Master of Culture Health and Medicine (Advanced)

Master

Blended learning in Canberra (Australia)

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Methodology

    Blended

  • Location

    Canberra (Australia)

  • Start date

    Different dates available

  • Credits

    96

The Master of Culture, Health and Medicine (Advanced) is the only program of its kind in Australia. Drawing on anthropological and other social science perspectives, and technical expertise in health-related research and practice, you will understand the nature of health, sickness, and healing in a local and global context. You will emerge with the skills to undertake social and cultural analysis of health policy and practices.This interdisciplinary program is taught by leading academics, clinicians, and global health practitioners from across the ANU.Many courses in this program are available online. Although the program itself is not available online, it may be possible for some students with a prior cognate degree to complete the program by selecting only courses that are available online; please note that not all courses are available online and so there is a restricted selection available. Students interested in this option can contact the program convenor to discuss their eligibility and course selections.Students enter the Master of Culture, Health and Medicine (Advanced) by transfer from the Master of Culture, Health and Medicine.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Canberra (Australia)
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The Australian National University, ACT 0200

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About this course

A Bachelor degree or international equivalent with a minimum GPA of 6.0/7.0, and the approval of an identified supervisor for the research project/thesis.
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Students must have the written agreement of an identified supervisor in order to enrol in THES8103 Thesis in a specified semester one calendar year in advance of the start date of that semester aves the university or is on leave from the university, will be transferred to the Master of Culture Health and Medicine.

Applicants with a Bachelor Degree or Graduate Certificate in a cognate discipline may be eligible for up to 24 units (one...

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Subjects

  • Supervisor
  • Politics
  • Global
  • Public
  • Healing

Course programme

The Master of Culture, Health and Medicine (Advanced) requires completion of 96 units, which must consist of:

96 units must come from 6000-level, 7000-level and 8000-level courses

A minimum of 48 units must come from completion of 8000-level courses

36 units from completion of the following compulsory courses

CHMD8004 Qualitative Methodologies for Health Research

CHMD8014 Perspectives on Culture, Health and Medicine

THES8103 Thesis

24 units from completion of introductory graduate culture, health and medicine courses from the following list:

ANTH6004 Spirit Rising: Religious Resurgence in its Local Context

ANTH6005 Traditional Australian Indigenous Cultures, Societies and Environment

ANTH6009 Culture and Development

ANTH6017 Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today

ANTH6025 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

ANTH6026 Medicine, Healing and the Body

ANTH6057 Culture and Person

ANTH6064 Anthropology of Environmental Disasters

ANTH6138 Doing Medical Anthropology

ANTH6515 Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity and Livelihood

ANTH6516 Violence and Terror

ANTH6518 Food for Thought: Anthropological theories of food and eating

ANTH6519 Social Animals: anthropological perspectives on animal-human relationships

BIAN6013 Human Evolution

BIAN6119 Nutrition, Disease and the Environment

BIAN6120 Culture, Biology & Population Dynamics

BIAN6512 Ancient Health & Disease

BIAN6519 Ancient Medicine

BIOL6106 Biosecurity

BIOL6141 Infection and Immunity

BIOL6144 Advanced and Applied Immunology

BIOL6191 Biology, Society and Ethics

CRIM6005 Alcohol, Drugs and Crime: Promoting Health and Preventing Consequences

ENVS6005 Sustainable Urban Systems

ENVS6013 Society and Environmental Change

ENVS6025 Complex Environmental Problems in Action

ENVS6033 International Environmental Policy

ENVS6101 Environment and Society: Geography of Sustainability

ENVS6103 Introduction to Environmental and Social Research

ENVS6104 Australia's Environment

ENVS6108 Sustainable Development

ENVS6306 Human Futures

GEND6021 Trauma, Memory and Culture

GEND6501 Posthuman bodies

HIST6133 Human Variations and Racism in Western Culture, c. 1450-1950

HIST6229 Sexuality in Australian History

LING6015 Language, Culture and Translation

LING6021 Cross Cultural Communication

LING6034 Communication in Health Care

POLS6100 The Politics of Empire

POLS6101 Refugee Politics: Displacement and Exclusion in the 20th and 21st Centuries

A minimum of 6 units from completion of health courses from the following list:

CHMD8009 Anthropological Approaches to Health Interventions

CHMD8010 Anthropological Concepts for Health Research: From Risk to Suffering

A maximum of 30 units from completion of applied culture, health and medicine courses from the following list:

ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development

ANTH8009 Development in Practice

ANTH8014 Mining, Community and Society

ANTH8038 Critical Issues in Gender and Development

ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development

ANTH8047 Land Rights and Resource Development

ASIA8048 Disasters and Epidemics in Asia and the Pacific

BIOL8021 Health and Disease in a Changing World

CHMD8001 Directed Readings in Culture, Health and Medicine

CHMD8005 Representing Medicine: Performance, Drama and Identity

CHMD8006 Global Health and Development

CHMD8008 Medicine and Society in History

CHMD8011 Refugee Health: From Displacement to Resettlement

CHMD8013 Life, Waste and Sustainability

CHMD8019 Culture, Health, Medicine Internship

CHMD8020 The Future of Food and Human Health

CHMD8021 Indigenous Medicines, Health and Healing

CHMD8022 Biotechnologies in Biomedicine

DEMO8048 Gender and Population

EMDV8001 Environmental Sustainability, Health and Development

HIST8018 A Globalising World

HIST8023 History Incorporated: Early Modern Bodies, 1550-1750

IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy

INDG8001 Australian Indigenous Development

INDG8002 Australian Indigenous Development (Advanced)

INDG8003 Understanding Indigenous Wellbeing: Demographic and Socioeconomic Change

LAWS8237 Health Law and Bioethics

MEDI8111 Custodial Medicine Elective

MEDI8116 Public Health disasters, catastrophes and recovery

NSPO8013 Disease, Security and Biological Weapons

PASI8004 Pacific Health Challenges and Strategies: Politics, Culture and Development

POGO8029 Health Policy in a Globalising World

POPH8103 Introduction to Health Services Research and Policy

POPH8104 Contemporary Issues in Public Health

POPH8108 Social Determinants of Health

POPH8318 Human Health, Environment and Climate Change

POPH8918 Life Course Approaches to Human Ageing

POPM8001 Mental Health

SCOM8014 Communicating Science with the Public

Students must have the written agreement of an identified supervisor in order to enrol in THES8103 Thesis in a specified semester one calendar year in advance of the start date of that semester. Students who do not have the written agreement of an identified supervisor one calendar year in advance, or whose agreed supervisor either subsequently leaves the university or is on leave from the university, will be transferred to the Master of Culture Health and Medicine.

Unless otherwise stated, a course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list.

Master of Culture Health and Medicine (Advanced)

Price on request