A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 240 credit points (cp) as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless otherwise indicated.
| Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Core Units
(22 units) | 220cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 220 credit points as detailed below. SBI161* Anatomy and Physiology 1 (replaces SBI171 and SBI172 from 2025 - see additional information below)
SBI162* Anatomy and Physiology 2 (replaces SBI171 and SBI172 from 2025 - see additional information below)
SWK102 Communication Skills
HSC111 Ethics in Health Care (replaces HSC210 from 2021)
HSC121 Australia's Healthcare System and Policies
HSC122 Foundations of Public Health
HSC132 Introduction to Health Promotion
HSC202 Social Media and Marketing in Health Promotion
HSC133 Perspectives of First Nations Health (title change 2026) (replaces HSC203 from 2024)
HSC204 Chronic Conditions Management
HSC211 Mental Health Wellbeing
HSC220 Society, culture and health: A sociological introduction (replaces HSC230 from 2021)
HSC233 Epidemiology and Statistics (replaces HSC112 from 2025)
MAN204 Project Management
PHM301 Exploring Public Health
SWK312 Social Research Methods
HSC312 Global and Environmental Health
HSC318 Rural and Remote Health
HSC331 Health Science Community Practicum A (20cp) ##
HSC332 Health Science Community Practicum B (20cp) ## *Students who have completed either SBI171 or SBI172 prior to 2025 should read the course changes and transitional arrangements provided below.
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Specialist Electives
(2 units) | 20cp | Specialist Elective units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below. PSY150 Introduction to Psychology A (replaces PSY140 from 2022)
HSC213 Health Informatics
IAS352 Practices and Skills in Indigenous Community Work
NUT301 Nutrition and Health (replaces SPE320 from 2025)
SWK301 Working with and Developing Communities
SWK313 Engaging with Individual and Families in Partnership |
| | 240cp | Total Credit Points |
Course Rules (unless otherwise indicated in the above course structure) (240cp)
- A maximum of 100 credit points may be taken from 100 level units.
- A minimum of 60 credit points must be taken from 300 level units or above.
- See the Higher Education Course Rules (Award Requirements) in the Units and Courses Policy.
If course commenced prior to 2023:
No more than 20 credit points shall be counted with a grade of "PC" in a Bachelor AQF Level 7 course award and no more than 10 credit points at "PC" may be received at the highest level of the program of learning.
## Work Integrated Learning: Students are required to attend the community health project/placements as allocated by CDU Placement Office.
COURSE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - 2025
SBI171 Anatomy and Physiology 1 and SBI172 Anatomy and Physiology 2 have been replaced by SBI161 and SBI162 from Semester 1 2025.
- Students who have completed BOTH SBI171 and SBI172 prior to 2025 do not need to complete SBI161 or SBI162.
- Students who have NOT completed either SBI171 or SBI172 prior to 2025 should complete the two new units SBI161 and SBI162.
- Students who have completed SBI171 only (and not SBI172) should complete SBI172 in 2025. Students should NOT complete the new unit SBI162.
- Students who have completed SBI172 only (and not SBI171) should complete SBI171 in 2025. Students should NOT complete the new unit SBI161.
SBI171 and SBI172 will be offered for a final time in 2025 but will only be available to students who have completed either SBI171 or SBI172 prior to 2025.
COURSE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - 2022
PSY140 has been replaced by PSY150. Students that have completed PSY140 prior to 2022 should not complete PSY150.
COURSE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - 2021
HSC111 Ethics in Health Care has replaced HSC210 Health Sociology from 2021. Students have completed HSC210 do not need to complete HSC111.
HSC220 Society, culture and health: A sociological introduction has replaced HSC230 Cultural Safety in Health from 2021. Students have completed HSC230 do not need to complete HSC220.
