Courses Handbook 2010

312755 (v.1) Refugee and Migrant Health 300


Area: Centre for International Health
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 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The unit will provide an overview of the current situation of refugees and displaced persons throughout the world. It will examine and illustrate the effect of displacement on the health of migrants and refugees with a special emphasis on Australia. There will be an analysis of major issues associated with the provision of support to those in detention and Australian immigration policy. Students will critique service provision for migrant and refugee health in Australia. Students will learn to apply a culturally relevant human rights framework to Australian refugee issues.
** 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: 069900 Other Health (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*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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