HSH704 - Health Communication
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Community Based Delivery (CBD)*, Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Emily Denniss |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 3 hours per week comprising 1 hour weekly lecture (recorded and accessible online) |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 3 hours per week comprising 1 hour weekly lecture (recorded and accessible online) and |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Note:*National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute students only |
Content
Topics include:
- functional and strategic communication
- health communication presentation skills and strategies
- working with the media
- social media and health
- social marketing campaigns
- communication and behaviour change concepts, models and theories
- health education and empowerment
- stakeholder engagement
- health advocacy and activism
- the role of communication in partnerships for health
- the role of communication in capacity building and change management
- communication styles when working in teams
Learning Outcomes
ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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ULO1 | Analyse, apply and evaluate advanced and integrated health communication theory and practice within local and global health contexts | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Demonstrate a range of communication skills and strategies in an effective and coherent manner to engage specialist and non-specialist audiences | GLO2:Communication |
ULO3 | Demonstrate capacity to create health communication resources suited for distribution through a range of channels in local and global health contexts | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO4 | Apply teamwork, leadership and management skills and principles to working effectively in a team environment | GLO7: Teamwork |
Assessment
Trimester 1:Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment task 1: Assignment 1 | 1250 words equivalent per student | 25% |
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Assessment task 2: Assignment 2 | 1250 words equivalent per student | 25% |
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Assessment task 3: Assignment 3 | 2500 words equivalent per student | 50% |
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The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for HSH704 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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