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Bachelor of Health Science/Bachelor of Social Work

Course code: 3870 + Course abbreviation: BHlthSc/BSW + Total credit points required: 192 + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time + Managing faculty: Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Peninsula)

Course description

This course provides students who are interested in a career in social work with an overview of health concepts and the health and social care system in which they will be practising. Although the course is principally intended to prepare graduates for a career in social work, the health science major sequence completed by all students also provides a grounding in health promotion and community capacity building.

Special requirements

Police checks

Organisations that host clinical placements may require students to have obtained a police check regarding their suitability to undertake such placements. All enrolled and prospective students are advised that they may be required to obtain and pay for a police check prior to undertaking the clinical placements in this course.

Health requirements

In order to meet health requirements for working in the wards of teaching hospitals and for the protection of other students, and themselves, students may need to comply with certain precautionary procedures. These may consist of confidential tests for immune status (including blood tests and skin tests), receiving vaccines and having x-rays where the evidence indicates that these are appropriate.

Vaccinations

The faculty recommends that all students accept responsibility for having up-to-date immunisations before commencing this course. Recommended immunisations include diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, tuberculosis and hepatitis B.

Course structure

Course requirements

The normal pattern of study is for students to study 24 points per semester. Depending on the point value of units, this may equate to three or four units per semester, or in semesters where a field placement is undertaken, this is reduced to two units plus the placement.

The course is undertaken in the following sequence:

  • The first year is comprised of health science units only.
  • The second year is comprised of five health science units and three social work units.
  • The third year includes three health science units (that complete the health science major sequence); the remainder are social work units (including the first field placement).
  • The final year is comprised of social work units only, including the second field placement.

All units are compulsory core units.

First year
First semester
Second semester
  • HSC1042 Health issues for diverse populations
  • HSC1052 Health and social care systems
  • HSC1062 Mind and body
Second year
First semester
Second semester
Third year
First semester
  • HSC3011 Contemporary health issues
  • HSC3021 Health promotion 2
  • SWK3240 Working with individuals: theory and practice
  • SWK3250 Social work perspectives on human development
Second semester
  • HSC3032 Community partnerships and capacity building
  • SWK3120 Working with families and groups: theory and practice
  • SWK3180 Fieldwork skills and practicum 1
Fourth year
First semester
  • SWK4410 Community work: theory and practice
  • SWK4420 The individual, health and society
  • SWK4430 Cross-cultural social work: theory and practice
  • SWK4440 Social work management: theory and practice
Second semester
  • SWK4450 Social policy and social justice II
  • SWK4460 Critical and creative social work theory and practice
  • SWK4560 Fieldwork skills and practicum II

Contact details

Telephone: +61 3 9904 4466

Email: healthsciences@med.monash.edu.au

Web: www.med.monash.edu.au/healthsciences/

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