HSO733 - Occupational Participation in the Community
| Year: | 2026 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Not offered until Trimester 1 2027 |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in H766 |
| Prerequisite: | HSO730, HSO731, IND734, HSH725 |
| Corequisite: | HSO734 |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | This unit is run as a six-week intensive block:
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Content
In this unit, students will explore enabling occupational participation, health, and wellbeing at the community level, through anti-oppressive and decolonial lens. Students will engage with principles of co-design and community-engaged practice, emphasising collaboration with communities as equal partners. The unit encourages critical reflection on power, positionality, and systemic inequities, such as racism, colonialism, ableism, and socioeconomic oppression, and how these forces shape occupational opportunities and health outcomes. Students will learn to navigate and challenge structural barriers that impact communities, recognising and valuing diverse forms of knowledge and leadership. Key topics include: community engagement and partnership building; critical analysis of systemic and structural determinants of health and participation; principles and processes of co-design that centre community leadership; collaborative project scoping and planning driven by community-identified priorities; reflective practices for navigating power imbalances within teams and partnerships; project management that considers equity and accountability; and evaluation and dissemination of project outcomes in ways that honour community voices and agency. Through this unit, students will develop the skills and critical awareness needed to work in solidarity with communities, supporting their self-determined goals while actively resisting the reproduction of systemic inequities within occupational therapy and broader health systems.
Unit fee information
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