Unit Outline

What is cultural responsiveness and why is it increasingly valued in workplaces? What does it mean to commit to cultural safety as a health practitioner? In this online unit, you will develop your understanding of culture and the need for cultural responsiveness and cultural safety. You will begin to see culture in broad terms, and to explore the cultural and social influences that shape your own beliefs, values and behaviour and your own experiences of oppression and privilege. You will reflect on how all this affects how you interact with others, and practice responding in open minded, curious ways when your values and expectations are challenged. You will draw on unit readings and reliable literature to plan your lifelong journey of living and working effectively in a world where inequitable life experiences and outcomes based on factors including race, class, ethnicity, language, gender, ability and sexuality persist. While the unit focuses on cultural responsiveness in an Australian context, international exemplars and research are included.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1	Explain how your own and other people’s cultures shape values and behaviour; and acknowledge and address your own biases and assumptions.
2	Plan for ongoing application of cultural responsiveness and/or cultural safety by applying key principles to achieve equity, such as self-reflection and collaborative decision-making.
3	Identify and draw on reliable information to inform reflection on, and application of, cultural responsiveness.

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Anti-requisite (mutual excl)	XBR104

Alterations as a result of student feedback

This unit was substantially revised in 2024, and new Intended Learning Outcomes and assessment tasks created.

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Online quizzes	Week 3	20 %	LO3
Assessment Task 2:	Reflection	Week 5	15 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 3:	Assignment	Week 9	35 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 4:	Reflection	Week 12	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Online quizzes

Task Description:

Assessment Task 1. End-of-module online quizzes (x3)
Full details will be provided in the Guide for Assessment Task 1 on MyLO.

Quizzes Due:
Quiz One - Week 3
Quiz Two - Week 7
Quiz Three - Week 11

Task Length:

10 Minutes

Due Date:

Week 3

Weight:

20 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Demonstrate understanding of core unit content and required readings	LO3

Assessment Task 2: Reflection

Task Description:

Assessment Task 2. Reflection: Connecting your culture, values and behaviour
Draw on unit content to explore and explain how your cultures and/or social locations shape your beliefs and values about behaviour in a particular context. Reflect on how these cultural expectations may impact your interactions with others. Full details will be provided in the Guide for Assessment Task 2 on MyLO. This assessment will provide a foundation for future assessment tasks.

Task Length:

500 words

Due Date:

Week 5

Weight:

15 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Demonstrate awareness of yourself as a cultural being by making connections between your cultures and/or social locations and your beliefs and/or values about your chosen prompt	LO1
2	Respond to the reflective element of cultural responsiveness by discussing how you would negotiate encounters with others who may hold different culturally shaped beliefs and/or values about your chosen prompt	LO2
3	Integrate unit concepts and/or unit readings throughout your reflection	LO3

Assessment Task 3: Assignment

Task Description:

Assessment Task 3. Plan for action
This assignment is in two parts.
• Firstly, choose and analyse one of the Assessment Task 3 vignettes. Draw on unit concepts and readings to prepare a culturally responsive or culturally safe interaction between yourself and the character/s from the vignette. This may be submitted as a video OR as text of the video script.
• Secondly, use unit concepts and/or readings to evaluate your interaction video or transcript. This can be submitted as a video OR as a text document.
Full details will be provided in the Guide for Assessment Task 3 on MyLO.

Task Length:

Part 1: 700-word video script OR 4-minute video of an interaction Part 2: 400-word OR 2-minute video evaluation

Due Date:

Week 9

Weight:

35 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Apply elements of cultural responsiveness and/or cultural safety in your imagined interaction	LO2
2	Analyse how and why you applied cultural responsiveness and/or cultural safety theory in your video or video script	LO1, LO2
3	Integrate unit concepts and/or unit readings throughout your assignment	LO3

Assessment Task 4: Reflection

Task Description:

Assessment Task 4. Reflections (x2)
Draw on unit content to create two reflections that demonstrate your learning in CZZ104 over the semester. One reflection will address a compulsory reflection topic. For the other reflection, you can choose from any of the provided reflection activities in MyLO. Full details will be provided in the Guide for Assessment Task 4 on MyLO.

Due by date:
Week 12

Task Length:

Limit of 1000 written words total

Due Date:

Week 12

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Demonstrate awareness of yourself as a cultural being by making connections between your cultures and/or social locations and your beliefs and/or values in relation to your reflection topics	LO1
2	Respond to the reflective aspect of cultural responsiveness or cultural safety by discussing how you would negotiate encounters with others who may hold different culturally shaped beliefs and/or values in relation to your reflection topics	LO2
3	Integrate unit concepts and/or unit readings throughout your reflections	LO3

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes and achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is about acting responsibly, honestly, ethically, and collegially when using, producing, and communicating information with other students and staff members.

In written work, you must correctly reference the work of others to maintain academic integrity. To find out the referencing style for this unit, see the assessment information in the MyLO site, or contact your teaching staff. For more detail about Academic Integrity, see Important Guidelines & Support.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Review of results and appeals

You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.