Programme Details

Programme Highlights:

Full-time
Part-time

Expected Duration

1 year

Fees

Self-funded:
HK$201,600

Expected Programme Start Date

September 1, 2025

Application Deadline

Round 1:
12:00 noon (GMT +8), December 02, 2024Round 2:
12:00 noon (GMT +8), February 03, 2025

Description

Full Time (one year, with classes conducted during weekday evenings and occasional weekends)

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Expected Duration

2 years

Fees

Self-funded:
HK$201,600

Expected Programme Start Date

September 1, 2025

Application Deadline

Round 1:
12:00 noon (GMT +8), December 02, 2024Round 2:
12:00 noon (GMT +8), February 03, 2025Round 3:
12:00 noon (GMT +8), April 30, 2025

Description

Part Time (two years, with classes conducted during weekday evenings and occasional weekends)

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Overview

The aim of the MSocSc(Behavioral Health) programme is to provide a systematic and comprehensive training in behavioral health with a solid, culturally relevant and holistic orientation. It is tailored for healthcare and social service professionals who aspire to develop an evidence-based and integrative model of clinical practice in their workplace. The curriculum covers Eastern and Western health philosophies and intervention approaches for the betterment of body-mind-spirit well-being at both individual and community levels.

Students are required to complete four compulsory courses, four elective courses and a practicum or a dissertation.

Entrance Requirements

Applicants shall hold a Bachelor's degree of HKU or an equivalent qualification from a comparable institution, and preferably have a minimum of two years of relevant post-qualification working experience in healthcare disciplines. Candidates with qualifications other than a Bachelor's degree will be considered on their individual merits. Qualifying examinations to test the applicants' abilities to follow the prescribed courses and/or interviews may be conducted.

Applicants with qualifications from a university or comparable institution outside Hong Kong where the language of teaching or examination is not English are required, unless exceptionally exempted, to obtain:

1. a score of 550 or above (paper-based test) or 80 or above (internet-based test) in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL); or

2. a minimum overall band of 6 with no subtest lower than 5.5 in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS); or

3. grade C or above in either the Overseas General Certificate of Education, the International General Certificate of Secondary Education, or the Cambridge Test of Proficiency in English Language.

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Faculty

Faculty of Social Sciences

The Faculty of Social Sciences was established in 1967, and has undergone rapid expansion and significant transformation since. The Faculty has six core Departments/Centre: Geography, Politics and Public Administration, Psychology, Social Work and Social Administration, and Sociology, and Journalism and Media Studies Centre. The Faculty is also the home to eight multidisciplinary research centres. These link scholars in the same field with experts from diversified disciplines in The University of Hong Kong and other research institutions both in Hong Kong, Mainland China and elsewhere in the world; and to provide a convenient focus for research, teaching, professional training, publication and international scholarly exchange and collaboration on specific areas of interest.