Diploma of Psychology

Want to study psychology without committing a full undergraduate degree?

The Diploma of Psychology is what you are looking for.

Psychology explores human behaviour and how humans make sense of the world, process, organise and store information.

It looks at multiple factors that influence human development, human motivation and emotion such as:

how biology influences things like learning, memory and behaviour, and vice versa, common and unique aspects of personality, behavioural dysfunctions, social and cultural diversity.

This course introduces you to the foundations of psychology, explores mental health, and builds essential counselling and behaviour modification skills.

You can choose to study this diploma either on campus at Casuarina (internally) or online (externally).

Common Units(2 units) - 20cp

Common units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.

CUC107 Cultural Intelligence and Capability (compulsory) Plus either CUC106 Design and Innovation: Communicating Technology OR CUC100 Academic Literacies Through Exploring Sustainability (new title 2016)

Select Common Units to find out more about individual units and advanced standing options.

Core Units(2 units) - 20cp

Compulsory Core units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.

PSY140

PSY141

Specialist Elective(4 units) - 40cp

Units totalling 40 credit points selected from the list of available units detailed below.

PSY115 Psychological Skills PSY143 Traumatology - Assessment and Intervention PSY202 Developmental Psychology PSY208 Biological Bases of Behaviour PSY209 Social-Cultural Psychology PSY245 Cognition and Language PSY305 Theories of Personality PSY353 Abnormal Psychology PSY355 Applied Psychology

- 80cp

Total Credit Points

Admission requirements are met by one of the following: Successful completion of the Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training (or equivalent) and the awarding of an Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR) of at least 60*. Successful completion of a national qualification at Certificate IV level or higher. Successful completion of at least 0.5 year of full-time study (or equivalent) of a higher education degree/diploma. Overseas secondary or tertiary qualifications considered equivalent to the above Australian qualifications. Attainment of a STAT Multiple Choice score of 135 (or a score of 145 if prior to May 2010). Successful completion of the Tertiary Enabling Program, the Preparation for Tertiary Success courses, or other recognised tertiary preparation course. Submission of an acceptable personal competencies statement and/or employment experience. * After any applicable adjustment factors have been applied.