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UTS的健康科学学士学位是什么？
Core Units and Majors
How to Get into a Bachelor of Health Science at UTS
What’s the Teaching Format?
What’s the Faculty and Culture Like?
UTS的健康科学学士学位是什么？
Health Science isthe non-clinical study of public health which aims to improve the lives of groups and individuals.It’s all about understanding the wider scope of health inequities in populations, andthe issues that arise within social, cultural, economic and political aspects of our health and wellbeing.
Health Science at UTSis a very broad, flexible degree, where you’ll graduate to work across a variety of health-related disciplines. Some of these includehealth promotion, fields that engage in health data, epidemiology and biostatistics, as well asthe ability to track and improve health systems and diseases, illness and injuries。
Either way,you’ll gain essential knowledge of governmental and non-governmental health servicesneeded to pursue a career in the local and global health industry.
Honours
A Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) at UTS can be completed by Health Science graduates throughan extra year of study。
Although honours is a very full on commitment,它将从根本上增强您在健康专业背景下的临床健康研究技能。You’ll be able toanalyse health data and explore research of your own personal health interest to produce a substantial thesis.
Acceptance intohonourswill depend on your results。并非每个毕业生都可以保证获得荣誉的机会 - 因此，如果您想这样做，就必须为此而努力。
Career Paths
A Health Science degree at UTS can provide you with the following career paths:
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- Health promotion
- Advocacy
- Health education
- 电子健康
- Health data and information management systems
- Planning and policy
- Project management and evaluation
- Community development
- Research and consultancy across both public and private health sectors
Core Units and Majors
Core Units
For your first and second year of a Bachelor of Health Science, all your units will be core units – basically, compulsory subjects.
First Year
Here’s a little preview of the types of units you’ll be studying in first year:
| Core Unit | Description |
|---|---|
| 论点，证据和直觉 | In this unit, you’ll develop numeracy, quantitative and critical thinking skills and learn how to apply them to health issues in society. |
| Interpersonal Communication | Efficient interpersonal and intra-professional communication are core skills for individuals working in the healthcare sector, which is what you’ll achieve in this unit. |
| 公共卫生简介 | 该单元将使您能够了解澳大利亚的公共卫生系统。 |
| Introduction to Health Systems | This unit will introduce you to the functional aspects of Australian and global health care systems. |
其他核心的第一年科目包括：
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- Introduction to Health Statistics
- Introduction to Epidemiology
- 健康的心理社会观点
- Principles in Primary Health Care
第二年
在第二年,您将只有wh六个核心单元ich are:
| Core Unit | Description |
|---|---|
| Introduction to Digital Health |
This unit will introduce you to the ways that technology can fundamentally improve health reform, such as delivering clinical care in a safer way and improving the journey of patients. |
| Indigenous Health and Wellbeing | 该部门专注于学习原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民的健康和福祉。 |
| Health Promotion and Advocacy | This subject will introduce you to the practice of health promotion by examining local and national health promotion programs and policies. |
其他核心第二年的科目包括：
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- Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Management
- 健康项目管理
- Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
主要的s
In second and third year, you have the choice to complete a major. These include:
| 主要的 | Description |
|---|---|
| 全球健康 | 了解如何应对和改善个人和不同全球人口的健康。 |
| Health Promotion | Learn how to analyse and improve healthy behaviours across populations and individuals through promotional campaigns and principles. |
| Indigenous Health | Develop extensive knowledge of the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians and how we can help close the gap. |
| Public Health | 通过预防疾病研究和政策方法了解公共卫生的基本要素。 |
| Human Structure and Function | 通过对人体的更深入了解，专门研究生理学，神经科学和解剖学来增强科学思维。 |
You can learn more in theUTSHealth Science Handbook 2021!
安置
In your final year of a Bachelor of Health Science at UTS,you will undertake a placement to gain industry experience at a professional level并为您的健康事业做好准备。通过完成至少140小时with a range of organisations such as theNational Heart Foundation,Cerebral Palsy Alliance和Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), you’ll develop necessary practical skills and be able to cement your career goals.
