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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.

313093 (v.1) Research Project 383

Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
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 6 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 8700 (v.7) Health Promotion Planning 281
OR
311440 (v.1) Epidemiology 286 or any previous version
OR
7833 (v.8) Sexology 350 or any previous version
OR
303091 (v.3) Epidemiology 186 or any previous version
Syllabus: Students will undertake a small scale independent research project under the direction and supervision of an academic staff member. The student may examine a relevant issue in an area of relevance to public health such as: health promotion, sexology, health information management, environmental health, epidemiology and biostatistics, health management and policy, public health nutrition, and occupational health and safety. Topics could include a critical review of literature and recommendations, a research grant application, an article for submission to a peer reviewed journal, collection and analysis of a small amount of data, or the analysis of small existing data set. It is recommended that this unit be taken in the final year of a student's degree, preferably in the last semester of study.
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: 061300 Public Health (Narrow Grouping)
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        
2012 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