Health Communication
Semester 2, 2020 unit of study availability
Some Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences units of study originally intended to run in Semester 2, 2020 are no longer available.
A full and up-to-date list of units of study available in Semester 2, 2020 from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, can be found on this webpage.
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Health Communication |
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Master of Health Communication |
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| Students complete 72 credit points, including: | |||
| (a) a minimum of 24 credit points of core units of study; and | |||
| (b) a maximum of 42 credit points from elective units of study | |||
| (i) with the permission of the Degree Coordinator a maximum of 12 credit points can be taken as elective units from units of study outside those listed in the table, including: | |||
| (ii) a maximum of 6 credit points from units of study offered by other faculties. | |||
Graduate Diploma in Health Communication |
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| Students complete 48 credit points, including: | |||
| (a) a minimum of 24 credit points of core units of study; and | |||
| (b) a maximum of 24 credit points from elective units of study | |||
| (i) with the permission of the Degree Coordinator a maximum of 6 credit points can be taken as elective units from units of study outside those listed in the table | |||
Graduate Certificate in Health Communication |
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| Students complete 24 credit points, including: | |||
| (a) a minimum of 12 credit points of core units of study; and | |||
| (b) a maximum of 12 credit points from elective units of study. | |||
Core |
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| MECO6909 Crisis Communication |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MECO6919 Health Communication |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MECO6927 Organisational Communication |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MECO6934 Social Issues Marketing |
6 | Semester 2 |
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Capstone |
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| MECO6904 Dissertation Part 1 |
6 | P 24 credit points from Digital Communication & Cultures or Media Practice or Health Communication or Strategic Public Relations or Publishing degree tables C MECO6939 N MECO6928 or MECO6935 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MECO6905 Dissertation Part 2 |
6 | P 48 credit points, including MECO6904 from Digital Communication & Cultures or Media Practice or Health Communication or Strategic Public Relations or Publishing degree tables N MECO6928 or MECO6935 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MECO6928 Media and Communication Internship |
6 | P 48 credit points from Digital Communication & Cultures or Media Practice or Health Communication or Strategic Public Relations or Publishing degree tables N MECO6904 or MECO6905 or MECO6935 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive December Intensive June Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MECO6935 Professional Project |
6 | P 48 credit points from Digital Communication & Cultures or Media Practice or Health Communication or Strategic Public Relations or Publishing degree tables N MECO6904 or MECO6905 or MECO6928 or MECO6939 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| MECO6932 Advanced Media Project |
6 | P 48 credit points including MECO6900 and (MECO6924 or MECO6925 or MECO6941) N MECO6928 or MECO6904 or MECO6905 or MECO6935 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Open to Masters' students only |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
Elective |
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| ARIN6902 Internet Cultures and Governance |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ARIN6903 Digital Media and Society |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ARIN6905 New Media Audiences |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| BETH5203 Ethics and Public Health |
6 | N BETH5206 If an insufficient number of students opt to attend intensives on campus, the coordinator may choose to teach this unit of study in online mode only. Students will be contacted if this occurs. |
Semester 2 |
| BETH5206 Introduction to Public Health Ethics This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
2 | N BETH5203 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma or Master of Public Health may choose to take BETH5203 (6CP) instead of BETH5206 (2CP). This unit is available to Master of Public Health (MPH) students only. |
Semester 2a |
| BETH5207 Creativity and Creative Arts in Health This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| BETH5209 Medicines Policy, Economics and Ethics |
6 | A A degree in science, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, allied health, philosophy/ethics, sociology/anthropology, history, law, communications, public policy, business, economics, commerce, organisation studies, or other relevant field, or by special permission. |
Semester 2 |
| CISS6004 Health and Security |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| DVST6906 Culture, Gender, Health in Development |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| EDPK5003 Developing a Research Project |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| GCST5910 Health, Pleasure and Consumption |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| GLOH5112 Global Communicable Disease Control |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| GLOH5115 Women's and Children's Health |
6 | N MIPH5115 |
Semester 1 |
| GLOH5124 Humanitarian Crises and Refugee Health |
6 | N MIPH5124 |
Intensive October |
| HPOL5000 Health Policy and Health Economics |
6 | N PUBH5032 |
Semester 1 |
| HPOL5003 Analysing Health Policy |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| HPOL5007 Global Health Policy |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| LAWS6052 Govt Regulation, Health Policy and Ethics |
6 |
MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. Academic Profile https://sydney.edu.au/law/about/people/list.php. The unit is also available on a Continuing Professional Development basis https://sydney.edu.au/law/study-law/continuing-professional-development.html |
Intensive October |
| LAWS6839 Critical Issues in Public Health Law This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 |
MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252 or LAWS6881. Academic Profile https://sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people.html. The unit is also available on a Continuing Professional Development basis https://sydney.edu.au/law/cpd/ |
Intensive May |
| LAWS6848 Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles |
6 |
For 2020 only, this unit will be a substitute for the MHL core units, LAWS6058 Information Rights in Health Care or LAWS6839 Critical Issues in Public Health Law. Academic Profile https://sydney.edu.au/law/about/people/list.php. The unit is also available on a Continuing Professional Development basis https://sydney.edu.au/law/study-law/continuing-professional-development.html |
Intensive April |
| LNGS7002 Language, Society and Power |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| LNGS7006 Cross-Cultural Communication |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| LNGS7504 Medical Discourse This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MECO6900 News Writing |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| MECO6901 Media Relations |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MECO6908 Strategy Selection in Corporate PR |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MECO6915 Writing Features: Narrative Journalism |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MECO6926 International Media Practice |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| MECO6936 Social Media Communication |
6 | Semester 1a Semester 2a |
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| MECO6939 Research Methods |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MECO6940 Theoretical Traditions and Innovations |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MECO6941 Podcasting |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MECO6942 Managing Social Media Communities |
6 | Intensive January Intensive July |
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| MIPH5135 Health Systems in Developing Countries This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
4 | Semester 2 |
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| NURS5099 Promoting Health and Care in the Community |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5010 Epidemiology Methods and Uses |
6 | N BSTA5011 or CEPI5100 |
Semester 1 |
| PUBH5018 Introductory Biostatistics |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PUBH5026 Mass Media Campaigns and Social Marketing This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
2 | A Training in research methods epidemiology is advised but not essential. P PUBH5033 |
Intensive August |
| PUBH5027 Public Health Program Evaluation Methods This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
2 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5032 Making Decisions in Public Health This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
2 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| PUBH5033 Disease Prevention and Health Promotion |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PUBH5120 Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Health |
6 | N PUBH5118 |
Semester 2 |
| PUBH5121 Environmental Health |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5126 Genetics and Public Health This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | A Basic epidemiology. No previous knowledge of genetics is required. P Epidemiology Methods and Uses (PUBH5010) |
Intensive October |
| PUBH5145 Alcohol, drug use and health |
6 | N PUBH5114 or PUBH5115 |
Semester 1 |
| PUBH5205 Decision Analysis This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
2 | A PUBH5302 Health Economic Evaluation P PUBH5018 and (PUBH5010 or CEPI5100) |
Semester 2 Semester 2b |
| PUBH5416 Vaccines in Public Health This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
2 | P PUBH5010 or CEPI5100 or PUBH5018 Students who have not done the core units of study in epidemiology (PUBH5010 or CEPI5100) or biostatistics (PUBH5018) but have previous demonstrable experience in these study areas will be required to request permission from the unit of study coordinator to enrol in this unit of study. Permission is required to ensure that students have a basic grounding in epidemiology and biostatistics. The coordinator emails the Postgraduate Student Administration Unit to advise whether or not the student has permission to enrol. |
Semester 2 |
| PUBH5418 Tobacco Control in the 21st Century |
6 | Intensive August |
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| PUBH5422 Health and Risk Communication This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| PUBH5430 Public Health Advocacy |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| PUBH5500 Advanced Qualitative Health Research This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | N QUAL5005 or QUAL5006 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| PUBH5505 Qualitative Research in Health |
6 | N PUBH5500 or QUAL5005 or QUAL5006 |
Semester 2 |
| SCLG6902 Ethics of Social Research This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | N SCLG3003 |
Semester 1 |
| SCWK6910 Working with Communities This unit of study is not available in 2020 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| SEXH5008 Sex and Society |
2 | N SEXH5414 |
Semester 2a |
| SEXH5410 Sexual Health Promotion |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| Students are advised to consult the Degree Director before enrolling in the units below. | |||
| FASS7001 Academic English for Postgraduates |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| FASS7002 Critical Thinking and Persuasive Writing |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| WRIT6000 Professional Writing |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| WRIT6001 Professional Editing |
6 | Semester 1 |
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