Degree Structure

Master of Culture, Health and Medicine (general degree)

A one-year full time program leading to the degree of Master of Culture, Health and Medicine would include the following components:

Compulsory courses (12 units):

• CHMD8014 Perspectives on Culture, Health and Medicine (6 units) (CASS)
• CHMD8004 Qualitative Methodology for Health Research (6 units) (CHMS)

Elective courses - 36 units from the following:

• ANTH6005 Indigenous Australian Societies and Cultures (6 units)
• ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development (6 units)
• ANTH8029 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Policy (6 units)
• ANTH8030 Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Practice (6 units)
• ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender and Development (6 units)
• BIAN6512 Ancient health and Disease
• BIOL8021 Health and Disease in a Changing World (6 units)
• CHMD8001 Directed Readings in Culture, Health and Medicine (6 units)
• CHMD8002 Research Project in Culture, Health and Medicine (12 units)
• CHMD8005 Representing Medicine: Performance, Drama and Identity (6 units)
• CHMD8006 Global Health and Development (6 units)
• CHMD8007 Health and Inequality in Latin America (6 units)
• CHMD8008 Medicine and Society in History (6 units)
• CHMD8009 Anthropological Approaches to Health Interventions (6 units)
• CHMD8010 Anthropological Concepts for Health Research (6 units)
• CHMD8011 Refugee Health: From Displacement to Resettlement (6 units)
• CHMD8015 Cultural Epidemiology (3 units, NCEPH)
• CHMD8016 International Migration of Health Workers: Sociological and Ethical Aspects
• DEMO8079 Health  Demography (6 units)
• EMDV8001 Environmental sustainability, Health and Development (6 units)
• GEND6025 Gender, Health and Embodiment (6 units)
• GEND6501 Technoculture and the Body (6 units)
• HIST6111 Healing Powers: Medicine and Society Since 1750 (6 units)
• LAWS2219 Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights (6 units)
• MEDI8203 Introduction to Health Policy and Administration (6 units)
• NSPO8013 Disease, Security and Biological Weapons (6 units)
• PAAE8003 Mental Health Ethics (6 units)
• PAAE8007 Bioethics (6 units)

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