Graduate Diploma in Psychology - Advanced Murdoch University

Overview

If you’re working towards becoming a registered psychologist and have already completed an accredited three-year undergraduate psychology degree or equivalent, this course provides you with an alternative option to an honours year to satisfy the educational requirements needed to register and work as a provisional psychologist or further your studies with an application into a relevant master’s course upon completion of the course. 

Students in the Graduate Diploma in Psychology - Advanced from Murdoch University must complete coursework at an advanced level as well as a group-based research project written up as an individual thesis. 

What you'll learn 

• Analytics and problem-solving 

• Research and information sourcing 

• Critical thinking, judgment, and decision making 

• The appreciation of mental health issues and how this impacts at an individual, family, and community level 

• Interpersonal, oral, and written communication 

• Foundations of psychological assessment and intervention

Your future career 

After obtaining the Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Advanced) degree, you can explore working in diverse areas both in the public and private sectors, because the skills and knowledge acquired throughout this course are highly versatile and applicable to many fields. 

You can be involved in policy making, police and correction services, counselling services, market and consumer research, career guidance, and more. 

Graduate Careers Australia outlines some areas you might work in after graduating with a Psychology degree.