Bachelor of Health Sciences
2018 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2018 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Health Sciences |
| Course Map | This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 1 2018. This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 3 2018. If you require a course map from a previous year, please contact a Student Adviser. |
| Campus |
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| Cloud Campus | Yes |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| CRICOS course code | 052823G Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
| Deakin course code | H300 |
| Approval status | This course is approved by the University under the Higher Education Standards Framework. |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 7. |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Career opportunities
- Mandatory student checks
- Pathways
- Fees and charges
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Major sequences
- Course structure
- Work experience
- Details of major sequences
- Third party arrangements
- Research and research-related study
Course overview
Explore the growing health and human services sector and tailor your Health Sciences degree to suit your career goals. Combine a solid foundation in health with your choice from our 12 specialised major areas of study.
If you know you want to work in the health and human services sector, our health sciences degree will help you explore the many career paths available. The Bachelor of Health Sciences is a professionally-oriented degree that boasts a newly enhanced suite of 6 core units, taught across the 3 year levels of the degree, equipping you with the core skills and competencies required by contemporary health and human services industries.
In addition, you will choose 2 of the 12 available major sequences, in areas ranging from Health Promotion, Health and Sustainability, and Nutrition, to Disability and Inclusion, Environmental Health, Psychological Science and Exercise Science. Your choice of majors will enable you to tailor your study to your interests and career goals. The degree also offers multiple work-integrated learning opportunities, including a unit in the final year of study in which you will apply your theoretical knowledge in a real-word context.
Whatever your choice of majors, this is the degree to propel you into a rewarding career contributing to the promotion of good health and wellbeing across society.
Indicative student workload
As a student in the Faculty of Health you can expect to participate in a range of teaching activities each week. This could include classes, seminars, practicals and online interaction. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.
Career opportunities
The Bachelor of Health Sciences provides students with the opportunity to structure their own course by combining two major sequences in health and human services with a wide range of areas according to their own interests and career aspirations. Depending on the major sequences you take and your choice of electives, you could be qualified to work in areas such as health promotion, family and community support, disability inclusion, lifestyle/wellness, health policy development, exercise specialist, food security, physical activity and sports development, and research in health and human services.
Mandatory student checks
Any unit which contains work integrated learning, a community placement or interaction with the community may require a police check, working with children check or other check. Refer the relevant unit guide.Pathways
The Bachelor of Health Sciences can be used as an excellent pathway to postgraduate study including:
Master of Health and Human Services Management
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on your course, your fee category and the year you started. To find out about the fees and charges that apply to you, visit the Current students fees website.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
| Discipline Specific knowledge and capabilities | Integrate and apply a broad and coherent knowledge of the determinants of health and illness, health and social data, health equity, cultural diversity, human rights, public policy, health and social systems, and ethical practice, to plan, implement and evaluate programs relevant to health and community services sectors. |
| Communication | Use a range of modes of communication to engage and facilitate groups, organisations and culturally diverse communities as well as communicate discipline specific knowledge to a variety of audiences such as professionals, government and non-government representatives, community members, clients and/or patients. |
| Digital Literacy | Select and use appropriate technologies to source, interpret, evaluate, adapt, collate and disseminate relevant information to professional networks and communities in an ethical and professional manner. |
| Critical thinking | Critically analyse evaluate and synthesise relevant discipline specific issues and contemporary literature/research within the health and social services field, applying an evidence-based approach. |
| Problem Solving | Apply best practice and respond effectively using well-developed cognitive and creative skills within an evidence-based framework to identify, research, analyse, generate and provide practical solutions to a range of changing, diverse and complex health issues, contributing new insights, solutions or understanding. |
| Self-management | Employ independent, self-directed work and learning practices in a responsible manner, including self-reflection, in order to practice professionally and contribute to the improvement of the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations. |
| Teamwork | Establish and facilitate collaborative professional relationships, adapting roles and working as part of interdisciplinary teams with a range of stakeholders to advance the health science field. |
| Global Citizenship | Reflect on a variety of viewpoints, attitudes and beliefs, including one’s own, to engage ethically in professional practice and foster capacity building in health sciences within globally diverse social, cultural and environmental contexts. |
Course rules
NOTE: The Bachelor of Health Sciences has undergone some changes in 2016. If you commenced your study in, or prior to, 2015 then the former course structure with two core units may apply. Please contact your Health student advisor on health-hsd@deakin.edu.au
To complete the Bachelor of Health Sciences students must attain 24 credit points. Most units (think of units as 'subjects') are equal to one credit point. In order to gain 24 credit points you will need to study 24 units (AKA 'subjects') over your entire degree. Most students choose to study 4 units per trimester and usually undertake two trimesters each year.
