1997 QUT Handbook

Courses: HL88, PU65
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PUP122 PRACTICE IN CLINICAL DIETETICS
Practical experience and seminar presentations relevant to clinical
dietetics conducted in institutions off campus (40 hours per
week for 11 weeks).
Courses: PU62
Prerequisites: Completion of all Semester 1 and Semester 2
units
Credit Points: 24 Contact Hours: 11 weeks
■ PUP123 PRACTICE IN COMMUNITY NUTRITION
Students gain experience in the nutrition and health care of individuals
and groups in the community through off campus practice
(40 hours per week for 3 weeks).
Courses: PU62
Prerequisites: Completion of all Semester 1 and Semester 2
units
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 weeks
■ PUP132 PRACTICE IN FOOD SERVICE
MANAGEMENT
Practical experience and seminar presentations. Conducted in
institutions off-campus (40 hours per week for 4 weeks).
Courses: PU62
Prerequisites: Completion of all Semester 1 and Semester 2
units
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 weeks
■ PUP215 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
LAW & MANAGEMENT 2
Students develop an understanding of both the legal framework
within which the discipline operates and industrial relations
concepts and practices insofar as they impinge upon occupational
health and safety. Basic statistical techniques are
reviewed as an introduction to the study of concepts of epidemiology
applicable to an occupational setting.
Courses: HL88, PU65
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PUP250 OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE
Lectures, practical work and industrial visits to instruct students
so that they may recognise, evaluate and control the
physical, biological and Chemical environmental factors which
can adversely affect the health, safety, comfort and efficiency
of workers.
Courses: HL88 , PU65
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PUP415 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Exploration of Chemical hazards in the working environment,
epidemiological principles and practice, and identification of
special risk groups in the workforce. Topics include: the pathological
bases of disease in humans; Chronic occupational diseases;
occupational skin conditions; respiratory diseases; biological
hazards in the work environment (bacteria, parasites,
viruses, rickettsia and fungi); Chemical and physical stresses
and their physiological responses; physiological monitoring
– principles and practice; special risk groups; epidemiological
principles and practice.
Courses: HL88, PU65
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PUP430 HOME ECONOMICS CURRICULUM
STUDIES 1
The bases for making decisions about home economics curriculum
design and implementation are explored in order for
participants to appreciate the complexity of this process and
the necessity to clarify their own philosophical base for teaching
in the area. The skills appropriate for preparing and implementing
sequenced units of work are developed.
Courses: ED37
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PUP431 HOME ECONOMICS CURRICULUM
STUDIES 2
Development of further skills in writing programs of work with
an emphasis on advanced teaching/learning strategies, assess-
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ment and evaluation and the processes of accreditation and certification
concomitant with BOSSSS requirements; current developments
in education and implications for home economics
curriculum; feasible teaching/learning approaches congruent
with the needs of specific groups are developed to achieve more
equitable education outcomes for all students.
Courses: ED37 Prerequisites: PUP420
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PUP511 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
MANAGEMENT
Provides students with the necessary skills to plan, organise,
coordinate, control and evaluate a successful occupational health
program in the workplace. Includes the study of the implementation
of successful health assessment and surveillance progrms,
and the planning, implementation and evaluation of health education
and promotion programs. the issues of the mainenance
of occupational health records in accordance with legal, ethical
and confidentiality guidelines are addressed.
Courses: PU65, HL88
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PUP521 RISK MANAGEMENT
This unit will provide students with the knowledge and skills
for the >assessment and quantification of risk in the workplace.
It will investigate the various models available to investigate
and analyse accidents and propose strategies to prevent similar
incidents in the future. Various hazard identification techniques
such as HAZOP, Fault Tree Analysis and FMEA will
be discussed. The subject will provide students with the ability
to position occupational health and safety within an organisation’s
strategic decision making process.
Courses: HL88, NS85, PU85, PU65, PU60
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ SCB001 LEARNING AT UNIVERSITY
Aims to develop students’ awareness and use of learning processes
necessary for quality learning at university. It encourages
a more meaningful approach to learning through the development
of active learning strategies effective in scientific
study. The content is closely allied to other first year units.
Classes have an interactive format which require active student
involvement.
Courses: SC30
Credit Points: 2 Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ SCB100 COOPERATIVE EDUCATION
Ten to 12 months placement in paid employment related to their
course, in a commercial environment under the joint supervision
of an industry supervisor and an academic adviser. An academic
adviser obtains reports from the student and their work
supervisor at regular intervals. The student is required to submit
a written report on the conclusion of their placement . Results
are determined on the basis of these reports and the employer’s
evaluation of the student’s performance and development.
Courses: CH32, MA34, SC30
Prerequisites: Completion of 4 semesters of a standard fulltime
degree-level course, normally with a GPA of not less than
4.5 overall
■ SCB202 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
The origins of modern science and technology in a social and
historical context leading to the study of their role and impact
in contemporary society; includes case studies of the development
of particular concepts, issues and science and technology
based industries. Topics include: the study of the nature of science
and technology; the sociological functioning of the scientific
enterprise – its norms and values; the nature of scientific
knowledge – objectivity and epistemological issues; the future
of science and technology – policy and influences.
Courses: ED50
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ SCB222 EXPLORATION OF THE UNIVERSE
Introduction to optical observational astronomy; instrumentation;
celestial sphere and astronomical coordinates, observa-