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Bachelor of Pastoral Care (Graduate Entry)

Course code/s: Melbourne (HBPC)

This course is only available to applicants who have completed an undergraduate degree or equivalent.

Course structure subject to University approval.

This 240-credit point program is to be taken full-time, over two years, or the part-time equivalent. Study areas include the history of pastoral care provision, pastoral practice methodologies, public health knowledge and skills, knowledge of the Australian health care system, philosophical approaches to key issues in holistic health care provision and selected cultural contexts of human religious and spiritual belief. A major field placement is included in the course.

The curriculum is based on a philosophy of person-centred, holistic care and is taught within an adult-learning model. Students are encouraged to relate their relevant experiences to the theories and practice presented in the program. The curriculum allows graduates entering, with a health sciences background, to take core public health subjects whilst those with a health sciences background, can choose electives from a range of humanities and social science subjects. Students will be encouraged to make their elective choices, in consultation with the course adviser, to complement the knowledge and skills they bring to the program.

Degree requirements

The course will be offered as a two-year (graduate entry) degree for applicants with at least two years of approved tertiary study. Advanced standing may be offered to candidates who have already completed one or more of the required subjects.

Course structure

First year

Teaching period	Subject code	Subject title	Credit points
TE-SEM-1	HLT1IPA	Interdisciplinary Professional Practice	15
or
TE-SEM-1	PHI1CRT	Critical Thinking
or
TE-SEM-1	HUS1PWR	Professional Writing
plus one of
TE-SEM-1	HLT1PHW	Perspectives of Health and Wellbeing	15
or
TE-SEM-1	elective	choice of one of the following: PHI1CRT
plus
TE-SEM-1	electives	students to take two 15cp electives from any faculty in the University, subject to satisfying any prerequisites, for eg. SOC1SAC	30
TE-SEM-2	PHE3DDB	Death, Dying and Grief	15
TE-SEM-2	PHE3ISB	Illness and Spirituality	15
TE-SEM-2	PHE3IPC	Person-Centred Care	15
TE-SEM-2	elective	students to take one 15cp elective from any faculty in the University, subject to satisfying any prerequisites, for eg. SOC1AAB	15

Second year

Teaching period	Subject code	Subject title	Credit Points
TE-SEM-1	PHE2CPR	Communication Processes in Rehabilitation	15
TE-SEM-1/2	elective	students to take one 15cp elective from any faculty in the University (subject to satisfying any prerequisites)	15
plus two of the following
TE-SEM-1	AST2INB	Introduction to Buddhism	20
TE-SEM-1	LIN2CCC	Intercultural Communication	20
TE-SEM-1	PHE2PHP	Principles of Public Health Practice	15
TE-SEM-1	PHE2HED	Health Education Development	15
TE-SEM-1	PHI2MMW	Making of the Modern Western World View	20
TE-SEM-1	SOC2CRM	The Crisis of Meaning in the 21st Century	20
plus
TE-SEM-1/2	PHE5ALP	Action Learning Project	30
and
TE-SEM-2	PHE3PFP	Participatory Field Placement	15
plus at least one of the following
TE-SEM-2	AST2CBS	Contemporary Buddhism, Politics and Society	20
TE-SEM-2	PHE2CHP	Community Health Promotion	15
TE-SEM-2	PHE2LCI	Living with Chronic Illness and Disability	15
TE-SEM-2	PHE3PPH	Psychosocial Perspectives on Health	15
TE-SEM-2	PHI2TAO	Philosophy of Taoism	20
TE-SEM-2	SOC2SHM	Sociology of Health and Medicine	20
TE-SEM-2	SOC2SRS	Sociology or Religion and Spirituality	20