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If you have always wanted to learn the skills to be able to make your own customised precision metal parts using equipment such as lathes and milling machines for work or play, after hours course will hit the mark! This course will provide participants with practical skills in basic machining on lathes, milling machines and ancillary machines such as pedestal drills and grinders. Participants are welcome to bring in a proposal for their own projects and discuss their suitability with the lecturer. Examples of suitable projects might include metal craft work, hobby train or aeroplane projects. Project exceptions will include vehicle components and weapons. You will be required to wear personal protective clothing at all times in the pratical workshop which include steel capped safety boots, clear safety glasses, coverall style overalls.

This course prepares university graduates for a career in radio broadcasting, and online. This practical course is taught by professional journalists and broadcasters, and has the backing of the media industry around Australia. Course content includes the journalistic, presentation, technical and people skills required by today's electronic media professionals.

Public health is a broad area which can be generally characterised as being concerned with improving health and well-being by carrying out actions that will have an impact at a population or 'whole of community' level. Current Australian priorities for public health are to reduce health disparities between different population groups and to positively influence social, economic, physical and biological factors that play a role in determining overall health outcomes. Public health practitioners are health professionals who have the skills required to help individuals and communities to have greater control over their health and wellbeing and to influence organisational and political environments in ways that lead to better health for all.

Public health is a broad area which strives to improve health and well-being at a population or 'whole of community' level. Public health professionals seek to influence social, economic, physical and biological factors that affect health outcomes. They have skills in health surveillance and their work often involves planning, implementing and evaluating actions and programs, which help to reduce health inequities in ways that lead to better health for all.

This course prepares university graduates for a career in broadcasting particularly radio, television and online. This practical course is taught by professional journalists and broadcasters, and has the backing of the media industry around Australia. Course content includes the journalistic, presentation, technical and people skills required by today's electronic media professionals.

This course prepares students for research in higher degrees, and enables them to enter the Masters awards well-prepared. Candidates are accepted in the fields of Children and Family Studies, Community Studies, Counselling, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Disability Studies, Gerontology, Human Services, Social Work, Women's Studies, and Youth Work.

This non-award, non-AQF qualification course offers an introduction to counselling skills for those with some practical experience (either paid or voluntary). The focus is on providing the conceptual underpinnings of counselling practice and developing a self awareness - two practitioner capacities essential to effective counselling in a community work context.

This course is designed to provide qualified primary school teachers a recognised qualification in Early Childhood Education (Birth - 8 year olds). The course is ACECQA registered and provides the content and pedagogical knowledge of the requirements to teach in the early years. The course is also open to Early Childhood Teachers who would like to retrain for the ACECQA qualification for children from Birth - Pre-Primary age.

This course aims to develop professionals in the field of occupational and health and safety (OHS), in particular, to develop the skills of identification and management of workplace hazards that may adversely impact on the health and safety of workers. On completion of the program it is expected that students should be able to: implement and assess an occupational health and safety management system that reflects the OHS needs and issues of an organisation, taking into account the size and complexity of the organisation; critically review the risk management processes that have been developed for a workplace and/or industry, including the characterisation of incident-investigation processes identifying issues in specific industries/workplaces; critically review the legal framework for occupational safety and health in Australia; synthesise the factors that have influenced the development of occupational safety and health law in Australia; synthesise the factors that influence the application of occupational safety and health legislation in the workplace; categorise hazards according to type, assess when a hazard becomes a risk and characterise the principles of safe design in relation to potential impacts on people, plant and/or the environment; demonstrate academic skills which include writing, referencing and researching at a postgraduate level including professional competencies in the use of commonly used business software packages used in occupational health and safety.

This course provides an introduction to the field of occupational health and health (OHS)/ workplace health and health (WHS) management and has been developed to equip students with the basic skills necessary to function effectively in occupational health and safety roles.