Program Overview

Bachelor of Science (Health Promotion), Bachelor of Science (Health and Safety)

Overview

This accredited double degree develops your expertise in both health promotion and occupational health and safety. As a graduate, you can choose to work within either discipline over your career, or you can pursue a career that combines both.

Your first year is interprofessional and taken with other health sciences students. You'll then learn how to promote health by creating healthy environments, informing policies and laws to support healthy choices, and strengthening people’s ability to plan and take action to achieve healthier outcomes.

The occupational health and safety component gives you the skills to contribute proactively to risk management and assessment, and help prevent injuries and disease in the workplace.

You'll participate in an on-campus health promotion campaign and in fieldwork visits so that you can experience health and safety in action. You'll also develop your practical skills by completing 350 hours in professional placements, in both health promotion and health and safety organisations.

What jobs can the Health Promotion and Health and Safety course lead to?

Careers

• Health Promotion officer
• Occupational health and safety officer
• Policy officer
• Workplace wellness coordinator
• Youth health coordinator

Industries

• Community health
• International aid
• Local and state government
• Public and private health services
• Research and development

What you'll learn

• apply health promotion concepts and practice to enhance the health and well-being of populations; demonstrate an understanding of human health, illness and wellbeing from a biological and social context; apply and integrate knowledge and practice required for the prevention of injury and disease in the workplace
• critically analyse issues relevant to health promotion; think creatively to generate innovative solutions to promote health; apply logical and rational processes to critically analyse issues relevant to OHS and think creatively in the generation of solutions to problems
• access, evaluate and synthesise relevant information to develop sustainable health promotion programs; access, evaluate and synthesise relevant information and evidence from the range of resources available in the field of OHS and use appropriate information and communication technology practices
• communicate with professionals and community members to promote health using effective written and oral communication; emphasise the significance of health promotion and health and safety research to the scientific community using effective methods of communication; communicate effectively with a range of people including community groups, workers, employers, statutory authorities and their representatives and other professionals
• effectively use new and existing technologies to gather information, analyse data and communicate; use scientific and technological methods with an understanding of their advantages and limitations
• take responsibility for own learning and professional development in the health promotion and health and safety field
• apply international perspectives and principles to health promotion and health and safety
• demonstrate understanding and respect for individual human rights and cultural diversity
• demonstrate independence and leadership in project management; demonstrate professionalism and capacity for leadership and be able to work independently, collaboratively and ethically

Professional recognition and accreditation

This course is accredited in Australia by the Australian Occupational Health and Safety Education Accreditation Board (Safety Institute of Australia), in the UK by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and internationally by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education.

Admission criteria

ATAR pathway

• Guaranteed ATAR 70
• Essential WACE subjects (prerequisites): There are no essential WACE subjects for this course.
• Desirable WACE subjects: At least one Science course from the following list:
  • Biology ATAR
  • Chemistry ATAR
  • Earth and Environmental Science ATAR
  • Human Biology ATAR
  • Integrated Science ATAR
  • Physics ATAR
  • Psychology ATAR

Alternative pathways

• UniReady: If you don’t meet our minimum admission criteria, the UniReady Enabling Program can help you qualify for entry into a range of undergraduate courses.
• Certificate IV + English Competency: The certificate IV is the minimum requirement for university entry. It qualifies you for entry to Curtin courses with a 70 ATAR. You must also meet English language proficiency and check that you meet any extra subject prerequisites (where applicable).
• Indigenous applicant: If you’re an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicant who hasn’t met Curtin’s minimum admissions criteria, the Centre for Aboriginal Studies offers bridging courses that are tailored to help you gain entry into this course.
• STAT entry: The Skills for Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) is a national test for those who don't meet university admission criteria. STAT can be used to meet entry criteria for some courses, or as a way to satisfy Curtin’s English proficiency requirements.

English requirements

• IELTS Academic (International English Language Testing System):
  • Writing: 6
  • Speaking: 6
  • Reading: 6
  • Listening: 6
  • Overall band score: 6.5

Fees and scholarships

Australian and New Zealand student indicative fees

• 2025 Fee year: $9,300* (Commonwealth supported)

Location

• Curtin Perth

How to apply

• Please review information on how to apply for the campus of your choice
• Curtin Perth: Please note that each campus has different application deadlines. View our application deadlines page for further information.