School Of Social SciencesWorkbased Learning Project: Humanitarian and Health StudiesWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 400281.1
Discipline: STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Students must be in their final year of a Major in Humanitarian and Peace Studies (B. Soc.Sc) OR Major in Social Health Studies (BHSc).
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
To undertake the placement requirements for this unit students are required to comply with all special requirements determined by government policies or institutional guidelines applicable to the organisation where their placement takes place.
About this Unit
This unit will provide students with important practical experience in the delivery of humanitarian assistance and/or health care delivery, health care policy making and administration, and research in social and community health. Students will gain workbased knowledge of how theories and principles learnt in their major area of study are applied in practice. They will complete a project that focuses on such an application in one particular organisation. As a result, students will be able to assess the effectiveness of different strategies of social action in the reduction or elimination of human rights abuses and infringements and/or gain valuable workbased experience in an organization that addresses health problems in their social context.