Participants are encouraged to share their work experience with the group. Learning contracts and projects based on participants' work experience are used in some units to develop skills and knowledge needed by practitioners in the field. Additionally, the course is designed to provide learning experiences that should enhance personal development, particularly in analytical, problem-solving and communication skills. The course is offered over a two year period on a part-time basis only. Participants are required to complete two subjects per semester.
Some subjects combine classes with workshop modes of delivery.
The Graduate Diploma course is organised in two sequences of study. An indication of preference for either the industrial relations or the human resource management sequence is mandatory at the time of making an application. You will be offered a place in a particular sequence. There is no transfer between sequences. The course consists of eight semester length subjects, five of which are included in both sequences.