The UTS Online Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Advanced) is a contemporary, practical course that has been developed by leading academics and experienced practitioners at the forefront of psychological science. This course is for career builders in psychology who seek powerful and positive change to serve the lives of communities, organisations, individuals, and themselves. Students prepare for a rich career in psychology by honing their skills as a scientist-practitioner and researcher in the framework of social responsibility and leadership. Following a modern curriculum guided by the latest American Psychological Association Guidelines and the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project, students of this course are part of an emerging mental health workforce that works effectively with, and for, Indigenous Australians.

Develop the skills you need to pivot in your career with UNE's Graduate Diploma in Psychology. Our course is ideal for people who have completed a degree in any discipline who are interested in a career in professional psychology, but who do not have an accredited undergraduate psychology major.

Students, at the end of the course, should be able to:

This degree can be the first stepping stone in the path to becoming a practising psychologist. Alternatively, students may use this degree to complement their current roles in a range of industries including Marketing, Human Resources, Education, Social Work and Counselling. The Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Bridging) provides the foundational knowledge of the history of psychology and develops your professional skills to apply contemporary psychology to solve community-based challenges. It has been designed to help graduates succeed in a complex world and to deliver better client services.

The Graduate Diploma of Psychological Science is designed to provide students with an integrated, comprehensive, and complete education in the discipline of Psychology.

If you’ve already passed an undergraduate degree, but have a driving passion to understand human behaviour at a deeper level, this is the course for you. Our Graduate Diploma of Psychological Science gives you deep insight into why we think and act the way we do.You will build a strong foundation in critical and analytical thinking and develop your skills to successfully design, construct and evaluate research, allowing you to uncover the nuances of human behaviour through the scientific discipline of psychology.

The current scenario of the contemporary world has been showing significant changes in economic, technological, demographic, cultural, and, above all, social aspects, demanding adequacy in People Management policies, regarding the application of new concepts, new competences, new strategies and tools more suitable.

This course presents a differentiated proposal, as it seeks to contribute with important reflections on the difficulties in the students' schooling process based on the recognition of the existence of multideterminant factors for the emergence of such difficulties. These reflections start from an analysis turned to the inside of the school and not only to the students, as the various subjective, relational, social, political and pedagogical aspects are considered.