Health Promotion Principles PG (11924.2)

Please note these are the 2025 details for this unit
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Health Promotion Principles PG
Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
View teaching periods Online real-time
On-campus
 Bruce, ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥
UC Sydney Hills, Castle Hill, NSW
EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.125 3 Faculty Of Health
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
Public Health Post Graduate Level Band 2 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
Band 3 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)
This unit introduces students to health promotion as a conceptual framework, a field of practice and an integral part of the broader public health field.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Analyse and interpret public health issues according to evidence-based health promotion principles;
2. Apply and integrate contemporary health promotion processes into a range of public health contexts;
3. Design and implement health promotion processes and content evaluation frameworks;
4. Critically analyse and interpret health promotion practice, including practice informed by First Nation's communities; and
5. Identify and respond to challenges to health promotion in a changing world.


Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - use Indigenous histories and traditional ecological knowledge to develop and augment understanding of their discipline
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways


Skills development

The art and science of health promotion are central to public health practice, and the graduate attributes are designed to reflect this focus.



Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

10058 Health Promotion Principles and Practice PG

Assumed knowledge

None.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
2026 Bruce, ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Semester 1 16 February 2026 Online real-time Dr Thrishila Parshu Ram
2026 UC Sydney Hills, Castle Hill, NSW Semester 1 16 February 2026 On-campus Dr Thrishila Parshu Ram
2026 Bruce, ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Semester 1 16 February 2026 On-campus Dr Thrishila Parshu Ram
Not available

Required texts

Readings for this unit are taken from the following textbook:
Woodall, J. & Cross, R. (2022). Essentials of Health Promotion. London: Sage Publications Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-5264-9624-9.
An electronic copy is available through the Library. The Library also holds several hard-copy editions, which cover the same core content.

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Artificial intelligence

Students are permitted to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as indicated in the assessment instructions for this unit, as well as Studiosity Writing Feedback Plus.

GenAI may only be used in authorised ways when completing assessments at UC. This means that GenAI can only be used for an assessment when:

  1. the Unit Convener has authorised GenAI use for that assessment
  2. the student uses GenAI in the way that the assessment instructions allow
  3. the student fully acknowledges their use of GenAI, with proper citations, references and a GenAI Acknowledgement Statement in line with the assessment instructions.

Where the assessment instructions do not specifically state that GenAI may be used and how, then its use is not permitted for that assessment. Students must still provide the required GenAI Acknowledgement Statement to indicate whether GenAI has or has not been used in the preparation of the assessment. If unsure, students should seek advice from the Unit Convener.

The  Library Guide provides further information, including how to .

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the , , and University of ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

The unit requires active participation by students which includes listening to the lectures, attending tutorials( face-face or online), undertaking the readings and any relevant assessment tasks.

Students need to pace themselves around the timetable and ensure that they are able to participate in the group activities that are carried out during tutorials either in person or through online participation. 

Participation requirements

Students need to pace themselves around the timetable and ensure that they are able to participate in the group activities that are carried out during tutorials either in person or through online participation. 

Attendance at tutorials where external experts and health promotion teams present is required. 

Students must complete all assessment items to pass this unit. 

Required IT skills

Capacity to navigate the Canvas site, download the lectures and readings and participate in online activities is essential to achieve sucess in this unit.

Students will be expected to use MSOffice for their assignments. 

Work placement, internships or practicums

None