Global Utilities

La Trobe University
University Handbook 2013

Diploma in Health Sciences

Course code/s: Bendigo (HDHSB)

Course Coordinator: Virginia Dickson Swift

Contact: ph (03) 5444 7852 email v.dickson-swift@latrobe.edu.au

Course Duration: 1 year

The Diploma in Health Sciences provides a pathway into the Bachelor of Health Sciences and Bachelor of Nursing courses.

Course structure

Students will undertake most of the Faculty's common first-year subjects, together with two compulsory elective subjects.

Teaching period Subject code Subject title Credit points
TE-SEM-1 HBS1HBA Human Biosciences A 15
TE-SEM-1 HLT1IPA Interprofessional Practice A 15
TE-SEM-1 PHE1IDH Individual Determinants of Health 15
TE-SEM-1 HLT1LHS Learning in Health Sciences 15
TE-SEM-2 HBS1HBB Human Biosciences B 15
TE-SEM-2 HLT1IPB Interprofessional Practice B 15
TE-SEM-2 PHE1SDH Social Determinants of Health 15
TE-SEM-2 HLT1CHS Communicating in Health Sciences  15