Population Health Honours

Offered by: Faculty of Arts
Convenor: Dr Robert Attenborough
Administration: School of Archaeology and Anthropology

Population Health Honours provides a route for undergraduates with a background in social and/or biological aspects of health to develop honours-level skills and experience relevant to research on health studied at a population level.

Admission Requirements
1. Completion of the requirements for a BA or BSc pass degree plus;
2. 60 units of coursework consisting of:

Completion of one of the following majors: Health, Medicine and the Body; Population Studies; Biological Anthropology; Genetics; Immunology & Microbiology; or Physiology (42 units) plus
At least 18 additional units chosen from either a second of those majors or a major in a discipline included in Health, Medicine & the Body or Population Studies.
70% average or better achieved across all 60 units
The pass degree should usually include completion of an honours research preparation course (BIAN3014 Research Design and Analysis in Biological Anthropology, or approved equivalent in another discipline). The recommendation is where possible to take this course in the last semester of the honours applicant's pass degree.

Honours IV Syllabus:
1. two relevant honours-level courses relevant to population health (20% each)
2. a sub-thesis of approximately 15,000 words on a population health topic (60%)

The coursework components available will be confirmed year by year by the convener, in consultation with the university areas offering them and with the applicants. The most likely coursework components include relevant honours courses in the Faculties (e.g. the population biology theory seminar of the biological anthropology honours program, Arts), and relevant postgraduate courses offered by Demography RSSS (e.g. health demography), the Medical School, and/or the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. Thesis supervision is to be provided by relevant faculties staff with, where so negotiated, co-supervision by other staff, e.g. from Demography or NCEPH.

Courses Offered in 2008

Fourth Year
POPS4105F Population Health IV Honours (full time)
POPS4105P Population Health IV Honours (part time)

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