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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

305795 (v.4) Ethics in International Health 600

Area: Centre for International Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 8.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Individual Study: 1 x 7 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 312820 (v.1) INH170 Ethics in International Health or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction to ethics, bioethics and ethical practice; moral reasoning and ethical theories; the Ethical Reasoning Model and the four principles; the meaning of commitment to ethics for the practitioner in international health; applying frameworks in response to ethical dilemmas; cultural diversity and ethical practice; emerging arguments about the relationship between health, ethics and human rights; current debates about the ethical conduct of research in developing countries; the ethical dimension of health equity and resource allocation.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 069999 Health not elsewhere classified
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 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