Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000

Biomedical science

The Bachelor of Biomedical Science includes major contributions from many of the departments of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science. It has the following attributes:
(a) The degree is structured to permit articulation into at least one of many specific health and biomedical careers and appropriate higher level studies in the biomedical sciences area.
(b) Students have the opportunity to study subjects from a wide range of faculties as part of the degree structure. Several faculties (Arts, Business and Economics, Computing, Law, Science) are offering elective subjects for Bachelor of Biomedical Science students. The overall structure of the course permits students to choose up to eight subjects from outside the Faculty of Medicine.
The degree encompasses a range of new, interdisciplinary, core subjects to cover all areas of the modern biomedical sciences, human biology and public health. These include aspects of anatomy, biochemistry, clinical medicine, epidemiology and preventive medicine, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology and psychology. The core subjects have been designed to provide the student with the skills necessary to understand and investigate the functions of humans and other mammals and include aspects of the traditional biomedical sciences.
There is a range of multidisciplinary electives, as well as discipline-specific electives in the degree. A major aim of the course is that the innovative, interdisciplinary subject offerings will enable graduates to have advanced proficiency in one or more curriculum streams, which they will be able to develop by the third year of the degree.
The course is student-oriented and takes all opportunities to offer subjects with as much flexibility as possible, encompassing a wide range of teaching and learning approaches.