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.

  • Unit Title

    Healthy Ageing
  • Unit Code

    HST3101
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Anne TRENT

Description

In this unit students investigate the social context to ageing and health. Local and international case studies and relevant research are used to investigate gendered health issues and the process of healthy ageing for men and women. Students examine the emergence and application of women's and men's health philosophies to contemporary health promotion, and consider links between gender and health amongst culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and differing socioeconomic groups. Assessments allow students from a variety of major and minor degree programs to undertake a project in areas relevant to their studies, and to develop creative approaches to health promotion and social policy relating to health and ageing. This unit is essential for students who wish to gain deeper insights into promoting men's and women's health, in the context of an ageing Australian population.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST3213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate with colleagues to critically appraise contemporary issues in healthy ageing
  2. Evaluate the effectiveness of healthy ageing health promotion activities
  3. Create recommendations for improvement to healthy ageing health promotion initiatives
  4. Analyse personal perspectives, abilities and behaviours using self-reflective practices

Unit Content

  1. Historical narratives about gender and health.
  2. The impact of gendered roles and lifestyles on men's and women's health.
  3. The social construction of ageing: Stereotypes, sexuality and identity.
  4. Risk and enabling factors for culturally and linguistically diverse and differing socioeconomic groups.
  5. Social action, collaboration, advocacy and policy to promote healthy ageing at the local, national and international level.
  6. Evaluation of health promotion projects for specific population groups.
  7. Contemporary challenges and ethical considerations relevant to an ageing population.
  8. Death and dying.

Learning Experience

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

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
ExerciseHealthy ageing critical appraisal40%
Reflective PracticePersonal capabilities and ideas10%
ProjectHealthy ageing report and infographic50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseHealthy ageing critical appraisal40%
Reflective PracticePersonal capabilities and ideas10%
ProjectHealthy ageing report and infographic50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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.

  • Unit Title

    Healthy Ageing
  • Unit Code

    HST3101
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Anne TRENT

Description

In this unit students investigate the social context to ageing and health. Local and international case studies and relevant research are used to investigate gendered health issues and the process of healthy ageing for men and women. Students examine the emergence and application of women's and men's health philosophies to contemporary health promotion, and consider links between gender and health amongst culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and differing socioeconomic groups. Assessments allow students from a variety of major and minor degree programs to undertake a project in areas relevant to their studies, and to develop creative approaches to health promotion and social policy relating to health and ageing. This unit is essential for students who wish to gain deeper insights into promoting men's and women's health, in the context of an ageing Australian population.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST3213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate with colleagues to critically appraise contemporary issues in healthy ageing
  2. Evaluate the effectiveness of healthy ageing health promotion activities
  3. Create recommendations for improvement to healthy ageing health promotion initiatives
  4. Analyse personal perspectives, abilities and behaviours using self-reflective practices

Unit Content

  1. Historical narratives about gender and health.
  2. The impact of gendered roles and lifestyles on men's and women's health.
  3. The social construction of ageing: Stereotypes, sexuality and identity.
  4. Risk and enabling factors for culturally and linguistically diverse and differing socioeconomic groups.
  5. Social action, collaboration, advocacy and policy to promote healthy ageing at the local, national and international level.
  6. Evaluation of health promotion projects for specific population groups.
  7. Contemporary challenges and ethical considerations relevant to an ageing population.
  8. Death and dying.

Learning Experience

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

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
ExerciseHealthy ageing critical appraisal40%
Reflective PracticePersonal capabilities and ideas10%
ProjectHealthy ageing report and infographic50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseHealthy ageing critical appraisal40%
Reflective PracticePersonal capabilities and ideas10%
ProjectHealthy ageing report and infographic50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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