Unit Synopsis
You will build on the Foundations of First Nations Peoples and Communities Wellbeing in Public Health unit by focusing on how to design, evaluate, and advocate for health improvement strategies that reflect community values. You will work with Indigenous governance models, policy frameworks, and co-generated knowledge. Through applied learning and collaborative inquiry, you will strengthen your skills in relational ethics, leadership, and community-led health systems transformation.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 8 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Co-requisite: PBHL20007 Foundations of First Nations Peoples and Communities Wellbeing in Public Health. Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 30% |
| 2. Group Work | 40% |
| 3. Written Assessment | 30% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site.
Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 83.33% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 18.18% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Classroom interactions
Placement opportunity in health and community sectors to gain practical experiences.
Explore possibilities for industry collaboration to initiate learning opportunities for students.
Industry experts from the health sector were invited to deliver lectures.
Source: Student evaluation
More contents in Moodle.
Provide additional learning materials related to the topic in the Moodle.
Case studies added in the Moodle site.
Source: SUTE
More examples from different countries and communities about health promotion practice.
This unit is a teach-out, so no changes are required. However, this feedback will be considered for other units.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Develop collaborative approaches in effective cross-cultural relationships in public health contexts, with attention to relational ethics and accountability
- Formulate benefits and challenges in community engagement in cross-cultural contexts, including implications for culturally responsive strategies
- Evaluate the processes and impacts of cogenerating knowledge in cross-cultural contexts, including Indigenous governance and evidence frameworks
- Reflect critically on experiences of simulated community engagement, including professional positioning in culturally diverse practice settings
- Design culturally safe, community-led approaches to public health systems transformation.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Group Work | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | |||
| 2 - Communication | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | |||
| 4 - Research | • | • | |||
| 5 - Self-management | • | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • • | • | • | • | • |
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | • | ||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |