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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.

311916 (v.1) Contemporary Issues in Forensic Sexology 681

Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
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.
Seminar: 1 x 40 Hours Once-only
Prerequisite(s):     5947 (v.8) Sexology 650 or any previous version
    OR
    311908 (v.1) Sexology Attitudes and Values 680 or any previous version
AND
    5949 (v.8) Sexology 651 or any previous version
    OR
    311909 (v.1) Sexological Practice 681 or any previous version
AND
    5951 (v.6) Sexology 652 or any previous version
    OR
    311910 (v.1) Sexology Challenges and Opportunities 682 or any previous version
AND
    5953 (v.5) Sexology 653 or any previous version
    OR
    311911 (v.1) Introduction to Forensic Sexology 683 or any previous version
AND
13152 (v.3) Health Research Methods 681
AND
13186 (v.2) Health Services Bioethics 684
AND
301243 (v.3) Criminology, Culture and the Law 650
AND
306308 (v.2) Health Research Methods 781
Syllabus: This unit extends the students understanding and knowledge of sexual coercion; the sex industry; sexual violence; treatment of sex offenders and potential offenders. It reviews and provides methods of investigation for forensic assessment of cross-cultural sexual issues.
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: 061399 Public 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 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