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Study undergraduate community services & care online with La Trobe University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Individual Determinants of Health

Understanding and Support for Autism

Development in Practice

Making Development Matter

Australian Sign Language 1A

Transforming Local Communities

In this subject, you will develop practical abilities in both receptive and production skills in Auslan to a level of basic communicative competence. You will be introduced to the key grammatical structures of Auslan and the use of the language in its appropriate cultural and social context.

In this subject, you will develop the foundation knowledge for working with individuals in health and human services settings. You will learn how particular characteristics and actions of an individual impact on health and welfare outcomes. You will be: (i) presented with frameworks, including a developmental perspective, for understanding how the characteristics and actions of individuals impact on health outcomes; (ii) provided with foundation knowledge for understanding how individuals present in, and progress through, health settings; and (iii) review theoretical approaches to producing individual change in health and well-being settings.

Learn how different characteristics, including intelligence and personality, impact on people’s health and welfare. Study fundamental health psychology theories and concepts, and their application in the social services and healthcare sectors.Learn about the human lifespan—the health and behaviour of newborns to the elderly in real settings.

In this subject students will examine the ways health, well-being and illness are experienced, understood, and responded to by people as social beings who participate in various groups, organisations, communities, and societies. Critical factors such as education, social class, gender, and ethnicity and culture will be explored to examine how social practices, positions, and processes influence access to and use of resources supportive of health and well-being.

Explore how access to healthcare influences how people interpret, understand and respond to health, wellbeing and illness. Examine how education, race, class, gender and culture guides people’s decision making and expectations of well-being.

Social Determinants of Health

In this subject, you will explore the cluster of conditions formally identified under the umbrella term of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD; hereafter, autism) taking both a scientific/medical perspective and a neurodiversity/lived experience and applied perspective. You will explore changing perspectives on what underpins autism, from the first proposed accounts through to contemporary theories. You will consider the presentation of autism and the lived experience and support needs of individuals and their families, right across the lifespan; from neonatal life and very early infancy, right through childhood and adolescence, into adulthood. You will develop knowledge of the condition, including early signs, core features and the tools used for diagnosis, and a range of supports for different aspects of the condition at different life stages. You will explore attitudes and perspectives on autism locally within Victoria, across Australia, and abroad, including community perspectives , media representation, and government policy. You will develop important skills for critically evaluating the wealth of information on autism that exists in the public domain.(Subject suspended for 2024, runs during odd years)

In this subject, students will continue to develop practical abilities in both receptive and production skills in Auslan to a level of basic communicative competence. Students are introduced to further key grammatical structures of Auslan and the use of the language in its appropriate cultural and social context.

Australian Sign Language 1B

What is the role of research in understanding and bringing about positive social and political-economic change? How do people living in diverse social and cultural contexts understand, value and work to bring about change themselves? How can we use engaged research to help bring about meaningful positive change at local and global levels? ANT1TLC explores these questions by exploring a series of specific case studies that introduce students to key issues such as: Anthropological Responsibility and Community Change; Anthropology and Human Rights; Gender and Empowerment; Structural Violence and Resilience; How to Think Critically about Development; Protest Culture; Environmental Anthropology. This subject combines primary anthropological methods with those of diversely related disciplines, including Sustainability and Development Studies, Aboriginal Studies, Gender Studies, Politics and Sociology. This subject is suitable as an elective for all students.

In this subject you will focus on the practical skills used in development work. Guest speakers from various agencies share their experiences of the development field, providing you with an opportunity to draw on professional expertise. The subject is organised around the idea of the &#39;development project&#39;. You are introduced to key development tools, processes and debates surrounding the implementation of development projects. On completion you will be familiar with grant proposal writing, practical tools used in development, and with debates about the best forms of development intervention. In this subject, you will develop and deploy a tool kit of practical techniques and strategies to address sustainability and development challenges that transcend borders, in culturally aware ways that promote community agency and social cohesion. You are encouraged to explore a particular region of interest, for example, Latin America, Africa, Asia or the Pacific.

