Course description
Fees and charges
Equivalent Full Time Student Load (EFTSL)
EFTSL is the standard annual full time load. Eight credit points is the standard full time load for one year of study. If you are studying a graduate certificate of 4 credit points, your total course EFTSL is 0.5.
This is a fee-paying course. Domestic students may be eligible for FEE-HELP assistance in paying these tuition fees. For more information about FEE-HELP go to http://www.deakin.edu.au/future-students/fees/.
Fee paying place - Domestic (DFP)
A Fee paying place is one for which the university does not receive any government funding. As such, students enrolled in these places are required to contribute the full cost of their course.
Fee paying places are available to domestic students. Domestic students are those who are Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens or holders of a permanent visa.
* The 'indicative annual course fee' cited has been provided as a guide only. It has been calculated on the basis of a typical enrolment of a student undertaking the course in 2009, and reflects the cost involved in undertaking a full-time quota of units within the specified discipline.
The actual fees charged by Deakin University will depend upon the discipline from which each individual unit is chosen, and may vary from the indicative course fee cited, particularly if units are chosen from a number of disciplines.
Please note that the fees per unit/credit point may increase annually due to rises in the cost of course delivery and service.
Deakin assumes no responsibility for persons relying on 'indicative course fees' to calculate the total future cost of their course.
Career opportunities
Opportunities exist across a broad spectrum of careers. Increasingly, employers are seeking graduates who are lateral thinkers rather than narrow specialists. This Graduate Certificate provides a means by which graduates can show that they are creative, innovative, able to think outside the confines of their disciplines, can communicate effectively, and be knowledgeable about issues of the day.
Course rules
To qualify for the award of Graduate Certificate of Arts and Sciences, a student must complete 4 credit points of study from the list of nominated units drawn from across the five faculties.
Undergraduate students completing the Graduate Certificate of Arts and sciences will not be eligible to graduate until they have completed their undergraduate degree.
Course structure
The Graduate Certificate of Arts and Sciences will consist of 4 credit points selected from a schedule of approved units drawn from across the five faculties of the University:
ACV111 En Plein Air: Landscape Painting On Site
AIA104 Australian Identities: Indigenous and Multicultural
AIH107 World History Between the Wars 1919 - 1939
AIH108 The World Since 1945: From War's End to the Early 1970s
AIH260 Europe in the Age of Ideologies: 1870-1939
AIP116 Modern Political Ideologies
AIR108 International Relations
ALL201 Literature and Modernity A: From Romanticism to Realism
ALL202 Literature and Modernity B: Literary Modernisms
ASC101 Introduction to Sociology A
ASC102 Introduction to Sociology B
ASP205 World Religions
ASS101 Anthropology 1A: Culture and Imagination
ECA310 Discovering Music A
EXE101 Understanding Children and Adolescents
HBS107 Understanding Health
HBS109 Human Structure and Function
HBS110 Health Behaviour
HDS106 Diversity, Disability and Social Exclusion
HPS111 Introduction to Psychology A
HPS121 Introduction to Psychology B
HSE101 Principles of Exercise and Sport Science
HSE202 Biomechanics
HSE203 Exercise Behaviour
HSE309 Behavioural Aspects of Sport and Exercise
HSH207 Socio-Economic Status and Health
HSH302 Politics, Policy and Health
HSW112 Self and Society
MAA103 Accounting for Decision Making
MAE101 Economic Principles
MAF101 Fundamentals of Finance
MLC101 Business Law
MME101 Communication Skills for University Business Studies
MMH230 Strategic Human Resource Management
MMH349 Industrial Relations
MMK265 Marketing Research
MMK277 Marketing Management
MMM132 Management
MMM240 Organisational Behaviour
MSC120 Business Information Systems
SBB111 Cells, Genes and Diversity
SBB132 Biology: Form and Function
SBC131 Principles of Chemistry
SBF111 Fundamentals of Forensic Science
SBS010 Laboratory Safety Induction Program *
SEP122 Physics for the Life Sciences
SIT101 Fundamentals of Information Technology
SIT102 Introduction to Programming
SIT151 Game Fundamentals
SIT161 Principles of Interactive Media
SIT191 Introduction to Statistics
SQA101 Ecology and the Environment
SQA102 The Physical Environment
SQE136 History of Life
SRA143 Art and Society
SRA010 Safety Induction Program *
SEE010 Safety Induction Program *
* 0 credit point safety unit
Specific Course information
No unit completed from another Deakin University award may be counted towards the Graduate Certificate of Arts and Sciences.
Advanced standing from previous study will not normally be granted.
Students who choose not to graduate with the Graduate Certificate of Arts and Sciences may have their completed units credited towards their undergraduate award, provided this is consistent with that award's course rules.
Admission requirements - general
Deakin University offers admission to postgraduate courses through a number of Admission categories.
In all categories of admission, selection is based primarily on academic merit as indicated by an applicant's previous academic record.
For more information on the Deakin Admissions Policy visit The Guide
Admission requirements - specific
To be eligible for admission into the Graduate Certificate of Arts and sciences applicants require:
* a bachelor degree from an approved institution; or
* qualifications deemed to be equivalent; or
* extensive relevant work experience undertaken at a senior level as deemed appropriate by the Course Selection Team; or
* current enrolment in a recognised undergraduate degree program.
Advanced standing - specific
Advanced standing will not be granted for students entering the Graduate Certificate of Arts and Sciences.
If a student chooses not to graduate with the Graduate Certificate of Arts and sciences, unit may be credited towards their other award, if consistent with that award's course rules.
