SHN7062 - The Healthy Environment

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Appraise the range of ways in which our physical environment affects our physical and mental health.
Evaluate the effectiveness of health interventions that utilise environmental change in Western society.
Critically discuss the role of culture and tradition in relation to health-related habits and practices.
Understand the relationship between health interventions that utilise environmental change, sustainability and greening.
Critically evaluate research addressing the healthy environment and issues of diversity and disability.

Content:

Students appraise a range of ways in which physical and social environment affects health, including but not limited to exercise, diet and weight related outcomes across the lifespan. They evaluate the effectiveness of health interventions that utilise environmental change. They discuss the role of culture and tradition in relation to health, and they evaluate research addressing environmental change, sustainability, greening and diversity/disability.

Learning and Teaching Information:

The module will be delivered using a mixture of face-to-face intensive lectures and seminars, supported with e-learning tasks. Student learning will be supported and evaluated through completion of interactive forums, web based seminars and individual and group tutorials. A series of tasks assesses this module. There will be one formative assessment task and one summative assessment task. Learning tasks/topics will be posted fortnightly (six in total).

Lectures/seminars
Hours: 2
Intended Group size: Cohort

On-line 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 tutorials
Hours: 1

Guided independent study
Hours: 144

Further details relating to assessment
Firstly, students will produce a poster which critically appraises literature investigating the association between the environment and a health outcome or behaviour. Secondly, students will provide an essay which debates the contribution to health and behaviour of the environment versus individual behaviour change.

Assessment:

001 Poster; 2,000 words equiv.; mid-semester 1 50%
002 Essay; 2,000 words; end of semester 1 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Philip McDonald
Level - 7
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 7PGS1

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