SHN7022 - Contemporary Issues for Specific Populations

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Understand and critically appraise the complexity of health and wellbeing needs for diverse populations.
Design and justify an innovative intervention related to populations with a specific need.
Critically appraise the attitudes towards diverse populations, and policies and practices across different societies and cultures.
Demonstrate understanding and application of research tools and effective communication methods in intervention design for diverse groups.

Content:

This module includes appraising attitudes towards diverse groups and appraising the policies and practices across different societies and cultures. Students on the module will develop an understanding of the complexity of health and wellbeing needs for diverse populations, along with critical appraisal of the responses to these needs. The module requires students to design and justify an innovative intervention related to populations with specific needs, using appropriate research tools.

Learning and Teaching Information:

The module will be taught using a blended learning approach involving an intensive face-to-face contact phase of lectures and workshops, followed by a distance learning phase involving engagement with on-line tasks such as reading, problem solving and discussion forums. This module provides students with the opportunity to focus the content on a specific population of interest, such as migrant communities, men, populations with disabilities, ex-offenders and substance abusers. This enables both staff and student led content to be included in the module. Individual student support will be provided through email, telephone and skype tutorials.

Lectures/workshops
Hours: 2
Intended Group Size: Cohort

On- line and e-learning tasks
Hours: 50 (5h per week x 10 weeks)
Intended Group Size: 1

On-line seminars/web based seminars
Hours: 3
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Individual tutorial
Hours: 1

Guided independent study
Hours: 144

Further details relating to assessment

Presentation
The presentation format will be negotiated to that which is relevant to the topic and preferred by the student; this could include a poster, PowerPoint, infographic, podcast or video for example. The students will present the design and justification of their intervention and discuss the research tools used for their chosen population.

Report
The report will be a written piece of work to evaluate the intervention used.

Assessment:

001 Presentation; 2,000 words equiv.; mid-semester 2 50%
002 Report; 2,000 words; end of semester 2 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Catherine Rowlands
Level - 7
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 7PGS2

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