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The social care and community sector is a rapidly growing field offering a wide variety of employment options. Whether you are seeking a new career, or looking to build on your existing experience, this one-year course provides you with knowledge and skills for a range of community and human service roles. You will learn about working with individuals, groups and communities to help people access the care, support and services they need. You will also learn to locate and analyse key information to help you make practice decisions. As a graduate you will have the skills for employment in community work, residential care, support services, youth work and aged care. This course provides a direct pathway into the Bachelor of Social Work degree at Charles Darwin University, with full credit for the first year of study.

Want to study psychology without committing a full undergraduate degree? The Diploma of Psychology is what you are looking for. Psychology explores human behaviour and how humans make sense of the world, process, organise and store information. It looks at multiple factors that influence human development, human motivation and emotion such as: how biology influences things like learning, memory and behaviour, and vice versa, common and unique aspects of personality, behavioural dysfunctions, social and cultural diversity. This course introduces you to the foundations of psychology, explores mental health, and builds essential counselling and behaviour modification skills. You can choose to study this diploma either on campus at Casuarina (internally) or online (externally).

The Diploma of Network Engineering will prepare you for entry-level network engineering roles by providing the skills and knowledge required to design, operate and maintain networks that play a crucial role in the infrastructure of industry and government organisations. Your coursework will cover key areas of network engineering, including data networks and their implementation. You will combine academic studies with practical experience allowing you to further develop your skill set and provide you with the opportunity to stand out from the crowd in a competitive industry. You can also use this qualification to move into our other degree programs such as the Bachelor of Information Technology or Bachelor of Software Engineering Honours. Study opportunities are also provided to assist students to undertake sought-after industry modules, including Microsoft certification.

The Diploma of Laws offers you a general understanding of the law, legal processes and legal principles, as well as an opportunity to gain the specialist knowledge you may need for work or other reasons. This program is also suitable for internationally qualified lawyers who need to complete some Australian subjects to qualify for admission to legal practice in Australia and is a recognised pathway to the Bachelor of Laws at Charles Darwin University.

The Diploma of Information Technology is designed to reflect general degree course objectives and build towards the graduate attributes of Charles Darwin University. These attributes describe creative, flexible and socially responsible graduates who are able to the acquire, understand and apply concepts and knowledge with a high level of skills in communication, leadership and team work. The Up Education approach meets this commitment to learning through a focus on students, high quality teaching, strict academic standards and helping students to be well-rounded. The Diploma Information Technology has been developed to parallel the existing first year course with the added dimensions of Academic English development, increased contact time with staff and focus on linguistic and cultural gaps that will exist for many students in first year units. Successful completion of this course allows you to enter the second year of the following courses at CDU: Bachelor of Information Technology or Bachelor of Computer Science.

Want to base your research on Australian Indigenous knowledge? Ready to make a positive change for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians through collaborative research? The Diploma of Indigenous Research is an opportunity for you to build on the profound depth of research knowledge that already exists with the traditions of Indigenous people within Australia. Indigenous people have extensive experience in research, both as participants and leaders of research initiated within and by universities and other agencies, but also as leaders of research work based within the knowledge foundations of their own cultural and philosophical traditions. This course focuses on promoting knowledge and cultural tradition research in Indigenous groups and its positive contributions to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous society. It also aims to open up the knowledge-making spaces between the western academy and Indigenous knowledge academies to explore new and generative research methodologies that can emerge from genuine and equal collaboration. This course targets Indigenous students, however, non-Indigenous students with suitable experience may apply.

The Diploma of Indigenous Language Work will develop the necessary basic linguistics skills and knowledge for you to take part in appropriate and culturally sensitive documentation, analysis, maintenance and revival of Indigenous languages. People who have previously worked on languages in their community will benefit from engaging in the various topics included in this degree and further their linguistic competence to work confidently on their individual language projects. This course may constitute the first level and a possible pathway into more linguistically comprehensive degrees, that is, the Associate Degree of Indigenous Languages and Linguistics (XINLL1) or the Bachelor of Indigenous Languages and Linguistics (WINLL1).

This course explores the concepts and professional practices that support developing a better understanding of the factors surrounding Indigenous people's engagement in employment (particularly in the public sector workforce). You will develop specific skills relevant to Indigenous people's engagement in public sector work environment, retention, workplace support and development. Issues that surround the contexts of Indigenous people's participation in employment are addressed in ways that respect people's cultures, worldviews and socioeconomic status. Your studies focus on ensuring you can demonstrate what you learn in a culturally informed and respectful manner.

The Diploma of Business Studies is designed to reflect general business degree course objectives and build towards the graduate attributes of Charles Darwin University. These attributes describe creative, flexible and socially responsible graduates who are able to acquire, understand and apply concepts and knowledge with a high level of skills in communication, leadership and team work. The Up Education approach meets this commitment to learning through a focus on students, high quality teaching, strict academic standards and helping students to be well-rounded. The Diploma of Business Studies has been developed to parallel the existing first year course in business with the added dimensions of Academic English development, increased contact time with staff and focus on linguistic and cultural gaps that will exist for many students in first year units. Successful completion of this course allows you to enter the second year of the following courses at CDU: Bachelor of Business, Bachelor of Accounting or the Bachelor of Digital Enterprise.

The Diploma of Health Science will provide you with a range of skills and knowledge applicable to the Australian health care system, including health promotion, communication skills and cultural safety in healthcare. Graduates have the opportunity to access entry level health related roles across health services and organisations. Employment options include roles as health administrators, health promotion or public health workers.