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GLOH5301: Global Health Capstone

2025 unit information

The capstone unit is to be completed in the last semester of the student’s candidature. This unit provides students with an opportunity to draw together and integrate their learning in the cores and elective units and apply the knowledge and skills gained. Students will be expected to complete a task which illustrates how a global health problem or issue can be analysed and an appropriate response formulated (including action to be taken and a plan to evaluate the impact of the action). This work may be completed individually or in small groups, although each student will be responsible for independent work and will submit assessment independently. For example, students may design a simple study or intervention evaluation or a practical project incorporating quantitative and qualitative methods to address a global health problem in a specific global setting. Students who have already collected data can analyse the data and write up as the capstone. Assessment includes the project proposal and the final deliverable, which is flexible and will be decided and agreed with the unit co-ordinator and the project supervisor. It may be a report, a literature review, development of an application, multimedia, or a manuscript suitable for submission to a journal.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Medicine and Health

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Public Health
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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GLOH5101 and GLOH5102 and PUBH5010
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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GLOH5302 or GLOH5303 or GLOH5304 or GLOH5305
Assumed knowledge:
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Completed at least 48 credits of the Master of Global Health

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Apply knowledge and skills to tackle a real-world Global Health issue
  • LO2. Apply critical and analytical thinking to problem-solving
  • LO3. Improve academic writing through working on a proposal and the final output
  • LO4. Work independently or in a team, and engage in self-directed learning

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2024
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2024
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2024
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2024
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2025
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Semester 1 2025
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Semester 2 2025
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Semester 2 2025
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2020
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 Early 2020
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Semester 1 2021
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2021
Supervision Remote
Semester 2 2021
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Supervision Remote
Semester 1 2022
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2022
Supervision Remote
Semester 2 2022
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2022
Supervision Remote
Semester 1 2023
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2023
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2023
Supervision Remote
Semester 2 2023
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Supervision Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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