This program is not accepting new enrolments.

This program aims to offer postgraduates the opportunity to complete a Graduate Diploma of Indigenous Studies where the focus is on Indigenous peoples and cultures of Australia and internationally. It also aims to promote intercultural understanding and the development and deepening of students’ understanding of Australian and international Indigenous societies, cultures, histories and contemporary experience.

There are four broad outcomes for the program:

The program is divided into two components. These are:

Core Courses: 18UOC
Elective Courses: 18UOC

Alternatively you may choose any 1 elective from
Master of Social Development
Master of Policy Studies

The Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Studies is offered full-time or part-time with a minimum length of one session fulltime.

For the Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Studies, students are required to complete the Core Courses listed above plus three of the above listed electives to make up 36 Units of Credit.

Each course is worth 6 units of credit and is one session in duration. Class contact hours are normally 2 hours per week per course.

1. (1) The Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Study may be awarded by the Council to a candidate who has satisfactorily completed a program of advanced study.

(2) Candidates may proceed to the Graduate Diploma through part-time or full-time study.

2. (1) A candidate for the Graduate Diploma shall have been awarded an appropriate degree of Bachelor from the University of New South Wales or a qualification considered equivalent from another university or tertiary institution at a level acceptable to the Standing Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the Committee).

(2) In exceptional cases, an applicant who submits evidence of such other academic or professional qualifications as may be approved by the Committee may be permitted to enrol for the Graduate Diploma.

(3) If the Committee is not satisfied with the qualifications submitted by an applicant the Committee may require the applicant to undergo such assessment or carry out such work as the Committee may prescribe, before permitting enrolment.

3. (1) An application to enrol as a candidate for the Graduate Diploma shall be lodged with the Registrar at least two calendar months before the commencement of the semester in which enrolment is to begin.

(2) To qualify for the award of the Graduate Diploma, candidates must obtain over a period of study of not less than two semesters, six courses within the Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Study. The maximum period of candidature shall be four academic semesters from the date of enrolment. In special cases an extension of these times may be granted by the Committee.

(3) A student enrolling in a course must satisfy the prerequisite requirements in that course, which may include undergraduate study. These requirements may be waived at the discretion of the Head of the School/Department/Unit concerned.

(4) The progress of a candidate shall be reviewed annually by the Committee and as a result of the review the Committee may cancel enrolment or take such other action as it considers appropriate.

4.The Grad Dip forms part of an approved sequence of articulated programs comprising the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters degree in the same area of specialisation. A postgraduate student enrolled in an articulated program may progress from Graduate Certificate to Graduate Diploma to Masters level with full credit for courses completed in earlier programs in the sequence.

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