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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

8701 (v.9) Health Promotion, Media and Advocacy 382

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Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 3952 (v.9) Health Promotion Methods 282 or any previous version
Syllabus: Media use as a health promotion/health communication strategy. Tobacco marketing & anti-tobacco campaigns - a media case study. Marketing & unhealthy advertising - television & children's health. Marketing & social marketing. Working with the media & writing media releases. Writing for the print media. Radio programming. Television, video & the Internet. Pre-testing media materials. Health sponsorships. Media use in health promotion campaigns. Coalition building, political lobbying & media advocacy
Field of Education: 061307 Health Promotion
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2         Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External