HSH704 - Health Communication

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

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
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.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

3 hours per week comprising 1 hour weekly lecture (recorded and accessible online)
2 hour weekly on-campus seminar

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

3 hours per week comprising 1 hour weekly lecture (recorded and accessible online) and
2 hour weekly online seminar 

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
ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
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
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO2

Demonstrate a range of communication skills and strategies in an effective and coherent manner to engage specialist and non-specialist audiences

GLO2:Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy

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
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO8: Global citizenship

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

Assessment task 1: Assignment 1

1250 words equivalent per student

25%

  • Weeks 3, 6

Assessment task 2: Assignment 2

1250 words equivalent per student

25%

  • Week 11

Assessment task 3: Assignment 3

2500 words equivalent per student

50%

  • Refer to unit site

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 the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HSH704 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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