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PUBH5134: Public Health Capstone

This unit provides students with an opportunity to draw together and integrate their learning in the four key aspects of public health as reflected in their degree program - knowledge, values, actions and outcomes - and apply these to a project. The key aim is for students to undertake the sort of set of tasks they are likely to be required to do during their public health career - undertake a project, prepare a summary of it and communicate their findings to a knowledgeable but not expert audience. Students will undertake a focused assessment on a public health topic. This may be as part of a practical public health project or on area investigated primarily for the purposes of the capstone unit. The work will culminate in a presentation of the work at a School seminar attended by other capstone unit students and School academics, or the on-line equivalent of this. The projects will be identified by the unit coordinators; students will be able to choose from these projects depending on availability and suitability.

Code PUBH5134
Academic unit Public Health
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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PUBH5010 AND (PUBH5018 OR FMHU5002) AND (FMHU5003 OR PUBH5505 OR BACH5255 OR QUAL5005) AND HPOL5000 AND PUBH5033 AND PUBH5036
Prohibitions:
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PUBH5034

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Apply knowledge and skills to an authentic work-related task in public health
  • LO2. Write a detailed report or other deliverable that meets the project’s requirements
  • LO3. Write a succinct and persuasive conference abstract
  • LO4. Deliver a succinct and persuasive conference presentation
  • LO5. Work independently and engage in self-directed learning
  • LO6. Provide support to team members as appropriate.