Global Utilities

La Trobe University
University Handbook 2010

Faculty Electives

The following electives are available to students from anywhere in the university who have the relevant prerequisites. The list is sorted by year level, teaching period and discipline.

First year subjects
Teaching period Subject code Subject title Credit points
TE-SEM-1 DFS1ANA AUSLAN 1A4 15
TE-SEM-1 DFS1EDS Academic English for Deaf Students 15
TE-SEM-1 HIM1MTA Medical Terminology 15
TE-SEM-1 PHE1CSG2 Culture, Society and the Health and Men and Women 15
TE-SEM-1 PHE1IPC Person Centred Care 15
TE-SEM-2 DFS1ANB AUSLAN 1B4 15
TE-SEM-2 HBS1ESH Health and Design 15
TE-SEM-2 NSG1ENC Essential Nursing Care 15
TE-SEM-2 PHE1BHN Public Health for Nutrition Studies 15
TE-SEM-2 HIM1MTA Medical Terminology 15
Second year subjects
Teaching period Subject code Subject title Credit points
TE-SEM-1 DFS2ANA AUSLAN 2A5 20
TE-SEM-1 HCS2ECS Effective Communication for the Successful Professional1 15
TE-SEM-1 PHE2HSD Health Skills Development 20
TE-SEM-2 HBS2PAS Systemic Pathology 5
TE-SEM-2 PHE2OPH Organisational Psychology of Health Services 20
TE-SEM-2 DFS2ANB AUSLAN 2B5 20
TE-SEM-S HBS2FSA 2,3 Fertility, Reproductive Technology and Society A 10
TE-SEM-S HBS2FSB 2,3 Fertility, Reproductive Technology and Society B 15
TE-SEM-S HBS2RHE 1,3 Reproductive Health 15
TE-SEM-S HBS2RHS 1,3 Reproductive and Sexual Health 10
TE-SEM-2 PHE2CHP Community Health Promotion 20
Third year subjects
Teaching period Subject code Subject title Credit points
TE-SEM-1 DFS3ANA AUSLAN 3A5 20
TE-SEM-1 HBS3DIS2 Drugs in Sport 15
TE-SEM-1 HCS3ECS Effective Communication for the Successful Professional 15
TE-SEM-1 PHE3IGA Introduction to Gerontology A 10
TE-SEM-1 PHE3SEP Sport and Exercise Psychology 15
TE-SEM-1 HIM4PIS Professional Issues 20
TE-SEM-1 POR3PGA Pathological Gait Analysis 15
TE-SEM-2 DFS3ANB AUSLAN 3B5 20
TE-SEM-2 HBS3DIU2 Drugs in Use 15
TE-SEM-2 HBS3TIP2 Topics in Pathophysiology 15
TE-SEM-2 PHE3LDA2 Living with Disability in the Australian Community A 10
TE-SEM-2 PHE3DDA Death, Dying and Grief A 10
TE-SEM-2 PHE3DDB Death, Dying and Grief B 15
TE-SEM-2 PHE3DUA2 Drug Use and Addictive Behaviour A 10
TE-SEM-2 PHE3DUB2 Drug Use and Addictive Behaviour B 15
TE-SEM-2 PHE3IHI 2 Introduction to Health Information Systems 30
TE-SEM-2 PHE3ISB Illness and Spirituality 15
TE-SEM-2 PHE3LDB 2 Living with Disability in the Australian Community B 15
TE-SEM-2 PHE3PPH Psychosocial Perspectives of Health and Illness 15
TE-SEM-S HBS3RHE 3 Reproductive Health 15
TE-SEM-S HBS3RSH 3 Reproductive and Sexual Health 10
TE-SEM-S PHE3HIC Health Informatics for Clinical Practice 15

Key: 1 Can be taken at third year level.

2 Not offered in .2010

3 Offered in block mode over winter vacation on alternate years. Also offered at second-year level.

4. Also offered in block and evening modes.

5. Offered in evening mode.