The course comprises a total of 24 credit points and students must ensure that they have met the following course rules to be eligible to graduate.
Must complete:
- 6 core units (these are compulsory)
- at least 2 major sequences from list below.
- at least 18 credit points offered by the Faculty of Health.
- at least 14 credit points studied at level 2 or 3
- at least 6 credit points at level 3
May complete a maximum of 6 credit points from units offered by other Faculties.
Must not complete more than 10 credit points at level 1.
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. Click here for more information.Major sequences
The following majors and minors are available within the Bachelor of Health Sciences.
Availability of majors and minors at each campus varies, including majors and minors offered through Deakin Learning Centres. Refer to the details of each major for campus and Deakin Learning Centre availability.
- Environmental Health - Major
- Exercise Science - Major and Minor
- Family, Society and Health - Major and Minor
- Food Studies - Major and Minor
- Health Promotion - Major and Minor
- Health and Sustainability - Major and Minor
- Medical Biotechnology - Major and Minor
- Nutrition - Major and Minor
- Disability and Inclusion (previously titled: People, Society and Disability) - Major and Minor
- Physical Activity and Health - Major and Minor
- Psychological Science - Major
- Psychology for Professional Development - Major and Minor
A major sequence in the Faculty of Health consists of a minimum of 6 credit points in a particular discipline area, including at least 2 credit points at each of levels 2 and 3. Students enrolled in other courses and faculties may take these sequences, or take minor sequences (4 credit points) or individual electives from these discipline areas, subject to meeting the prerequisites.
Individual units cannot be counted towards more than one major. Where the units in one major have already been counted towards another, students must take additional units in the second discipline area. For example, HBS109 is one of the units in Nutrition, as well as being part of the Exercise Science major sequence. Students wishing to combine these two majors must take an additional unit, either in Exercise (HSE) or in Nutrition (HSN). Your student advisor can provide more information.
Faculty of Health minor sequences consist of 4 credit points, as outlined in each major that has a minor sequence available.
Faculty of Health major sequences are described below. Each unit is worth 1 credit point (cp), unless otherwise specified. Unit offerings are subject to resources and demand.
Course structure
Core units
Level 1 - Trimester 1
| HBS107 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Level 1 - Trimester 2
| HBS108 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Level 2 - Trimester 1
| HSH211 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Level 2 - Trimester 2
| HSH219 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Level 3 - Trimester 1
| HSH323 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Level 3 - Trimester 2
| HSH324 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Work experience
Work-integrated learning is incorporated within this course, allowing students the opportunity to engage with industry and complete a range of authentic tasks. A core unit at third-year level, based on inter-professional learning (IPL), provides students the opportunity to draw together their cross-disciplinary learning to demonstrate the knowledge and the skills they have acquired throughout the course and apply them to real-world issues. HSH324 Integrated Learning for Practice, involves interdisciplinary teams working to develop responses to real-world problems for presentation to a professional audience.
Students have the option to complete a 120-hour field education placement unit (HSH322 Health Science Practicum) that provides you with an opportunity to transfer your knowledge and skills to a practical setting, where you can further your learning through realistic field experience. This placement enables you to consolidate your skills under the supervision of qualified practitioners, which assists you to be work-ready after graduation.
Details of major sequences
Details of major sequences
Health and Sustainability
Campus
Burwood (Melbourne)
Unit set code
MJ-H000013 - Major
MN-H000013 - Minor
Overview
This major will enable students to identify and predict the impact of human behaviours on natural systems and ecological sustainability and propose strategies that apply the principles of environmental sustainability and health promotion.
Units
| SLE121 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSH112 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSW235 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| SHD201 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSH302 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSH340 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
*Units required for Minor sequence
Details of major sequences
Medical Biotechnology
Campuses
Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Burwood (Melbourne)
Unit set code
MJ-H000032 - Major
MN-H000032 - Minor
Overview
Medical Biotechnology uses cells and cell materials to produce pharmaceutical and diagnostic products that help treat and prevent human diseases. This major provides students with a sound understanding of the core sciences underpinning biotechnology for medical advancement.
