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EDHP2003: Health of Young People
2025 unit information
This unit continues to explore the socio-cultural perspective of health developed in Health 1, looking specifically at how young people experience health within Australia. The unit explores the idea that not all young people experience health and illness in the same way. This is explored through a range of health-related issues including: mental health, alcohol and drug use, sexual health, gender and sexuality, road safety, and relationships. The concepts of harm minimisation, resiliency, protective factors and connectedness are examined through the strength-based approach to teaching health, and skills in critical media and health literacy are explored and developed.
Unit details and rules
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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66 credit points including EDHP2002 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Explore a variety of key issues, information sources, and discourses that influence the health status and identity of a diverse range of young people in Australia
- LO2. Identify and evaluate factors that influence the health status of young people and explore a range of health pedagogues and policies for influencing young people’s health knowledge and decision making skills
- LO3. Identify and evaluate how media construct and impact on young people’s health
- LO4. Design teaching and learning activities that reflect a strengths based approach to teaching health
- LO5. Demonstrate and evaluate the use of health literacy skills in addressing youth health concern areas such as sexuality education, drug and alcohol use, bullying, road safety, mental health and grief and loss
- LO6. Familiarize pre-service teachers with the nature of literacy and the ways it is embedded in the NSW PDHPE curricula, and develop their ability to use this knowledge in the creation of learning activities.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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