Course code: 2157 + Clayton campus + Mid-year entry available + Course coordinator: Judith Watt
In addition to providing an understanding of cultural variation and sensitivities in public statements of lifecycle events, this course prepares celebrants to plan and conduct public ceremonies of grief, such as funerals and divorce, and ceremonies of recognition, such as weddings, namings and majority. The course is designed to provide the training required to practise as a civil celebrant in Australia. In the light of the university's continuing engagement with developments in society and its commitment to the social sciences, it is appropriate that Monash University provide a course in this field.
At the invitation of the Attorney General, the faculty has submitted the course to him for approval as a formal course to provide the necessary training for those seeking to become certified as civil marriage celebrants. Most celebrants work independently.
The course is available to applicants with a bachelors degree or equivalent education and experience, or those who have completed the Faculty Certificate in Civil Ceremonies with grades of credit average (such applicants normally gain 50 per cent credit towards the graduate diploma).
Students complete 48 points comprised of the following units:
All four units will be offered on campus at the Caulfield campus and by off- campus learning in 2003. As each unit in the Graduate Diploma in Civil Ceremonies has an assessment component in performance and presentation skills, all off-campus learning students must attend either one weekend seminar at Monash University or present a video tape of the activity to be assessed, or participate in a video conference for each unit.
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