Units
| HMM101 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HMM102 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HMM201 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HMM202 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HMM302 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HMM305 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
*Units required for Minor sequence
Details of major sequences
Health Promotion
Campuses
Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool, Cloud (online) and students enrolled in H300DA and H300WE
Unit set code
MJ-H000004 - Major
MN-H000004 - Minor
Overview
This major will equip students with a sound knowledge of the causes of health and illness and of effective strategies for prevention of the latter, as well as practical skills in health education and communication, health planning and management.
Units
| HBS110 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSH111 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSH208 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSH212 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSH302 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSH313 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
*Units required for Minor sequence and one of HSH302 or HSH313
Details of major sequences
Environmental Health
Campus
Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong)
Unit set code
MJ-S000059 - Major
Overview
Focusing on healthy environments and healthy people, this major is recommended for students interested in working in public health policy, environmental health and related areas.
Units
| SLE111 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSN101 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| SLE234 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSH205 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| SLE312 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| SLE342 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Details of major sequences
Disability and Inclusion
Campuses
Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online) and students enrolled in H300DA and H300WE
Unit set code
MJ-H000025 - Major
MN-H000025 - Minor
Overview
(previously titled: People, Society and Disability)
Completion of this major will equip students with skills to be an inclusion professional, working to overcome the social and structural barriers that contribute to disability. Students can apply these skills alongside those of other majors and disciplines, including skills in inclusive communication strategies, inclusive services, advocacy and human rights.
Units
| HDS101 | Unit description is currently unavailable *+ |
| HDS106 | Unit description is currently unavailable *+ |
| HDS209 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HDS210 | Unit description is currently unavailable + |
| HDS301 | Unit description is currently unavailable + |
| HDS310 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
*Units required for Minor sequence focusing on inclusive services and advocacy
+Units required for Minor sequence focusing on inclusion practice in diverse professions
Details of major sequences
Nutrition
Campuses
Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool and students enrolled in H300DA and H300WE. Some units available in Cloud (online).
H300DA and H300WE students: some units only available at Burwood (Melbourne)
Unit set code
MJ-H000007 - Major
MN-H000007 - Minor
Overview
Students taking a nutrition major will gain a sound knowledge of the biological basis of human nutrition and the relationship between diet, health and disease.
Units
| HBS109 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSN101 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSN211 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSN202 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSN301 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSN302 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
*Units required for Minor sequence
Students who have previously completed HSN201 do not need to also complete HSN211
Recommended electives
| HSN210 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSN305 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Trimester 3 elective
| HSN360 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Details of major sequences
Food Studies
Campus
Burwood (Melbourne)
Unit set code
MJ-H000003 - Major
MN-H000003 - Minor
Overview
This major provides knowledge of food, ranging from the science of food composition to community issues such as genetically modified foods and food law. This understanding will be useful for a range of careers, including those in industry, health services, business and the mass media.
Units
| HSN101 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSN104 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSN204 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSN209 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSN309 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSN315 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
*Units required for Minor sequence
Recommended electives
| HSN313 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSN320 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Trimester 3 elective:
| HSN360 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Details of major sequences
Family, Society and Health
Campuses
Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online) and students enrolled in H300DA and H300WE
Unit set code
MJ-H000002 - Major
MN-H000002 - Minor
Overview
This major focuses on the household and family as a setting for public health. It explores the issues facing households and families, such as the link between healthy human development and healthy households, economic wellbeing and health, and the need for supportive environments. It is ideal for students wishing to work in welfare, health promotion, or with organisations offering support services and resources for families.
Units
| HSH105 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSH113 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSH206 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSH207 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSH306 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSH313 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
*Units required for Minor sequence
Details of major sequences
Exercise Science
Campuses
Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online) and students enrolled in H300DA and H300WE
Note: Cloud (online) offering has on campus intensive workshops of 2-4 days for HSE102, HSE201, HSE202, HSE301 and HSE302.
Unit set code
MJ-H000016 - Major
MN-H000016 - Minor
Overview
This major provides students with a sound understanding of the core sciences underpinning both competitive sport and recreational physical activity. A variety of learning approaches is adopted, allowing students to integrate their sporting interests with their studies, as well as to match these with their employment objectives.
Units
| HBS109 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSE102 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSE201 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSE202 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSE301 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSE302 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
*Units required for Minor sequence
Physical Activity and Health
Campuses
Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool and students enrolled in H300DA and H300WE. Some units available in Cloud (online)
H300DA and H300WE students: some units only available at Burwood (Melbourne)
The minor sequence is under review. Students who wish to undertake the minor sequence should consult their course advisor.
