HSO736 - Changing Systems to Enhance Occupational Participation

Year:

2026 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Not offered until Trimester 2 2027

Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Cohort rule: This unit is only available to students enrolled in H766
Prerequisite:

HSO733

Corequisite:

HSO737

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:

  • 2 x 2-hour weekly lectures delivered on-campus for six weeks
  • 2 x 2-hour weekly seminars delivered on-campus for six weeks
  • Online independent and collaborative learning activities delivered for six weeks.

Content

In this unit, students will learn how to critically examine the role of occupational therapy in reproducing or challenging systems of oppression, including White supremacy, colonialism, systemic racism, and ableism, within health, social, and community services. Students will engage with the politics of knowledge, power, and positionality, interrogating how whiteness and dominant professional norms shape occupational practices and marginalise other ways of knowing and being. Through collaborative, reflexive, and justice-oriented approaches, students will develop strategies to lead occupation-focused systems change that centres anti-racism, decoloniality, disability justice, and the right to equitable occupational participation across diverse communities.

Unit fee information

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