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Unit of Study HEA10202 - The Story of Healing/Indigenous Healing (2015)

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Unit description

Introduces students to stories of healing from western, eastern, classical and contemporary Indigenous perspectives. Diverse healing practices and philosophies are explored in relation to illness, disease, health and well-being in historical and contemporary contexts.

Unit content

Topic 1: Historical concepts of healing
Topic 2: The role of cultural safety in healing
Topic 3: Healing in ancient cultures
Topic 4: The Western world's contribution to healing
Topic 5: Herbalism - The oldest tradition
Topic 6: Women and healing
Topic 7: Healing traditions and practices of non-Western cultures
Topic 8: Synergy in healing
Topic 9: Indigenous Australian healing

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Location Domestic International
Online Session 1 N/A

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 demonstrate knowledge of histories of healing across cultures
2 describe relationships between health as a holistic experience, and diverse cultural healing practice(s)
3 analyse the process of deepening self-knowledge and concepts of identity
4 critically evaluate the learning processes required in transformation in healing practice.

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

  1. demonstrate knowledge of histories of healing across cultures
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA7:
  2. describe relationships between health as a holistic experience, and diverse cultural healing practice(s)
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA7:
  3. analyse the process of deepening self-knowledge and concepts of identity
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA7:
  4. critically evaluate the learning processes required in transformation in healing practice.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA7:

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