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Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) with the degree of Bachelor of Health

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Faculty:
Faculty of Human Sciences
Award:
Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) with the degree of Bachelor of Health (BPsych(Hons)BHlth)
Study Mode:
Full-time, Part-time
Attendance Mode:
Internal
Candidature Length:
Full-time: 5 years
Study Period Offerings:
Session 1 (March), Session 2 (August)
General requirements:
Minimum number of credit points for this degree 120
Minimum number of credit points at 200 level or above 60
Minimum number of credit points at 300 level or above 30
Completion of a designated People unit
Completion of a designated Planet unit
Completion of a designated PACE unit
Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below
Note:
Students must complete one designated People unit and one designated Planet unit. One of those units must be taken outside the Department administering the program of study which the student is admitted to, and the other unit must be taken outside the Faculty administering the program of study which the student is admitted to. Units which are already a required unit of the student's program of study will not satisfy the People unit requirement or Planet unit requirement.

In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.

Specific minimum requirements:

Credit points

100 level

Required
3
Drugs Across Cultures (3)
 
ANTH106
Required
3
Human Biology (3)
 
BIOL108
Required
either
or
 
Geographies of Global Change (3)
 
ENVG111
3
Geographies of Global Change (3)
 
GEOP111
Required
3
Demographic Fundamentals (3)
 
MKTG127
Required
3
Introduction to Psychology I (3)
 
PSYC104
Required
3
Introduction to Psychology II (3)
 
PSYC105

200 level

Required
3
Illness and Healing (3)
 
ANTH202
Required
either
or
 
Geographical Perspectives on Population (3)
 
ENVG219
3
Geographical Perspectives on Population (3)
 
GEOP219
Required
3
Contemporary Health Issues (3)
 
HLTH200
Required
3
Psychology, Health and Wellbeing (3)
 
PSY224
Required
3
Social and Personality Psychology (3)
 
PSY234
Required
3
Developmental Psychology (3)
 
PSY235
Required
3
Biopsychology and Learning (3)
 
PSY236
Required
3
Cognitive Processes I (3)
 
PSY246
Required
3
Perception I (3)
 
PSY247
Required
3
Design and Statistics II (3)
 
PSY248
Required
3
Methods of Social Research (3)
 
SOC224

300 level

Required
6
Health Placement (6)
C/P
HLTH300
Required
3
Psychological Science: Putting Theory into Practice (3)
C/P
PSY399
Required
either
or
 
Geographies of Health (3)
 
ENVG350
3
Geographies of Health (3)
 
GEOP350
Required
3
Health Promotion (3)
 
HLTH310
Required
3
Legal, Ethical and Policy Directions in Health (3)
 
HLTH350
Required
3
Design and Statistics III (3)
 
PSY349
Required
3
Research Methods in Psychology (3)
 
PSY351
Required
3
Psychopathology (3)
 
PSY337
Required
3
Principles of Psychological Assessment (3)
 
PSYC332
Required
3
Human Services in the 21st Century: Care, Gender and Institutions (3)
 
SOC322
Required
3cp from
3
ANTH units at 300 level
Required
3cp from
 
Personality (3)
 
PSY336
 
Applied Child Psychology (3)
 
PSY339
 
Principles and Applications of Learning (3)
 
PSY348
3
Appetite: The Psychology of Eating and Drinking (3)
 
PSY352

400 level

Required
12
Thesis
Required
3
Design and Statistics IV (3)
 
PSY418
Required
either
or
 
Ethics and Psychological Assessment (3)
 
PSY471
3
The Scientist Practitioner Model (3)
 
PSYC499
Required
one of
 
Advanced Issues in Developmental Psychology: Child Abuse and Neglect (3)
 
PSY432
 
Psychology at Work: Theory, Research and Application (3)
 
PSY434
 
Introduction to Theories of Counselling (3)
 
PSY465
 
Health Psychology (3)
 
PSY466
3
Advanced Issues in Development Psychology: Challenges Across the Lifespan (3)
 
PSY468
Required
3cp from
 
PSY elective units at 400 level
3
PSYC elective units at 400 level

Balance of credit points required:

 
 
6
Electives

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM

120
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.
 
Units marked with a P are PACE units.