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Units indexed by faculty Bachelor of Biomedical ScienceCourse code: 2230 + Course abbreviation: BBiomedSc + Total credit points required: 144 + 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time Study mode and course locationOn-campus (Clayton) Course descriptionThe Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree will be characterised by providing:
Course structureThe course is designed as a series of interlinked and consecutive sequences of units. This allows students to readily acquire fluency and proficiency in the concepts, language and fundamentals of the biomedical sciences. The distinctive feature of this educational approach is that students are allowed some flexibility in their choice of units so that they are able to construct a sequence of studies suitable to their own requirements and career aspirations. Areas of studyAll students in the Bachelor of Biomedical Science course will complete a program which is a combination of core and elective units. Every semester, students will receive more detailed information about all core and elective units from unit convenors and individual unit manuals. These manuals contain detailed information on teaching staff, contact persons, timetables, textbooks, reading guides, supplementary lecture material, details and weighting of assessment methods and procedures including some specific assessment dates. Manuals are available at the commencement of each semester. Course requirementsThese course requirements apply to students commencing studies in 2006 -- all other students should refer to the course structure in the handbook for the year in which they commenced their studies. First yearFirst semester
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Elective unitsIn third year, students must take two elective units each semester from the biomedical sciences areas (generally these units begin with the prefixes ANT, BCH, BME, BND, BNS, CEL, GEN, HUP, IMM, MIC, PHA and PHY). Up to six units may be taken from outside the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. The following faculties offer units suitable as electives in various years of the program. Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health SciencesStudents may choose from elective units from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Some of the units offered in the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics and in the Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience are available as electives to students undertaking the Bachelor of Biomedical Science, provided they do not overlap with core units. First-year electivesThe Department of Psychological Medicine offers BME1130 (Health and human behaviour). The Department of Physiology, together with the Faculty of Arts, offers a pair of first-year elective units, BME1111 (Science, culture and origins) and BME1120 (Human affairs: health, environment and sexual difference). Nutrition and Dietetics offers three first-year elective units: BND1032 (Social nutrition), BND1010 (Human nutrition: an introduction to nutrients) and BND1022 (Food chemistry). Faculty of ArtsFirst-year electivesIn principle, all first-year Faculty of Arts units are available as electives for the Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree, subject to their availability, timetable considerations and the rules and regulations of the Faculty of Arts. These include several language units and units from philosophy, geography, sociology, history and politics. Several of these are also available by off-campus and flexible modes. For full details of units and discipline areas, consult the Arts section of this handbook. Second and third-year electivesThe Faculty of Arts has several possible elective units at later year levels, which includes languages, philosophy and geography. For full details of units and disciplines areas, consult the Arts section of this handbook. Faculty of Business and EconomicsFirst-year electivesStudents may choose up to two electives from the discipline areas accounting and finance, business law and taxation, economics, econometrics and business statistics, management, and marketing. For full details of units and discipline areas, consult the Business and Economics section of this handbook. Second and third-year electivesStudents may choose up to two second-year and four third-year electives from all discipline areas in the faculty, provided unit prerequisites are met. For full details of units and discipline areas, consult the Business and Economics section of this handbook. Faculty of EngineeringStudents may choose units offered by the Faculty of Engineering. For full details of units and discipline areas, consult the Faculty of Engineering section of this handbook. Faculty of LawThe Faculty of Law has agreed to make available a small number of places in certain units to suitably qualified students. Students wishing to be considered for these units need to consult with the Faculty of Law. Faculty of Information TechnologyThe Faculty of Information Technology is reviewing the development of elective units for the second and third year of the degree. Faculty of ScienceStudents may choose from several units offered by departments from the Faculty of Science. The Department of Mathematics in first year and the Department of Biological Sciences in second and third year are offering several elective units. Students need to be aware that some of the science units may overlap with those of the biomedical sciences (core BMS units) and to refer to the unit outlines and the prohibitions. Contact detailsTelephone: +61 3 9905 1212 Email: biomed@med.monash.edu.au Web: www.med.monash.edu.au/biomed/ Previous page | Next page | Section contents | Title and contents |