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Unit Summary
Unit aim
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
Learning outcomes
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Describe an aspect of modern gambling |
| 2 | Evaluate a gaming room floor using servicescape principles |
| 3 | Create a harm minimisation strategy |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Describe an aspect of modern gambling
- Evaluate a gaming room floor using servicescape principles
- Create a harm minimisation strategy
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.