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This is an intermediate-level course in health services management and aims to expand students' knowledge and future career opportunities. The course develops students' knowledge and skills, which leads to an enhanced capacity to plan and manage health services.Graduates of this course are exposed to academic and industry leaders who share their experience and knowledge to facilitate insight into the contemporary health service management environment.

This course provides registered nurses with the knowledge and skills for a specialist role as an advanced nurse at a graduate diploma level. Students can tailor the diploma to their area of specialty or role. There is a large selection of elective subjects that encompass the areas of clinical, chronic and complex care (ageing and palliation); primary health care; education; management; and research.This course is designed so that students can tailor their subject choices to meet their individual needs. The knowledge, skills and expertise gained enable students to enhance the quality of care for patients and their families. Students develop skills to actively contribute to the professional development of others and use evidence to make informed decisions about nursing practice. Highly respected by employers and clinicians alike, this course develops a variety of career options.

The Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning is a unique modular experience designed for financial planners with a degree in unrelated fields who want to improve their professional skills and satisfy the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) qualification requirements. The course covers the core curriculum required for the professional accreditation but, at the same time, addresses all the dimensions of the professional profile of modern financial planners.The course has been designed to suit the needs of people who currently work full time: each subject is delivered in a mix of online learning and face-to-face interaction over two weekends. This combines the convenience of online learning with the rich experience of class interaction with a group of highly motivated and engaged peers.This course provides a unique opportunity to acquire the skills and the academic qualification necessary to succeed as a financial planner. It has a flexible and modular approach specifically designed to suit the needs of financial planners interested in acquiring new skills while working full time.

Students enrolled in the Master of Orthoptics (C04299) can apply to transfer into this exit-only course after completing 48 credit points of specified study and gain a graduate diploma qualification.

The Graduate Diploma in Media Practice and Industry is for creative media graduates or experienced industry practitioners seeking to advance their skills and employability in a hybrid and dynamic media environment. The course is focused towards media industry transformations with respect to ethics, social justice, technology and sustainability. Students select subject choices which share entrepreneurial, collaborative and iterative approaches to the ideas, practices and audiences for screen, digital media and emerging platforms. Curation, design thinking and project-based work are key aspects of the course, which aims to produce graduates who can provide leadership to harness and shape opportunities in the field.

The Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics is an exit-only qualification for the Master of Business Analytics (C04380) or the Master of Business Analytics (Extension) (C04379), a unique transdisciplinary program of study in business analytics. With subjects drawn from the UTS Business School and the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, students are provided a course structure which fits their background and experience. The course is delivered in blended mode, combining contemporary online and face-to-face learning experiences in UTS’s leading-edge facilities.

The Graduate Diploma in Forensic Science prepares students for professional and specialist work in the discipline of forensic science and is designed for professional scientists wishing to update their industry-related skills for career advancement.This course is designed to build students' knowledge and practice of forensic science alongside developing science management and leadership skills. The course contains compulsory core and elective practice-focused forensic science subjects across a range of disciplines from the crime scene to the laboratory. Professional subjects covering a range of skills crucial to all professional scientists – such as project and laboratory management, advanced scientific communication, ethics, innovation and science business models – complete the course. Students also have the option of undertaking a short research internship, subject to approval by the faculty.

The Graduate Diploma in Medical Biotechnology is designed for two distinct groups of students, namely the professional scientists wishing to update their industry-related skills for career advancement and students considering a research degree.The course contains a compulsory core of professional subjects relevant to all science disciplines, such as project management, innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialisation. These core subjects provide a solid foundation to skills required and are important to a professional scientist; be they engaged in research, science businesses, industries or government organisations.

The Graduate Diploma in Marketing provides a thorough understanding of the basic principles of marketing, the motivations of customers and marketing management. Students are also given opportunity to consider various topics of their own choosing, including marketing communications, digital marketing, international marketing, new products and innovations, and marketing research, as well as entrepreneurial marketing and branding.The course assists students in developing the ability to identify and analyse marketing management problems and fosters skills in generating marketing strategies to solve problems in the marketing domain, both in Australia and overseas.Students have flexible program options including subject choices, full-time or part-time study options and studying over Autumn, Spring or Summer sessions.

The Quantitative Finance program provides the opportunity to acquire the detailed specialised knowledge and the professional competency required to work as a quantitative finance analyst in the modern finance industry.This course provides the core knowledge of the modern financial instruments and the fundamentals of the specialised quantitative finance skills required for a basic professional competency in quantitative finance.