Qualitative Health Research

This information is for guidance only.

The requirements and progression rules for your study program will be in the Sydney Medical School Handbook.

Course Structure

Credit points required for each program of study

Master		Graduate Diploma		Graduate Certificate
Core Units	24	Core Units	18	Core Units	18
Elective Units	24	Elective Units	18	Elective Units	6
Total	48	Total	36	Total	24

Core Units

Unit of study code	Unit of study name	Credit point (CP) value	Study program	Distance mode
Semester 1 - available units
PUBH5500	Introducing Qualitative Health Research	6CP	Master, Grad Dip, Grad Cert	F
QUAL5002	Qualitative Methodologies & Study Design	6CP	Master, Grad Dip, Grad Cert	F
Semester 2 - available units
QUAL5003	Qualitative Research: Analysis & Writing	6CP	Master, Grad Dip, Grad Cert	F
QUAL5004	Qualitative Health Research Project	6CP	Master	F
Key	F = 'Face to Face' B = 'Blended: face-to-face/online' BM = 'Block mode / Intensive' O = 'Online or distance' P = 'Project'

Elective Units

Unit of study code	Unit of study name	Credit point (CP) value	Delivery mode
BETH5000	Core Concepts in Bioethics	6CP	F, O
BETH5101	Introduction to Ethical Reasoning	6CP	F, O
BETH5201	Ethics and Biotechnology: Genes and Stem Cells	6CP	B, O
BETH5202	Human and Animal Research Ethics	6CP	BM, O
BETH5203	Ethics and Public Health	6CP	BM, O
BETH5204	Clinical Ethics	2CP	BM, O
BETH5205	Ethics and Mental Health	6CP	BM, O
BETH5102	Philosophy of Medicine	6CP	F, O
BETH5103	Biomedicine and Society	6CP	F, O
HPOL5000	Introduction to Health Policy	6CP	B
HPOL5003	Analysing Health Policy	6CP	B
HPOL5008	Evidence into Policy and Practice (NB requires permission from Unit Coordinator)	6CP	F
MIPH5135	Health Systems in Developing Countries	4CP	F
PUBH5021	Global Obesity and Health Promotion	6CP	B
PUBH5118	Aboriginal Health Promotion	4CP	F
PUBH5418	Tobacco Control in the 21st Century	6CP	B
MIPH5014	International Health Promotion	4CP	F
MIPH5117	Diseases of Modernisation	2CP	F
PUBH5414	Public Health Advocacy	2CP	F
MIPH5008	Travel and Tropical Medicine	2CP	F
MIPH5116	Culture and Health	4CP	F
MIPH5115	Women's and Children's Health	4CP	F
MIPH5218	Economics and Global Access to Pharmaceuticals	2CP	F
MIPH5118	Global Perspective on HIV/AIDS	4CP	F, O
PUBH5111	Environmental Health	4CP	B, O
PUBH5115	Alcohol & Drug Use and Health	2CP	BM, O
PUBH5116	Genetics and Public Health - Not running 2012	4CP	BM
PUBH5415	Injury Prevention	2CP	BM
PUBH5419	Falls Prevention in Older People	4CP	O
SEXH5101	Public Health Aspects of STDs	2CP	F, O
SEXH5102	Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS	2CP	F, O
SEXH5205	Advanced Adolescent Sexual Health	6CP	O
Key	F = 'Face to Face' B = 'Blended: face-to-face/online' BM = 'Block mode / Intensive' O = 'Online or distance' P = 'Project'

Additional Electives - for Masters students only

Unit of study code	Unit of study name	Credit point (CP) value	Distance mode
ANTH6915	Ethnographic Method	6CP	F
SCLG6903	New Debates in Social Theory	6CP	F
HSTY6987	Writing the Past	6CP	F
GCST5902	Natures and Cultures of Bodies	6CP	F
MMHU6906	Bodies on Display: Medicine, Museums, Art	6CP	F
MMHU6908	Dignity	6CP	F
HPSC4102	History of Science	6CP	F
LNGS7274	Media Discourse	6CP	F
LNGS7002	Language, Society and Power	6CP	F
LNGS7006	Cross-cultural Communication	6CP	F
LNGS7301	Functional Grammar	6CP	BM
LNGS7004	Register and Genre in English	6CP	F
Key	F = 'Face to Face' B = 'Blended: face-to-face/online' BM = 'Block mode / Intensive' O = 'Online or distance' P = 'Project'

The University of Sydney - Sydney School of Public Health

Qualitative Health Research

Course Structure

Core Units

Elective Units

Additional Electives - for Masters students only

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