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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf Study, Virtual ClassroomVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 4114yesThe University of Newcastle, Newcastle

    The Syllabus

    • Sex hormones & reproductive systems
    • Eggs & sperm
    • Fertilisation & implantation
    • Obstacles to conception
    • Social policy and fertility rates: global trends in fertility
    • Projection of Australia’s population
    • Policy options to decrease or increase fertility
    • Historical changes in fertility rates

    • Placentation
    • Fetal development/maternal adaptation to pregnancy/ Labour
    • Pregnancy and complications
    • Developmental origins of health & disease
    • Sociological approaches to the intergenerational cycle of disease
    • Social aspects of pregnancy and childbirth

    • The history and importance of contraception
    • Methods of Contraception
    • Effectiveness and Health Risks
    • New technologies in male contraception
    • Contraceptive use in Australia

    • Biological sexual differentiation
    • The social construction of sex and sexuality
    • Psychiatry and homosexuality

    • Infertility
    • Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs)
    • ARTs: now and the future
    • Ethics of ARTs
    • Surrogacy case study

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