Course list for the Public Health Specialisation

Information valid for students commencing 2020

Clinical & Public Health Specialisations

Year 1

Part A

Compulsory

#16 units for -

Course Code Units Course Title
BIOM1070 2 Biology for Health Sciences Part A
BIOM1071 2 Biology for Health Sciences Part B
INDH1005 2 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health
PUBH1102 2 Introduction to Public Health
PUBH1103 2 Health Systems & Policy
PUBH1108 2 Health Research & Evidence
PUBH1109 2 Measurement in Health
PUBH1110 2 Integrative Thinking in Health

Years 2 and 3

Public Health Specialisation

Part B

Compulsory

#20 units for -

Course Code Units Course Title
HLTH3000 2 Legal & Ethical Principles in Health
HLTH3001 2 Practicum in Health Sciences
NUTR2003 2 Nutrition in the Lifespan
PUBH2004 2 Understanding Health Behaviours
PUBH2007 2 Health Research Methods
PUBH2008 2 Major Diseases & their control
PUBH3002 2 Health Policy in Practice
PUBH3005 2 Influencing Health Behaviours
PUBH3009 2 Environmental Health
PUBH3010 2 Global Health and Infectious Disease

Part C

Electives

#12 units from -

Course Code Units Course Title
ABTS2020 2 Critical Indigenous knowledges, thought and philosophy
ABTS2060 2 Critical Connections: Indigenous Relationality and/in Place
ABTS3020 2 Working with Indigenous People
ANAT2029 2 Functional Musculoskeletal Anatomy - Human Movement
ANTH2250 2 Medical Anthropology: Local and Global Perspectives
BIOC3006 2 Biochemistry of Metabolism in Health and Disease
BIOM2015 2 Physiology and Pharmacology of Human Disease
[ CHEM1100 2 Chemistry 1
[ or
[ CHEM1221 2 General, Organic & Biological Chemistry
ECON1010 2 Introductory Microeconomics
ECON2460 2 Health Economics
[ HLTH2000 2 Understanding Digital Health
[ or
[ HLTH2001 2 Introduction to Clinical Telehealth
HLTH3007 2 Research Project
HPRM1000 2 Physical Activity & Health
HPRM1100 2 Introduction to Health Promotion Principles & Strategies
NUTR3011 2 Understanding Population Nutrition
NUTR3012 2 Community & Public Health Nutrition
PHYL2730 2 Exercise Physiology
POLS1701 2 Introduction to International Inequality & Development
NEUR1020 2 The Brain and Behavioural Sciences
PSYC1030 2 Introduction to Psychology: Developmental, Social & Clinical Psychology
PSYC3132 2 The New Psychology of Health
SOCY1030 2 Introduction to Health, Illness and Society

Or up to #4 units from other undergraduate courses approved by the Program Director.

A maximum of #8 units Part C courses may be taken at introductory (1000) level