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Unit of Study BUS00211 - The Casino, Club and Hotel Environment (2018)

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Unit description

Introduces students to the games, the people and the places associated with modern gambling. A problem-based learning approach is then used to teach students how to create a gaming room floor using both consumer behaviour and harm minimisation principles.

Unit content

Topic 1: Gambling, gaming and wagering
Topic 2: The psychology of gamblers
Topic 3: The gambling environment
Topic 4: Consumer behaviour and servicescapes
Topic 5: Gaming room design
Topic 6: Ethical practices in the provision of gambling
Topic 7: Thinking creatively
Topic 8: Creating a safer gambling environment

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Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 1 Session 1
Online Session 1 Session 1,  1

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Describe an aspect of modern gambling
2 Apply consumer behaviour principles to the design of the gaming room floor
3 Create a harm minimisation strategy

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Describe an aspect of modern gambling
    • GA4:
  2. Apply consumer behaviour principles to the design of the gaming room floor
    • GA4:
  3. Create a harm minimisation strategy
    • GA2:
    • GA3:

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