UC Health subjects

This major prepares graduates with the knowledge, skills and confidence to work with individuals and groups to enhance well-being.

Sport Coaching

The Bachelor of Sport Coaching (BSpC) is the only specialist sport coaching degree in Aotearoa. With flexible learning and internships, this qualification caters for a wide variety of students.

Public Health

Our graduates gain wide-ranging knowledge and skills in science and health, including experience in critical appraisal and scientific investigation.

Māori and Indigenous Health

Our graduates use, apply and integrate Māori, bicultural and indigenous knowledge and practices in their chosen fields.

Health Sciences

Are you interested in analysing issues in the field of health, and planning how we should be addressing them now and in the future?

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Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and associated biological, cognitive, and social processes in humans and animals.

Society and Policy

Society and Policy focuses on the relationships between health science, health governance, bioethics, and society.

Physical Activity

Physical Activity focuses on developing the skills and knowledge needed to help people and communities make healthier choices and become more physically active.

Performance Analysis

The Performance Analysis is a unique blend of practical application and theory that will immerse you in the sociology, science, theory, and practice of sport and sport coaching.

Physical Education

Physical Education is a popular major for students wishing to follow a recognised pathway to teaching, in particular physical education and health teaching.

Sport Science

Studying Sport Science enables students to specialise in two or three chosen areas of sport science including: sport psychology; exercise physiology; nutrition; biomechanics; strength and conditioning; and performance analysis.

Sports Leadership and Management

Explore the principles and foundations of leadership and management, how they are applied in sport, and the influences of social, cultural, and economic forces.

Strength and Conditioning with Nutrition

The Strength and Conditioning with Nutrition specialisation is targeted at those who wish to train and motivate individuals and teams to help them meet performance and body composition goals.

Adventure Sport and Environment

Adventure Sport and Environment appeals to students with an interest in adventure and exploring Aotearoa

Health Leadership and Management

Extend into strategic and operational roles and develop innovative business solutions for better health outcomes.

Nursing

The Master of Health Sciences Professional Practice (Nursing) and Bachelor of Nursing joint initiative between the University of Canterbury and Ara gives the opportunity for students who already hold a degree relevant to health sciences to gain two further qualifications in just two years.

Counselling

Counselling is a process in which people evaluate themselves, make choices, accept responsibility for those choices and decide on courses of action that are consistent with those choices.

Child and Family Psychology

Our Postgraduate Diploma in Child and Family Psychology was designed to meet market demand for registered psychologists specifically trained to work with children, adolescents and families.

Palliative Care

Palliative care has emerged as a speciality that incorporates inter professional health care provision for people who are living with and dying from active, progressive diseases or conditions that are not responsive to curative treatment.

Taha Hinengaro Health and Wellbeing Practice

Taha Hinengaro Health and Wellbeing Practice endorsement is designed to meet the increasing need for integrated practice models including Motivational Interviewing (MI) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) and counselling interventions skills to support mental health and wellbeing in the community.

Health Science Professional Practice

This degree will appeal to those already employed in the health sector or those wishing to enter health-related employment.

Health Information Management

Training in health information management is increasingly vital to health professionals, who rely on modern information systems.

Health Behaviour Change

Changing behaviours can be difficult, but trained health workers can facilitate change for individuals and communities.

Health and Community

This endorsement helps students understand the intersections between individual health, medicine, and population health.

Sport Science

Courses will draw on sport science research, as well as experts in the field from within and outside UC, to provide students with contemporary knowledge and skills.

Child and Family Psychology

Our postgraduate programmes were created to meet the demand for registered psychologists specifically trained to work with children, adolescents and families.

Talking Therapies

Talking Therapies are therapeutic interventions practised across the expanding mental health and addiction services, as well as in primary care.