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| Intake period | | February | | Duration | | 4 years full time (honours available) | | Weekly First Year Time Commitment | | 25 hours plus own study time | | | Advanced Standing | | Students with diplomas from polytechnics in Singapore and Malaysia could expect to receive one year of credit, except for Podiatric Medicine, Health Science, Medicine and Dentistry. | | Degrees | | Bachelor of Health Science | | Fees | | 2009: $25,000 | | CRICOS Code | | 033747F | | Prerequisites | | Mathematics |
The Bachelor of Health Science degree is an exciting commitment by the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry to produce graduates to work in the health industry. You will graduate with a depth of knowledge and skills in science and population health coupled with business skills, a strong foundation of basic sciences, skills for scientific investigation and critical thinking, knowledge of health in the community and personal and professional development. Work placements help maintain a high degree of connection with the health industry. Market research indicates graduates have excellent job prospects in the commonwealth, state and local government organisations, non-government organisations, research, the pharmaceutical industry and the biotechnology industry. The health industry has shown it is eager to employ our high quality health science graduates. The Bachelor of Health Science offers flexibility in unit selection along with some core requirements. These requirements include the study of public health, the study of one science area, at least two business units, exposure to the work environment and a unit on professional practice. If you complete a combined degree, there is an increase in core requirements and major areas of study. Level 1
The first level of the Bachelor of Health Science has been designed as a broad introduction in which you will study at least four subjects. These will include human biology or biology, at least one business unit, and may include chemistry, psychology, human movement, physics, geography, anthropology, mathematics, philosophy, computer programming and/or some arts units such as a language or history. Level 2
In Level 2 you commence your science and public health majors. Public health is about determining the influences on health, such as the social, economic, environmental, historical, political, physical and biological, how these influences interact and how the health of communities can be improved by managing these influences. Public health focuses on the health of the community, rather than individual health. It looks at what the community does to promote health and prevent ill-health. The health science degree offers flexibility in the choice of science major. You will chose one science major from 15 different disciplines including microbiology, pharmacology, human biology, anthropology, biochemistry, physiology, geography, genetics, psychology, pathology, environmental microbiology, cell physiology, biophysics, information technology systems and geography.
You will also complete your other business unit in level 2. If you choose a social science (psychological studies, anthropology, geography) or information technology systems as your science major you must also enrol in a physiology unit. Level 3
In Level 3, you complete your science major, continue with the public health major and complete the professional practice unit. Level 4
Finally in first semester of Level 4, you complete the public health major. These level 4 public health units discuss health administration, health economics, health promotion and disease control. Your work placement occupies second semester. If you progress very well through your degree, you may be offered the opportunity to complete Honours in Health Science in the fifth level of the course. Educational Qualifications| Qualifications | Grades | | WA TER | 82 | | UWA Foundation program | 68 | | WAUFY | 60 | | Minimum International Baccalaureate | 29 | | Minimum All India Senior School Certificate | 12 | | Minimum GCE or Cambridge Advanced Level Examination | 9 | | Indian School Certificate | 60 |
StructureStudents complete a major in Public Health and a major in a Biomedical or Social Science, along with core requirements of at least two business units, a unit on professional practice and placement in a health-related agency. Career OpportunitiesRecent graduates have jobs at the Cancer Foundation, the Institute of Child Health Research, as a project officer in a university, working on a residential environment project (RESIDE), assessing the impact of environmental change in mosquito-borne diseases, promoting health and fitness and on an osteoporosis clinical trial. Other career prospects, for which a Bachelor of Health Science would provide an ideal undergraduate foundation include health promotion, health education, community health, local government health services, health informatics, health statistics, health planning, epidemiology, health services, clinical trials research, health policy officer, health economist, health care/public health administration, project officer in human services, disability organisations or in general practice, pharmaceutical representative or counselling and other human services using biotechnology such as genetic counselling.
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