The Faculty of Education offers a range of postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma and masters degree courses, many of which have pathways from the certificate and diploma to the masters level. Postgraduate certificates and postgraduate diplomas are for graduates who have completed a fourth year of post-secondary study, usually in education.
The basic structure follows the articulation pathway outlined below. The admission requirements for the postgraduate certificates, postgraduate diplomas and masters degrees are generally the same. Students normally enrol in the higher-level award and have the option of exiting the course with a postgraduate certificate or postgraduate diploma if the required units for those awards have been successfully completed.
| Postgraduate certificates | Postgraduate diplomas | Masters degrees (72 credit points) - three options | ||
Two
units (24 credit points) |
Four
units (48 credit points) |
Option 1 Six units |
Option 2 Five units, plus 8000-word professional project |
Option 3 Four units, plus 16,000-word thesis |
Three semesters full-time or equivalent |
The Postgraduate Certificate of Education, the Postgraduate Diploma of Education and the Master of Education are designed to meet the needs of educators, educational administrators, managers, policy-makers and others interested in learning and education and in working in the wider educational community. The programs are offered either as a generalist stream or as a series of specialist streams. In the generalist stream, students will be able to choose their units from across the broad spectrum of units offered in any one year. In the specialist streams, units will be specified.
The faculty offers postgraduate courses in curriculum and pedagogy in the following areas:
This area includes postgraduate courses in:
The faculty's offerings in psychology and counselling courses have grown in response to market demand for psychology and counselling knowledge and skills from professional people working in a range of education, community and services-related industries. These studies also support the programs in the faculty's Krongold and Elwyn Morley centres, which provide a range of psychological assessment and counselling services.
This area includes postgraduate courses in:
The faculty offers work, learning and leadership programs for students in a range of human service and corporate sector organisations in the following areas:
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