APG5123 Health, illness and disease
Faculty of Arts
APG5123 Health, illness and disease is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2021. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2021
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for APG5123. This is its 2021 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before APG5123
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After APG5123
No unit lists APG5123 as a prerequisite in the 2021 handbook.
Overview
In this unit, you will critically analyse core concepts in the philosophy and practice of medicine and how they relate to bioethics. You will examine definitions of health, disease and illness, as well as other related topics, such as disability, ageing and pain, as well as explore contemporary medical responses to these issues.
Offerings in 2021
The 2021 handbook lists no offerings for APG5123.
Assessment
- Online Engagement Activities30%
- Key Concept Analysis30%
- Reflexive essayEssay40%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Identify and critically analyse core concepts in the philosophy and practice of medicine;
- 2
Discuss the relevance of these concepts to core debates in bioethics;
- 3
Critically evaluate the role of these concepts in bioethics and contemporary medical practice;
- 4
Utilise well-developed research skills to undertake rigorous, in-depth analysis of bioethical issues.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Catherine Mills
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Catherine Mills
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5123?
APG5123 has no prerequisites.
When is APG5123 offered?
APG5123 has no offerings listed in the 2021 handbook.
How much work is APG5123?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does APG5123 have an exam?
No. APG5123 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Study level
- Postgraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Arts
- Organisational unit
- Monash Bioethics Centre
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 4
- Study abroad
- Available
- Handbook years
- 2021