BHSc Honours Bioethics and Health Law at University of the Witwatersrand

Programme overview

The Bachelor of Health Sciences with Honours in the field of Bioethics and Health Law provides students with the skills to critically think about pertinent ethical and legal issues in health and related sciences. This programme is an introduction to Bioethics and Health Law at the postgraduate level. Students are trained to identify, interpret and resolve fundamental and topical ethical and legal issues in the health context.

Faculty: Health Sciences | Department: Clinical Medicine | Duration: 1 year | Study mode: full-time | Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

What you will study

DESCRIPTION OF COURSEWORK The coursework component is designed as an introductory module in Bioethics and Health Law and aims to enable the achievement of outcomes related to the acquisition of the necessary knowledge, attitudes, and academic skills development of students as bioethicists generally. The coursework component consists of five courses: Introduction to Bioethics Introduction to Health

Career pathways

Completion of the Honours in Bioethics and Health programme will strengthen application to: Masters in Bioethics and Health Law programmes LLM programmes Graduate Entry Medical Programme (GEMP) Bioethics researcher Academic/ University lecturer Ethics and compliance officer Bioethics consultant Research ethics advisor Research ethics officer Administrator for Research Ethics Committee Clinical eth

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Application information

Entry requirements

For admission into this course, a minimum of at least 70% average in final year courses of your Bachelors degree or highest degree obtained. Graduates with health sciences, sciences, humanities, and/or law backgrounds are preferable. Note: Meeting the minimum entry requirements for the programme does not guarantee students a place in this programme. For both South African and foreign nationals PLEASE contact this office for application forms and fees) 2nd floor, Phillip V Tobias Building, 29 Princess of Wales Street Parktown, 2193 Johannesburg. Tel: + 27 11 717 2076 Website: https://www.wits.ac.za/health/faculty-services/research-and-postgraduate-offices/postgraduate-studies/

Tuition is charged per module, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Postgraduate applications are made online at www.wits.ac.za/applications; the closing date for each programme is listed in its course finder entry. The application fee is R200 (not payable by current Wits students applying online), paid via the Self-Service Portal or by EFT to the Wits University Application Fees account at FNB.

Apply through the official page: https://www.wits.ac.za/applications

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