维多利亚大学

Choose a rewarding career in public health, health services or community development with a health science degree from VU.

Our degree provides the foundations for a range of health and science careers. You’ll study core bioscience, research and public-health topics. From your second year, you’ll choose a health-science or biomedical specialisation in line with your career aspirations.

You’ll graduate with expertise in:

• disease and injury prevention
• health research
• health promotion
• basic epidemiology.

We offer flexible study options and a hands-on approach that will have you job-ready for your chosen career. You’ll graduate with the skills and knowledge to work on government health programs and private-practice initiatives, and with NGOs.

You can progress further in the health field with our top-rated graduate program. Study more-advanced topics and gain high-level research skills with a masters or doctoral degree.

Careers in health science

When you graduate, you may find employment in areas such as:

• public health
• health promotion
• health and community organisations
• pharmaceutical industries
• professional associations
• health foundations
• health administration
• public health research programs
• policy and development
• program development with non-government organisations.
• Education

Course structure

To successfully attain the Bachelor of Health Science, students will be required to complete 288 credit points (equivalent to 24 units) consisting of:

• 96 credit points (equivalent to 8 units) of First Year Core studies;
• 96 credit points (equivalent to 8 units) of Public Health Major studies;

Plus One of the following:

Option A:

• 96 credit points (equivalent to 8 units) of Indigenous Health Major studies;

Option B:

• 96 credit points (equivalent to 8 units) of Minor studies (Two Minor sets in total from the list below).

Students that complete the first year of College Core studies can elect to graduate with the following (Option A) double Major:

• Majors in Public Health and Indigenous Health.

Students that complete the first year of College Core studies and a single Major in Public Health, can elect to graduate with (Option B) two minors to complement their Major, as follows:

• Indigenous Health (HMIIND);
• Health (Sport Science Minor) (SMIHEA);
• Health and Nutrition (HMIHNU), and;
• Bioscience (HMIBIO).

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Critically review selected social, biological, economic, political and environmental determinants of health, well-being and disease and explain how they manifest in both local and global contexts;

2. Evaluate and justify the use of best-evidence based methods and technologies to investigate and propose solutions to contemporary, emerging and future-oriented issues in public health;

3. Apply a broad and coherent knowledge base and skills in the health sciences to analyse predictable, unpredictable and sometimes complex problems which reflect the multi-faceted nature of health, well-being and disease;

4. Conceptually map key ethical, legal and professional components within the domain of health.