311439 (v.2) Physical Activity and Health 182

Area:	School of Public Health
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
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 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	1643 (v.7) Human Biology 133 or any previous version
Co Requisite(s):	1644 (v.7) Human Biology 134 or any previous version
Syllabus:	This unit is to introduce the student to physical activity as a health issue. The syllabus covers contemporary health promotion thinking and models to increasing population levels of physical activity. It examined epidemiology, global trends, costs, politics, partnership and interventions. The positioning of physical activity in relation to obesity will be considered. A series of intervention types and methods will be presented and examined. Sub-populations with specific needs and specific settings fro inventions will be explored.
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:	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
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