Bachelor of Health Sciences
La Trobe University
Type of institution: University/Higher Education Institution
Level: Undergraduate
CRICOS: 00115M
Build your future in Australia's fastest-growing sector. Healthcare is Australia's largest and fastest-growing industry. With an aging population and a variety of emerging health issues, there's a huge need for skilled professionals in a wide range of areas across healthcare - in Australia and around the world. Create a rewarding career in Australia's fastest-growing sector by changing the lives of individual people and whole populations with La Trobe's Bachelor of Health Sciences. Examine the way our minds, society, environment and political structures affects the health of individuals, families and communities at local, national and international levels. Broaden your expertise with a choice of nine majors and the option of second majors and minors in health sciences or a range of other disciplines. By completing La Trobe's Bachelor of Health Sciences, you will: build your skills in scientific thinking, lab and fieldwork, problem solving, collaboration, professional conduct and scientific communication study how it suits you with options to study on campus or online, as well as Diploma and Associate Degree early exit options choose from majors in allied health, digital health, environmental health, food and nutrition, health promotion, health, wellbeing and performance, psychological science, public health, and rehabilitation counselling graduate ready to make real impact on health policy and practice in areas such as digital health, environmental health, nutrition or health promotion - or, depending on your choice of major, gain a pathway into postgraduate allied health and other health degrees, including audiology, physiotherapy, speech pathology and occupational therapy.
Structure
- To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Health Sciences, students must complete 360 credit points as follows: 60 core credit points 60 elective credit points 120 major credit points
- and Remaining 120 credit points select from:
- 120 additional major credit points OR
- 60 minor credit points and 60 electives credit points OR
- 120 electives credit points
Subjects
- Majors Include: Digital Health
- Environmental Health
- Health Promotion
- Health, Wellbeing and Performance
- Psychological Science
- Public Health
- Rehabilitation Counselling
Standard entry requirements
- Recent secondary education - VTAC prerequisite: Year 12 English prerequisite (20) - Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 20 in English other than EAL.
- Recent secondary education - UAC prerequisite: Year 12 subject prerequisite - One of English Standard, English Advanced (Band 2), English as an Additional Language or Dialect (Band 3).
- Non Year 12 - Vocational Education & Training: VET prerequisites - Course specific requirements - Subject proficiency: Demonstrated proficiency equivalent to stated Year 12 prerequisites.
- Non Year 12 - Higher Education study: HE prerequisites - Course specific requirements - Subject proficiency: Demonstrated proficiency equivalent to stated Year 12 prerequisites.
- Non Year 12 - Higher Education study: HE prerequisites - Course specific requirements - To be eligible for an offer of admission into the Bachelor of Health Sciences at La Trobe University, an applicant must:
- Meet the stated criteria for Year 12 or Non Year 12 admission,
