Health & Wellness Sciences

Faculty Overview

The Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences offers a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes acknowledged nationally and internationally as being of high quality. The faculty consists of seven departments, as indicated below, and our dedicated academic staff will ensure that you reach your full potential and, ultimately, achieve your career goals.

• Department of Biomedical Sciences
• Department of Dental Sciences
• Department of Emergency Medical Sciences
• Department of Medical Imaging & Therapeutic Sciences
• Department of Nursing Sciences
• Department of Ophthalmic Sciences
• Department of Wellness Sciences

These academic leaders believe that interdisciplinary, diverse, and inclusive education and research are critical to our educational success in an ever-changing society. Emphasis is placed on experiential learning before graduation. Students are provided real-world training opportunities and professional development through work placements arranged in collaboration with strong partnerships such as the Western Cape Department of Health, National Health Laboratory Service, and numerous private health providers. All students who graduate from this faculty will thus have the knowledge, professional competencies, attributes, and values to enable them to enter professional practice confidently and proudly serve society.

The Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences' mission is to be a proud African technology-driven faculty taking the lead in relevant health and wellness education, research, and innovation in response to provincial, national, and global socio-economic imperatives. We aim to empower agile graduate healthcare professionals who are ethically responsive to industry and societal needs through academic excellence and lifelong learning, together with the pursuit of relevant, pioneering research and clinical innovation to improve the health of individuals both locally and globally.

The faculty's research responds to problems and needs relevant to health, wellness, health care and higher education in South Africa, Africa and globally. As a faculty, we exemplify and build on the CPUT vision of being a research-led teaching institution. Our undergraduate students benefit from teaching supported by current research, and our postgraduate students can access active research supervisors. The faculty is committed to delivering high-quality education. We endeavour to achieve this through a learning culture that recognises our expertise and areas of development, respecting the diversity of staff and students by being people-centred and inclusive at all levels.

We value student engagement in active, self-directed learning, work-integrated learning, and community engagement. We encourage our students to assess existing and new practices and expand their critical thinking skills to respond to the rapid changes of the 21st century.

Lastly, we encourage you to seek guidance and assistance from your respective department as early as possible should you stumble along the way; support structures are in place to help you succeed.

Our core values are

• Unity
• Embrace diversity
• Integrity
• Responsible
• Passionate

Vision

A proud African technology-driven faculty taking the lead in relevant health and wellness education, research and innovation in response to provincial, national and global socio-economic imperatives.

Mission

To empower agile graduate health care professionals who are ethically responsive to industry and societal needs, through academic excellence and lifelong learning together with the pursuit of relevant and pioneering research and clinical innovation which will improve the health of individuals both locally and globally.

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