Build a degree tailored to your interests with a Bachelor of Health Sciences/Bachelor of Arts. This flexible and diverse degree will equip you with a unique skill set that will unlock wide-ranging career opportunities and give you a competitive edge in the job market. With over 45 major options, you will develop specialist knowledge in your chosen disciplines and learn how to apply critical, creative and strategic thinking to solve real-world issues.
Explore meaningful ideas that matter to you with your arts studies. Get the critical thinking, communication and leadership skills needed to address current and emerging global challenges in a rapidly changing world. Along with your research, analysis and problem-solving skills you will be highly employable in many areas and prepared for a successful career in the largest and fastest-growing employment sector in Australia, with over half a million new jobs projected in the health care and social assistance sector by 2033.*
Are you looking to develop a cross-disciplinary skill set that empowers you to design your own future?
This combined degree gives you the freedom to choose majors based on your interests to connect and expand your career prospects. You will study equal parts health sciences and arts, ensuring you graduate with a well-developed skill set in both disciplines.
Build a solid foundation in health while developing your skills across a range of arts, communications, humanities and social science disciplines. Create original course combinations by choosing majors including (but not limited to):
- strategic advertising
- criminology
- disability and inclusion
- education
- family, society and health
- food studies
- health, nature and sustainability
- health promotion
- indigenous studies
- international relations
- sport journalism
- media and communication
- physical activity and health
- politics and policy studies
- public health
- sociology
- sport and society.
Do you have a desire to make a difference in the world or want to make an impact in your community? Then the Global Challenges minor may be for you. You will learn how to approach, understand and respond to the large challenges that face us today. Advance your creativity and critical thinking whilst taking your communications skills to the next level. You will become a future leader ready to problem solve the challenges you face.
The Employability units provides real life experience during your course to develop the kinds of skills you will need in the workplace and demonstrating how to translate the skills you learn in your course into a successful career. Customisable to suit your interests, you can focus on leaderships skills, developing your entrepreneurial mindset or how to craft persuasive communications. It will give you an insight into how different organisations work, provide networking opportunities and real industry engagement that are tailored to your individual career aspirations.
Further opportunities to pursue work-integrated learning experiences and industry practicums are available throughout the course, including the Health Practicum offered in the health promotion major, giving you the option to complete 120 hours of work experience in a health-related organisation.
You will gain invaluable experience by immersing yourself in your chosen field – whether it’s helping to design public relations campaigns for major food companies or working at grassroots level in the community through health education programs.
You may also have the opportunity to experience different cultures by taking your studies abroad. Various in-country and authentic virtual global experiences can be undertaken as part of your studies. Gain a global perspective that will give you an international outlook and a competitive edge.
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*2023 Employment Projections – for the ten years to 2033, Australian Government, Jobs and Skills Australia.