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2025 unit information
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
Nil
1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week
1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided)
1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
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.
*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus)
This unit involves an exploration of health across multiple dimensions. It examines the social forces that shape health and well-being, the assumptions underpinning health policy and practice, and their implications for public health. The unit includes a focus on the social patterns of health and illness, which involves describing and explaining the differences between major social groups. The unit also addresses social groups in healthcare, focussing on the development and current roles of several major occupational groups in the healthcare system. Social issues in healthcare, which provides a sociological perspective on a range of pressing health issues, is also a focus of this unit
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
Demonstrate up-to-date, coherent basic knowledge of the sociology of health and illness
Appreciate the broader social factors that contribute to health outcomes and healthcare delivery
Demonstrate an ability for critical thinking and analysis in understanding health and illness
GLO5: Problem solving
Use information technology skills to collect relevant information
GLO3: Digital literacy
Demonstrate a high standard of oral and written communication about health
GLO2: Communication
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.
The texts and reading list for ASC206 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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