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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to a broad domain of healing resources that encompasses all health systems, modalities, and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs, other than those intrinsic to the politically dominant health system of a particular society of culture in a given historical period. This course has been developed to assist health professionals in developing the evidence-based knowledge and skills required to meet the consumer demand for CAM products as well as satisfying their professional and ethical responsibilities. It is a part time, postgraduate course and is offered online only. It consists of four core subjects taught by the Faculty of Health, School of Medicine. Candidates must complete the requirements of the Graduate Certificate in a minimum of 2 semesters and a maximum of three years, from the time of first enrolment.

This course equips students with fundamental knowledge and skills in counselling, together with an understanding of the ethical, legal and professional issues in relation to the practice of counselling required for employment in a range of counselling roles.Students will develop an understanding of the social, cultural and developmental context in which counselling occurs and of a range of therapeutic approaches and appropriate to a range of client ages, needs and circumstances.The course also aims to provide professional development opportunities for people working in counselling roles.

This course is not currently available for applications.A post-graduate educational offering for all healthcare professionals, this course is focussed on delivering high quality and safe patient-centred care. Equip yourself with the skills and confidence to coordinate improvement initiatives for better patient care in your own workplace through developing and delivering your own quality and safety improvement project, focussing on patient-centred care and utilising a variety of models and frameworks to achieve best practice.This course will provide you with the opportunity to gain the practical knowledge necessary to examine and integrate research principles and evidence-based practice in your workplace, while contributing to improved health care delivery.

Welcome to the Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments ProgramWe are a diverse group of health professionals with extensive experience in working in remote and extreme environments – from aeromedical retrieval and helicopter rescue to endurance race medical support and solo medical practice in Antarctica, and from running charitable clinics in the Himalayas and providing medical support at the Olympics to coaching extreme sport athletes and advising the Australian Space Agency. We come together to provide educational programs in this exciting and rapidly evolving area of healthcare and to share our passion and experiences with you.Below you will find information on our Graduate Certificate, Diploma and Masters program. These higher award programs are open only to doctors, nurse and paramedics. We do, however, offer an expanding range of educational options that are applicable to a much wider range of people. Visit our ever expanding offering of MOOCs and online courses, and browse the range of short courses .

This course, developed and delivered by the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, is available through the College of Health and Medicine. Visit the Wicking Dementia Centre for more course information.The Diploma of Dementia Care is a fully online, eight-unit program, specifically focused on dementia. It is available to carers, health professionals and anyone with an interest in learning more about dementia. Articulation into further study at Associate Degree and Bachelor are available on completion of your Diploma.With the rise in prevalence in dementia and the need to provide quality care in the community, health care centres and hospitals, and in residential care, it is becoming essential that health care workers in aged care develop specialised knowledge in this field so that you can make a difference to the lives of people living with dementia.This is a fully online course with no face to face or workplace assessment components.

The Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice is 26-week full-time professional and practical training course conducted by the Centre for Legal Studies in Hobart. The course runs from February to July each year. It prepares law graduates for the conduct of legal practice. It is an approved course of practical legal training in the duties of a legal practitioner, for the purposes of the Legal Profession (Board of Legal Education) Rules 2010."Through interacting with senior people in the legal community the course has given me a lot more confidence. To have that opportunity is something that shouldn’t be taken for granted."Monica OtlowskiTrainee, Tasmanian Legal Practice Course

Course is currently only offered to students nominated by ANZACATTThe purpose of the course is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the law, procedure and practice of parliaments and other related public law topics, such as the relationship of parliament to the executive and the courts. The course will examine common-law Westminster systems and their incorporation into the governments of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.The Graduate Certificate in Parliamentary Law and Practice is a professional training program specifically designed for parliamentary clerks. However, because the law and custom of parliament is of interest to persons other than clerks, such as members of parliament and students of the parliamentary process, it is proposed that it be open to any person with undergraduate or post graduate qualifications in law or politics.

This course, which is normally undertaken in part-time mode and articulates from the GradCertGIS, is designed for graduates wishing to obtain complementary skills and knowledge of spatial sciences, particularly in the fields of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing.

This 1-year (minimum) full-time or part-time course is offered by the College of Sciences and Engineering. The degree is available on the Hobart campus with entry in Semester 1. There may be limited occasions where entry into Semester 2 is acceptable. To discuss, please contact Dr Jon Osborn (03) 6226 2435, email Jon.Osborn@utas.edu.auThis course, together with the Bachelor of Surveying and Spatial Sciences or its equivalent, provides the necessary qualifications for registration with the Tasmanian Land Surveyors Accreditation Board for the purposes of the Surveyors Act; and for reciprocal registration in other States of Australia.

Throughout the world there are over 160,000 protected areas that are managed with the aim of ensuring the long term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values.Good planning is essential if protected areas are to achieve this aim.This course equips students with the knowledge and skills required by contemporary protected area planners. This course covers planning practice in government, private and community-based protected areas.The course has been developed as part of an initiative to establish a protected area learning and research centre. This initiative is being led by a Steering Committee comprising representatives from The University of Tasmania, Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service, Tasmanian Land Conservancy, Parks Victoria, Parks Australia, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, James Cook University, Murdoch University and Charles Darwin University.