Gender and Women's Health

Major/Minor/Specialisation !244-CW-SPC+1007 (2015)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2015.

Year and Campus: 2015

Coordinator

Dr Rebecca Bentley

Contact

brj@unimelb.edu.au

OR

Academic Programs Office
Melbourne School of Population Health
Tel: +61 3 8344 9339
Fax: +61 3 8344 0824
Email: sph-gradinfo@unimelb.edu.au

Overview:

Students specialising in Gender and Women’s Health will acquire knowledge about gender and the social determinants of health. The specialisation will provide students with the tools to explain and measure the ways in which gender affects heath, including how women's and men's positions in society shape health outcomes across the lifespan. Another focus of the stream is women’s health from a global perspective. On completion, students will have the capacity to develop public health strategies that take into account the role of gender. This specialisation provides professional education for graduates who work or intend to work as researchers, clinicians, educators, policy makers or health promotion practitioners in the expanding fields of gender and women's health. Students can apply to undertake a Research Project in Gender & Women’s Health, in which they may either use qualitative or quantitative social research methods or epidemiological approaches to examine problems related to gender or women’s health.

Learning Outcomes:

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Structure & Available Subjects:

Standard 200 Point Program (no Advanced Standing):

FIVE core subjects and TEN elective subjects and the Capstone Selective POPH90227 Public Health in Practice OR
FIVE core subjects, NINE elective subjects and either a Research Project or Professional Practice unit

Students granted 25 Credit Points Advanced Standing:

FIVE core subjects and EIGHT elective subjects and the Capstone Selective POPH90227 Public Health in Practice OR
FIVE core subjects, SEVEN elective subjects and either a Research Project or Professional Practice unit

Students granted 50 Credit Points Advanced Standing:

FOUR core subjects and SEVEN elective subjects and the Capstone Selective POPH90227 Public Health in Practice OR
FOUR core subjects and EIGHT elective subjects and either a Research Project or Professional Practice unit

Subject Options:

Core Subjects

Student must complete POPH90217 unless they have been granted 50 points Advanced Standing (150 point program) or an exemption has been granted.

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 1
12.50
Semester 1
12.50

Highly Recommended Electives

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 1
12.50

Other Recommended Electives

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:

Pre-requisite Subjects for the Research Project Option

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 1
12.50
Semester 1
12.50
Semester 1
12.50

Pre-requisite subjects for a combined research project in Epidemiology/Gender & Women's Health

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 1
12.50
Semester 1
12.50
Semester 1
12.50

AND one of the following:

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
September
12.50

Pre-requisite subjects for a combined research project in Social Sciences/Gender & Women's Health

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 1
12.50
Semester 1
12.50

Research Project

Students may apply to enrol in a Research Project in Gender/Women's Health. Students entering the Master of Public Health from 2011 must have a weighted average mark of at least 70% for all relevant subjects to be eligible to enrol in the research project. Successful research project applicants will be selected on the basis of academic merit.

Those students who do undertake (or are currently enrolled in) the Research Project please note the following important information:

  • Students who have already completed one semester of their Research Project will be completing their project over two semester’s (12.5 points per semester) so please enroll in the remaining semester.
  • Students who have not commenced their Research Project have the option of applying to enrol in a year-long research project or a semester-long research project.
Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 1, Semester 2
12.50
Related Course(s): Master of Public Health

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