Courses Handbook 2010

11296 (v.5) Sociology 217 - Health and Illness


Area: Department of Social Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** 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. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 11300 (v.4) Sociology 317 - Sociology of Health and Illness or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 7365 (v.5) Sociology 111 - Social Construction of Identity or any previous version
AND
7366 (v.4) Sociology 112 - Australian Society in the Global Economy or any previous version
Syllabus: Sociology and anthropology of health and illness. Health and illness as social events, the social distribution of illness, the biomedical model of illness. Cross-cultural variations. Migrant health. Epidemics. Healer and patient interaction. Medical and related institutions, healthcare systems and workers.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090301 Sociology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*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
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2       Y  
2010 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

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