📖Program Curriculum
A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 240 credit points (cp) as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless indicated.
Unit type Credit Points Specific requirements
Core Units
(22 units) 220cp Compulsory Core units totalling 220 credit points as detailed below.
SBI171 Anatomy and Physiology 1
SBI172 Anatomy and Physiology 2
SWK102 Communication Skills
HSC111 Ethics in Health Care (replaces HSC210 from 2021)
HSC121 Australia's Healthcare System and Policies
HSC112 Basics of Epidemiology
HSC122 Foundations of Public Health
HSC132 Introduction to Health Promotion
HSC202 Social Media and Marketing in Health Promotion
HSC203 Perspectives of Indigenous Health (new title from 2021)
HSC204 Chronic Conditions Management
HSC211 Mental Health Wellbeing
HSC220 Society, culture and health: A sociological introduction (replaces HSC230 from 2021)
MAN204 Project Management
PHM301 Exploring Public Health
SWK312 Social Research Methods
HSC312 Global and Environmental Health
HSC318 Rural and Remote Health
HSC331 Health Science Community Practicum A (20 cp)
HSC332 Health Science Community Practicum B (20 cp)
Specialist Electives
(2 units) 20cp Specialist Elective units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.
PSY140 Introduction to Psychology A (replaced by PSY150 2022)
HSC213 Health Informatics
IAS352 Practices and Skills in Indigenous Community Work
SPE320 Nutrition and Health
SWK301 Working with and Developing Communities
SWK313 Organisational Behaviour
240cp Total Credit Points
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