as aerobics, weight training, eastern movement forms and martial arts affect personal meaning.

Unit Content

  1. Sociocultural health and physical education.
  2. Introductory social theory - barriers, challenges and opportunities.
  3. Identity, social class, culture and health.
  4. Physical activity and health.
  5. Body image and health.
  6. Contemporary health inquiry (selected issue).

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 214 x 2 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, practical sessions, student presentations and web-managed instruction.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioContemporary health inquiry60%
AssignmentStudent reflections40%

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: Education

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

    Physical Activity, Body, Culture and Identity

  • Unit Code

    HPE2112

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Andrew Charles JONES

Description

This unit introduces students to the sociocultural foundations of health and physical education by socio-critically examining constructions of physical activity, the body, culture and identity in contemporary society. Through a comprehensive exploration of history, philosophy and sociological theory students in this unit contemplate the HPE teacher’s privileged position as creator, constructor and enactor of knowledge and understandings in health education and physical education. Students learn that personal, cultural and contextual factors shape and impact safer, healthier and more active living. Through reflective practice, research and collaboration with others, this unit prepares students with understandings to support and strengthen the health and wellbeing of young people in Australian schools.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Think critically as to how human movement can be studied and understood through the 'lenses' provided by the social sciences.
  2. Use sociocultural research in studies of selected physical activities to improve inclusive practice in Health and Physical Education (HPE).
  3. Explore research methods employed in sociocultural research to contextualise inclusivity and diversity in HPE.
  4. Apply critical and structured thinking to the notion of the body in culture.
  5. Analyse the changed forms and significance of physical activity as a cultural practice throughout history.
  6. Position schools, gyms, sports, the media and other cultural players, locally and globally as ideological work focusing on physical activity and the body.
  7. Contribute to discussions as to how individuals' pursuits in selected areas such as aerobics, weight training, eastern movement forms and martial arts affect personal meaning.

Unit Content

  1. Sociocultural health and physical education.
  2. Introductory social theory - barriers, challenges and opportunities.
  3. Identity, social class, culture and health.
  4. Physical activity and health.
  5. Body image and health.
  6. Contemporary health inquiry (selected issue).

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 214 x 2 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, practical sessions, student presentations and web-managed instruction.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioContemporary health inquiry60%
AssignmentStudent reflections40%

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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