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485-228 Health and Environmental Studies B

Credit points: 33.3

Coordinator: To be advised.

Prerequisite: Health & Environmental Studies A or approved equivalent.

Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 3-hour practical session each week, including laboratories, gymnasium activities, outdoor settings, or other equivalent activities, e. g. excursions, resource centre visits.

Timetable: Double semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• demonstrate knowledge and skills required for specialist work in health and environmental studies;
• demonstrate an understanding of skill development, safety and challenge in outdoor education;
• understand the nature, manufacture and usage of chemicals in the environment;
• understand the theoretical bases of human movement as expressed in exercise physiology, biomechanics and skill acquisition;
• understand the role of microbes in the environment and their effect on health and industry; and
• develop a deeper understanding of their own sexuality and that of other people and understand current issues associated with sexual health.

Content:

Integrated studies of human sexuality and sexual health, movement science, outdoor education, health and the immune system; a study of the environment in which humans live; risk management, chemicals (e. g. food manufacture, rocks, crystals, mining processes, effects of chemicals such as mercury and lead), microbes (industrial, promoting/impeding health), socio-economic factors and health.

Assessment:

Four major essays or assignments of 2,000 words each (70 per cent); two 1-hour tests (20 per cent) and several short tests totalling 2-hours (10 per cent).

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus) (Volume 5 page 120)

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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