School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Midwifery Cultural Studies
  • Unit Code

    MID6104
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kylie MCCULLOUGH

Description

This unit examines health, wellness, illness and culture. The focus is socio-cultural aspects of health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Students will identify strategies to promote the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to practice culturally sensitive care during the childbearing period.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

On campus one day workshop

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse the historical, cultural and social factors that have an impact on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  2. Evaluate the impact of health care and maternity care policy and initiatives on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  3. Evaluate the provision of maternity care and other health services and resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and make recommendations to improve their experiences during care.
  4. Analyse and apply the concepts of Cultural Safety and cultural competence for midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Unit Content

  1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and society.
  2. Historical determinants of health and well-being for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  3. Cultural determinants of health, wellness and illness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  4. Social determinants of health, wellness and illness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  5. Australian health care policy and its impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  6. Australian maternity care policy and its impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  7. Maternity services and resources for childbearing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their families.
  8. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services.
  9. The meaning of Cultural Safety and security for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  10. Providing culturally safe and secure midwifery care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 1: connecting with women and their families.
  11. Providing culturally safe and secure midwifery care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2: supporting women and their families.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

On campus one day workshop and online tutorials

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
Reflective PracticeWritten reflection30%
AssignmentOnline learning package 30%
PresentationIndividual recorded presentation of midwifery specific topic40%

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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