Health promotion, health education, community health, family and community support, health marketing, health and sport public relations, health policy...
Read moreHealth promotion, health education, community health, family and community support, health marketing, health and sport public relations, health policy development, nutrition and research in health areas.
The Bachelor of Health Sciences provides students with the opportunity to structure their own course by combining two major sequences in health with a wide range...
Read moreThe Bachelor of Health Sciences provides students with the opportunity to structure their own course by combining two major sequences in health 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, health education, community health, family and community support, health marketing, health and sport public relations, health policy development, nutrition and research in health areas.
Work-integrated learning is incorporated within this course, allowing students the opportunity to engage with industry and complete a range of auth...
Read moreWork-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.
Positives: There are many opportunities to reach other students whether this is for advice or for content and studying purposes due to a very large cohort. Many practical skill sessions are conducted to students which are great in aid of the theory study.
Negatives: I found the content of the course extremely broad and not...
Read morePositives: There are many opportunities to reach other students whether this is for advice or for content and studying purposes due to a very large cohort. Many practical skill sessions are conducted to students which are great in aid of the theory study.
Negatives: I found the content of the course extremely broad and not relevant to real work situations.
My advice to future students is: I found the content of the course extremely broad and not relevant to real work situations.
Health science is SO broad! As a student straight out of high school it was so difficult to decide which units to do, especially when a lot of the major sequences (I.e health promotion and exercise science) had the same level 1 prerequisites.
My advice to future students is:
I did random subjects that I wasn't interested...
Health science is SO broad! As a student straight out of high school it was so difficult to decide which units to do, especially when a lot of the major sequences (I.e health promotion and exercise science) had the same level 1 prerequisites.
My advice to future students is:
I did random subjects that I wasn't interested in just to fill my timetable, which had negative effects on my WAM. While the prospect of having choice was good, the lack of structure made it difficult to make friends within the course or decide exactly what you wanted to do as a major/ double major/triple major.
Furthermore, at the end of a health science course you have the degree but sometimes no clear job prospects. For someone who might not want to do further study after the bachelor it can make career options limited, despite having higher education. I would recommend other courses from deakin such as teaching, nursing, business, marketing etc that still allow option for movement through the course but gives a graduate a better chance of finding a job straight after uni.
Plus, they could do a different masters course if they didn't want to pursue a career in their degree. I enjoyed some of the units in my health science degree but i wish someone had warned naive, 18yo me about how broad of a degree it is.
Short teaching blocks, some great lecturers, only a couple that weren’t so great. Nice learning environment.
Negatives: parking can be difficult
My advice to future students is: Prioritise study, stay on top of it, make it worthwhile for yourself
Read moreShort teaching blocks, some great lecturers, only a couple that weren’t so great. Nice learning environment.
Negatives: parking can be difficult
My advice to future students is: Prioritise study, stay on top of it, make it worthwhile for yourself
The course is ok, there are parts that are interesting, but overall looking back, I didn't enjoy it.
My advice to future students is: Figure out what you like during school time.
Read moreThe course is ok, there are parts that are interesting, but overall looking back, I didn't enjoy it.
My advice to future students is: Figure out what you like during school time.
Positive: flexibility in course direction and majors
Negative: unknown job opportunities upon completion
My advice to future students is: Do what you enjoy
Read morePositive: flexibility in course direction and majors
Negative: unknown job opportunities upon completion
My advice to future students is: Do what you enjoy