The best thing about placements is that you’ll not only have the choice to complete a placement of your own interest, butyou’ll be given fundamental networking opportunities that can secure you a job after you graduate。
These sorts of placements aren’t offered for health science students at other prestigious universities like USYD, so this is a massive advantage.The School of Public Health also help you source these placements, rather than having to source them yourself（这是UTS体育，运动和康复学院所做的）。
How to Get into a Bachelor of Health Science at UTS
If you’re wanting to全日制学习三年,the ATAR cut off is 73。但是，如果您只能学习六年的兼职时间，那么ATAR切断为74.05。
假设知识
没有先决条件为本科科目of Health Science at UTS, butit is recommended you complete either Standard or Advanced English in Year 12。If you want to major in Human Structure and Function, it’s probably a good idea to have done Biology in Year 12 as well.
Scholarships
The健康院长的奖学金isvalued at $10,000并且是eligible for the highest ATAR undergraduate student within the UTS Faculty of Health。This student must also have this degree as their first UAC preference and demonstrate initiative and motivation to succeed within a Bachelor of Health Science.
What’s the Teaching Format?
UTSdelivers its degrees overtwo semesters per year,so you won’t have to worry about trimesters like students at UNSW! You’ll mainly have classes that are lectures or workshops – which are similar to tutes.
讲座
在您的讲座中，您通常会被包围60 to 80 other students和you’ll learn a lot of theoretical concepts but you won’t really get to put them into practice. Don’t get too complacent though – you’ll need to remember the content from lectures to make the most out of your workshops.
Workshops
Within workshops, your class size is much smaller with只有大约15名学生attending. You’llmostly undertake collaborative group work rather than individual work,but this depends on the subject you’re doing.
小组工作将使您能够reflect, engage and adapt the theories and health practicesyou’ve learnt from your lecturers and tutors.Feedback sessions and community engagement activitieswill also be performed.
Inthird year, you’ll have some subjects taught by two tutors, so classes will be bigger but the second tutor compensates for the size.
How much time will you spend at university?
The number of contact hours a week is usually10至15个小时（每学期四个单元）depending on the subjects you’ve chosen. You’ll usually havetwo hour lectures and one hour workshops, but these can vary.
每个主题的出勤率是每周两次– for both the lecture and the workshop.
Assessments
Assessments within a Bachelor of Health Science at UTS are balanced with bothexams and assignments。将有quizzes(worth 20% of your final grade),group presentation and/or essay(worth 45% of your final grade),sometimes a random (but more fun!) assessment task like an alternative reality game(which can be worth 45% of your final grade), and often a学期考试的最后结局(worth 40%).
These end of semester exams normally consist ofmultiple-choice and short-answer questions.
Skills That You Refine and Learn
A Bachelor of Health Science at UTS will develop your跨学科技能so you can gain a wider understanding of health.
You’ll learn how toutilise and interpret datato improve health in a local and global context, and you’ll also know how to批判性思考in order to confront and prevent issues within the healthcare sector. Not to mention thestrong health communication, statistics and specialist skills还将进行完善 - 所有这些对卫生行业的雇主都非常重要。
What’s the Faculty and Culture Like?
Faculty
The UTS Faculty of Healthis quite large as itcaters for the School of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation and the School of Public Health(which is what Health Science is under).
That said, the School of Public Health has在临床，教育，研究和政策保健角色方面拥有丰富经验的高素质，领先的学术人员。Their knowledge of the latest research in public health is quintessential to teaching a degree of Health Science at UTS.
文化
Students of a Bachelor of Health Science degree at UTS can choose to become a part of UTSMedical and Health Society (MedSoc)。Medsoc是一个有趣，充满活力的俱乐部allows for all UTS health students to unite and enhance their professional and academic skills, whilst getting involved in lively social events.
由于UTS卫生学院很大，成为MEDSOC的一部分将使您有机会与其他与您有很多共同点的学生保持联系。They also host SciBall every year!
If you’re struggling academically, MedSocruns fortnightly study sessions to all members/health students。这些会议也将give you the chance to meet others doing the same degree as you,和work together through academic content.
Support Programs
ActiveUTSis a service at UTS that isall about enhancing your university experience.最近，他们一直在为UTS学生举行校园和缩放正念课程，以便为了促进心理健康和福祉，并促进同伴联系。
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Isabelle Plastois a Content Writer at Art of Smart Education and in her third year of a Media and Communications degree at the University of Sydney, majoring in Digital Cultures. You can find her work published in Dementia Australia’s August 2020 eNewsletter, an organisation very close to her heart. Apart from writing, Issy loves to travel, cook and boogie to 70s disco music.
