Build a degree tailored to your interests with a Bachelor of Health Sciences/Bachelor of Arts. This flexible degree allows you to major in fields from both health sciences and arts, tapping into unique course combinations and career opportunities. You can choose your course structure to hone in on whichever niche reflects your individual passions.

Do you want the cross-disciplinary skills to design your own future?

Become a specialist in your chosen field with the combination of a health sciences and arts degree. Choose majors that interconnect and expand your career prospects. You will study equal parts health sciences and arts to ensure you graduate with a skill set in both disciplines.

You will build a solid foundation in health while developing your skills across a range of arts, communications, humanities and social science disciplines. Your options are endless when it comes to choosing your majors and minors. Create original course combinations by choosing majors including (but not limited to):

• advertising
• criminology
• disability and inclusion
• education
• family, society and health
• food studies
• health and sustainability
• health promotion
• international studies
• journalism
• language and culture studies
• media
• physical activity and health
• politics and policy studies
• sociology
• sport and society.

This combined degree provides you with double the opportunity to pursue work-integrated learning experiences and industry practicums, including the Health Science Practicum offered in third year, giving you the option to complete a 120-hour practice education placement.

You will gain invaluable experience by immersing yourself in your chosen field – help design public relations campaigns for major food companies or work in the community through health education programs.

You will also have the opportunity to experience different cultures by taking your studies abroad. You could find yourself visiting the International Institute of Health Sciences in Sri Lanka, or studying politics and policy in Norway. Gain a global perspective that will give you an international outlook and a competitive edge.

Studying a combined degree will advance your knowledge in the areas of health science and arts and provide you with the opportunity to develop a unique skill set that will set you apart from the rest. Take the opportunity to follow your passions and design your journey at Deakin.

Your career outcomes will depend on the majors you complete with this degree.

Studying health sciences could lead you into careers in areas such as:

• community health
• counselling
• disability and inclusion
• environmental health
• health education
• health promotion
• nutrition
• psychological science
• regional health service planning
• sports development.

An arts degree provides you with solid transferable skills that can be applied across industries and careers. Depending on your majors, you could find yourself in fields such as:

• advertising and marketing
• business
• education
• ethnic affairs
• government
• international relations
• media
• politics and policy
• public relations.

Your majors could also help you pursue careers where your degrees overlap. Careers such as health media, food writing and public relations for health and food organisations all require the skills acquired from both health science and arts degrees.