This subject introduces you to historical and contemporary approaches to and perspectives on sustainable international development. Weekly topics will provide an opportunity for you to critically debate evolving contemporary development perspectives on global issues such as poverty, sustainability, justice, social change and community, as well as question the relevance of concepts such as &#39;overseas&#39; development assistance, capacity-building, and participatory development . The subject enables you to understand and question the dynamics of change in the development sector and the generation and effective management of new ideas about &quot;making development matter&quot;. Through collaboration and effective communication you will further development their creativity in resolving complex development challenges and their capacity to apply theory, locate and synthesise knowledge resources, prioritise meaningful action, and manage associated risks.

In this subject, students will develop intermediate levels of communicative competence in Auslan in both receptive and production skills. They will focus on the use of informal register and discourse forms in the language, and will also discuss the issue of sociolinguistic variation within the deaf community.

Australian Sign Language 2A

In this subject, you will develop practical abilities in both receptive and production skills in Auslan to a level of basic communicative competence. You will be introduced to the key grammatical structures of Auslan and the use of the language in its appropriate cultural and social context.




La Trobe University

In this subject, you will explore the cluster of conditions formally identified under the umbrella term of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD; hereafter, autism) taking both a scientific/medical perspective and a neurodiversity/lived experience and applied perspective. You will explore changing perspectives on what underpins autism, from the first proposed accounts through to contemporary theories. You will consider the presentation of autism and the lived experience and support needs of individuals and their families, right across the lifespan; from neonatal life and very early infancy, right through childhood and adolescence, into adulthood. You will develop knowledge of the condition, including early signs, core features and the tools used for diagnosis, and a range of supports for different aspects of the condition at different life stages. You will explore attitudes and perspectives on autism locally within Victoria, across Australia, and abroad, including community perspectives , media representation, and government policy. You will develop important skills for critically evaluating the wealth of information on autism that exists in the public domain.

(Subject suspended for 2024, runs during odd years) 

In this subject, students will continue to develop practical abilities in both receptive and production skills in Auslan to a level of basic communicative competence. Students are introduced to further key grammatical structures of Auslan and the use of the language in its appropriate cultural and social context.

What is the role of research in understanding and bringing about positive social and political-economic change? How do people living in diverse social and cultural contexts understand, value and work to bring about change themselves? How can we use engaged research to help bring about meaningful positive change at local and global levels? ANT1TLC explores these questions by exploring a series of specific case studies that introduce students to key issues such as: Anthropological Responsibility and Community Change; Anthropology and Human Rights; Gender and Empowerment; Structural Violence and Resilience; How to Think Critically about Development; Protest Culture; Environmental Anthropology. This subject combines primary anthropological methods with those of diversely related disciplines, including Sustainability and Development Studies, Aboriginal Studies, Gender Studies, Politics and Sociology. This subject is suitable as an elective for all students.

In this subject you will focus on the practical skills used in development work. Guest speakers from various agencies share their experiences of the development field, providing you with an opportunity to draw on professional expertise. The subject is organised around the idea of the 'development project'. You are introduced to key development tools, processes and debates surrounding the implementation of development projects. On completion you will be familiar with grant proposal writing, practical tools used in development, and with debates about the best forms of development intervention. In this subject, you will develop and deploy a tool kit of practical techniques and strategies to address sustainability and development challenges that transcend borders, in culturally aware ways that promote community agency and social cohesion. You are encouraged to explore a particular region of interest, for example, Latin America, Africa, Asia or the Pacific.

This subject introduces you to historical and contemporary approaches to and perspectives on sustainable international development. Weekly topics will provide an opportunity for you to critically debate evolving contemporary development perspectives on global issues such as poverty, sustainability, justice, social change and community, as well as question the relevance of concepts such as 'overseas' development assistance, capacity-building, and participatory development . The subject enables you to understand and question the dynamics of change in the development sector and the generation and effective management of new ideas about "making development matter". Through collaboration and effective communication you will further development their creativity in resolving complex development challenges and their capacity to apply theory, locate and synthesise knowledge resources, prioritise meaningful action, and manage associated risks. 

In this subject, students will develop intermediate levels of communicative competence in Auslan in both receptive and production skills. They will focus on the use of informal register and discourse forms in the language, and will also discuss the issue of sociolinguistic variation within the deaf community.

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