Graduate Diploma in Social Work

The Graduate Diploma in Social Work will enable you to reflect on and formulate your practice, read about and appraise alternative practices and theories, and assess their work problems and clients' needs in new ways.You will learn how to evaluate existing practice and provision critically, with a view to promoting change and improvement in services offered and outcomes affected in the lives and situations of clients.

It offers opportunities for the analysis and investigation of theories and initiatives in social policy and their impacts.Subject to meeting progression requirements in the graduate diploma, you may apply to transfer to the Master of Social Work.

Admission requirement

Admission to candidature for the Graduate Diploma in Social Work requires:

• the Bachelor of Social Work degree from the University of Sydney, or equivalent qualification recognised by the Australian Association of Social Workers; and
• evidence of at least one year's full-time employment in Social Work.

You can progress from the Graduate Diploma to Masters in the same subject area, after successful completion of the shorter course.

What you'll study