Graduate Certificate of Cemetery Practice
Deakin University
About
This course has been co-designed with the cemetery and crematoria industry to fill a gap in knowledge and professional skills of current management staff.
Unique in Australia and worldwide, this course offers business management professionals the opportunity to enhance their critical awareness and ability to deal sensitively with a range of issues around interment and grief in a multi-faith/multi-cultural context, while balancing a wide array of competing demands around management of physical environment, regulations, and heritage/historical value of cemeteries and crematoria.
Structure
To qualify for the Graduate Certificate of Cemetery Practice, a student must successfully complete 4 credit points of study comprising:
- 3 credit points of core units
- 1 credit point elective unit
- Academic Integrity AAI018
- Academic Integrity (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
Entry requirements
Entry requirements
Entry information
Deakin University offers admission to postgraduate courses through a number of Admission categories.
All applicants must meet the minimum English language requirements.
Please note that meeting the minimum admission requirements does not guarantee selection, which is based on merit, likelihood of success and availability of places in the course.
For more information on the Admission Criteria and Selection (Higher Education Courses) Policy visit the Deakin Policy Library
Entry will be based on performance in:
- Bachelor Degree or higher; OR
- two years relevant work experience; OR
- evidence of academic capability judged to be equivalent
Learning outcomes
Deakin's graduate learning outcomes describe the knowledge and capabilities graduates can demonstrate at the completion of their course. These outcomes mean that regardless of the Deakin course you undertake, you can rest assured your degree will teach you the skills and professional attributes that employers value. They'll set you up to learn and work effectively in the future.
| outcome type | outcome description |
|---|---|
| Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities | Apply complex knowledge of socio-cultural practices, bereavement and burial processes to sensitively provide appropriate cemetery services in a complex, multi-cultural, multi-faith contexts |
| Communication | Apply advanced communication skills to analyse, plan and implement appropriate cemetery services in complex, multi-cultural, multi-faith contexts |
| Digital literacy | Source relevant digital technologies to research, critically analyse, evaluate and communicate relevant information to diverse client groups |
| Critical thinking | Critically analyse contextual beliefs and information relating to interment, bereavement, heritage and physical environmental needs to plan, prioritise and evaluate the effective and sensitive operation of cemeteries and crematoria |
| Problem solving | Critically analyse available information on a range of complex beliefs and practices around interment and bereavement to generate realistic, sensitive and culturally acceptable solutions |
| Self-management | Act autonomously and exercise responsibility and accountability through continued commitment to learning, reflective practice and professional development in diverse cemetery contexts |
| Teamwork | Collaborate with diverse team members to effectively plan, implement and manage cemetery operations that recognise and support cultural and religious sensitivities around death and grieving |
| Global citizenship | Implement cultural and religious competence in planning and developing equitable access to appropriate cemetery and crematorium services for a range of diverse client groups from different cultures |
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