Combining Arts with Health Sciences provides you with powerful communication and critical thinking skills coupled with a strong technological or scientific base to improve health outcomes for individuals and groups.
Discover the Bachelor of Arts
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What is a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Health Sciences?
This course leads to two separate degrees:
- the Bachelor of Arts, and
- the Bachelor of Health Sciences.
You’ll gain all the benefits of each degree course and be fully equipped to pursue a career in either field separately or to combine the two in your chosen work.
The Bachelor of Arts offers you 30+ areas of study to choose from, such as, bioethics, psychology, sociology, languages and communications, and provides you with an essential skill set, effective communication, interpersonal skills, empathy, critical thinking, cultural awareness and a global outlook.
The Bachelor of Health Sciences develops through three themes: Personal and professional development; Population, communities, health and illness; and Scientific basis of health care practice; and allows you to apply scientific approaches to improve health challenges, keeping in mind physiological, behavioural, developmental, social and environmental aspects of human health.
Jobs with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Health Sciences degree?
Studying Arts and Health Sciences opens the door to a range of exciting career opportunities in health and human relations. You’ll be enabled to improve human health outcomes whilst considering physiological, behavioural, developmental, social and environmental aspects of human health and disease.
Your unique human approach to identifying, investigating, analysing and assessing health issues will prepare you for work in communications, health education, marketing, policy design, public health campaigns, bioethics, community development, mental health support, health and wellbeing, and so much more.