Unit set code
MJ-H000023 - Major
MN-H000023 - Minor
Overview
This major provides students with an understanding of how behaviour influences health, with a particular emphasis on the relationships between physical activity and health.
Units
| HSE111 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSE112 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HSE212 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSE213 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSE316 | Unit description is currently unavailable * |
| HSE332 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
* Units required for Minor sequence
Students who commenced the major in or before 2016 who have completed HBS107 and HBS110 will need to enrol into these second and third year units: HSE203 and HSE212 in 2017, and HSE313 and HSE316 in 2018.
Students who commenced their course in or before 2016 and wish to start undertaking the major in 2017, but have not completed HBS107 and HBS110 will need to follow the new sequence above.
If you are unsure which sequence you can to undertake or have questions about this major, please contact your student adviser immediately.
Health Sciences students email health-hsd@deakin.edu.au.
Students in other courses email ens-enquire@deakin.edu.au.
Students from courses except H343 Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science and H315 Bachelor of Nutrition Science will need to ensure that their course rules will allow them to undertake this major.
Psychological Science
Campuses
Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool, Cloud (online) and students enrolled in H300DA and H300WE. Individual units may not be available on every campus.
Unit set code
MJ-H000034 - Major
Overview
This sequence prepares students for postgraduate training towards becoming both a practicing registered psychologist. To practice as a psychologist students must complete an undergraduate degree with a major sequence in psychology followed by a fourth year of study in psychology (an Honours in Psychology or a Graduate Diploma of Psychology) that are accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC).
Note: This major cannot be undertaken as part of D391 Bachelor of Health Sciences/Bachelor of Arts
Units
To obtain the ten unit undergraduate psychology sequence students must complete all the units listed below.
| HPS111 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS121 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS201 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS202 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS203 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS204 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS301 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS307 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS308 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS310 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Psychology for Professional Development
Campuses
Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool, Cloud (online) and students enrolled in H300DA and H300WE. Individual units may not be available on every campus.
Unit set code
MJ-H000035 - Major
MN-H000035 - Minor
Overview
This sequence prepares students for work in complementary professional fields upon graduation. Careers immediately available to health sciences graduates within the pathway to allied professions, can be divided broadly into the following categories (please refer to the Psychology Careers website for details):
- Community work
- Coaching and counselling individuals and groups
- Health and human services consulting
Units
Major students select three pairs of units to suit their career goals
Minor students select Psychology for Health and one other pair of units to suit their career goals
Psychology of Health (pair)
| HBS110 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS226 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Changing Behaviour (pair) - Not available Cloud (online) or Warrnambool
| HPY210 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPY310 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Life Course Development (pair)
| HPS202 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS302 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
Employability (pair)
| HPS207 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| HPS328 | Unit description is currently unavailable (Start Anytime) |
It is recommended students complete HPS207 in second year to allow sufficient time to complete HPS328 in the final year
Course duration - additional information
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as accessing or completing work placements.
Third party arrangements
Deakin College offers a subset of first year subjects of the degree as part of the Diploma of Health Sciences. Students who complete the program with a WAM of at least 50, can gain entry into H300, with credit for core and other units already completed, enabling them to enter at second year level of the degree.
Quality assurance arrangements
The units offered by Deakin College are those offered as part of the H300. Quality assurance is as for the rest of H300.
Research and research-related study
The degree includes two core units that offer research-related study, HBS108 and HSH219. HBS108 ‘Health Information and Data’ provides the basic skills necessary to be consumers and providers of health research information. The unit comprises nine topics, covering: measuring health and disease in populations, introduction to qualitative research, study design, obtaining online health information, evaluating popular health claims, introduction to quantitative research, evidence based practice including critical appraisal. HSH219 ‘Population Health: A Research Perspective’ aims to introduce students to the principles and practices of research in public health and health promotion with a focus on current population health issues using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches. The unit covers topics such as the development and expression of research aims, questions and hypotheses; the application of appropriate research methods specific to research questions; and the different ways of collecting data in various research settings. In addition, the capstone unit in the final year, HSH324, may further provide some students with opportunities to conduct research activities dependent on the nature of projects offered by employers/organisations. Finally, a range of units across the majors incorporate smaller applied research tasks, such as health needs analyses of specific groups, service profiles, social issues research etc.