Overview (2027)
Key Information
Duration
Minimum 0.5 years, up to a maximum of 2 years.
Location
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students
The Graduate Certificate in Education is based on principles of active learning and practice-oriented enquiry, informed by professional standards, contemporary theoretical perspectives, and research in teaching and learning. The course is founded on a key value of personal and collective professional responsibility for the improvement of educational outcomes and environments for learning across diverse settings.
The course aims to be relevant and responsive to the needs of people in a range of education-related roles. You will work in collegial ways and communicate effectively across professional settings to initiate and support change in and beyond your immediate spheres of influence.
By the end of the Graduate Certificate of Education, you will have new professional knowledge and an understanding of key research principles and methods. You will be able to critically reflect on and investigate practice and apply new ideas in diverse educational contexts. You will build the foundational knowledge and skills of rich reflective practice and models for enquiry that can be applied to your work context or specialised area of study to effect change.
We recognise that relationships are fundamental to effective teaching and that the past experiences of students contribute to their capacity for learning. The PG Coursework Program is therefore taught in flexible mode using adult education principles to enable learning in online and face-to-face environments.
- 1 Explain how the theoretical foundations and practice of education (including various specialisations) have informed and can facilitate developments in educational practice.
- 2 Synthesise and analyse scholarly literature to evaluate local and international developments in practice.
- 3 Integrate educational theory and professional knowledge to plan, implement and evaluate a professional enquiry initiative or conduct a theoretical investigation.
Career outcomes
Upon completion of this Graduate Certificate, you will be able to apply research learnings in education settings.
Course structure
The Graduate Certificate of Education requires the completion of 50 credit points. This can be completed with or without a specialisation.
Specialisation stream
In this stream you will complete one 50 credit point Specialisation from the schedule below. Your specialisation will be listed on your academic transcript and testamur. Please note that specialisations can only be completed part-time, so you'll complete this course over a minimum of one year.
Non -specialisation stream
In this stream you will complete:
- a 12.5 credit point Core and;
- 37.5 credit points of units from any specialisation or elective units.
With this stream you can build a course around your specific interests and career objectives selecting units from any specialisation or the elective list in the schedule below.
The Applied Learning specialisation requires the completion of 50 credit points comprising;
- a 12.5 credit point Core unit and
- 37.5 credit points from Elective units.
This unit explores a range of contemporary strategies of reflective practice with a particular focus on their use in professional learning. An emphasis is placed on considering the role of reflection to bridge the divide between theory and practice for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 |  |  |  | |
- Key:
On-campus- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP726 Reflective Strategies for Professional Learning
This unit considers the knowledge and skills required to facilitate engaging learning experiences within applied learning settings. In the unit, you will examine the theoretical underpinnings of learner and teacher engagement in a range of contexts, including face-to-face and online,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP502 Facilitating Engaging Learning Experiences
Applied learning is an approach that contextualizes learning in a way to empower and motivate students, whilst developing the key skills and knowledge required for employment, further education, and active learner participation in their communities. It involves students and teachers…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit introduces you to a range of theoretical approaches for facilitating learning, and relates these to contemporary educational practices. As a result of studying this unit, you will understand why contemporary education is focused on learning and understanding, rather…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP504 Contemporary Educational Perspectives
The unit focuses on three main areas: 1) the development of professional identity, 2) the practice of appreciative inquiry and collegial moderation, 3) evaluating the impact of independent professional learning on educational environments. It asks you to contextualise your professional…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EDP505 Improving Educational Practice through Professional Learning
The Inclusive Education specialisation requires the completion of 50 credit points comprising;
- a 12.5 credit point Core unit and
- 37.5 credit points from Elective units.
This specialisation is not currently available to new students.
This unit explores a range of contemporary strategies of reflective practice with a particular focus on their use in professional learning. An emphasis is placed on considering the role of reflection to bridge the divide between theory and practice for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP726 Reflective Strategies for Professional Learning
This unit is designed for educators with an interest in special and/or inclusive education. The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MYCEETYA, 2008) and the Disability Standards for Education (2005) make it clear that students with disability should…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EDP712 Educating Students with Multiple Disabilities
Student disengagement is a multifaceted and often complex problem facing both teachers and educational administrators. This unit focuses on the theories behind student disengagement and takes a solution focused approach towards re-engagement practices. By the end of this unit, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
The purpose of this unit is to develop an appreciation of the characteristic features and educational issues associated with dyslexia and other related learning difficulties. You will be introduced to a range of theoretical models to explain dyslexia, alongside contemporary…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EDP725 Educating Students with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties
The unit will explore the nature of inclusive education in the 21st century with an emphasis on diversity and exceptionality. Based on a philosophical foundation that values every student and acknowledges the right of every student to the most appropriate…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT603 Inclusive Practices in Education Settings
The Leadership specialisation requires the completion of 50 credit points comprising;
- a 12.5 credit point Core unit and
- 37.5 credit points from Elective units.
This unit explores a range of contemporary strategies of reflective practice with a particular focus on their use in professional learning. An emphasis is placed on considering the role of reflection to bridge the divide between theory and practice for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP726 Reflective Strategies for Professional Learning
Discourses of improvement often drive the practice of leadership. Rapid changes to technology, increasing globalisation, and issues of organisational structure, culture and power impact on improvement agendas, as well as the quality and effectiveness of such improvement in practice. In…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EDP714 Leading Organisational Improvement
Expectations of leaders in educational and other settings can change significantly over the course of a career. In addition to understanding individual issues of changing professional identity, self-preparation, and role transition, leaders are required to engage with heightened responsibilities when…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Organisations everywhere now operate in an environment of rapid, on-going and disruptive change. Leaders play a key role managing such change, which can include system-wide and local reforms, restructuring and innovations. Often, many planned changes are not implemented in practice…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Research suggests that leaders play a critical role in the ongoing development of their staff when it comes to improving complex organisations in times of rapid and disruptive change. Leaders in many organisations now hold identified and specific accountabilities for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
The TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) specialisation requires the completion of 50 credit points comprising of;
- a 12.5 credit point Core unit and
- 37.5 credit points from Elective units.
This unit explores a range of contemporary strategies of reflective practice with a particular focus on their use in professional learning. An emphasis is placed on considering the role of reflection to bridge the divide between theory and practice for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP726 Reflective Strategies for Professional Learning
This unit explores linguistics as an academic discipline, with a strong focus on its practical relevance to language learning and teaching. A central idea underpinning this unit is the vital role that language awareness plays in preparing teachers to teach…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP720 Linguistics and Language Analysis
In this unit, you are required to undertake a minimum of 60 hours of work-integrated learning (WIL) experience in a setting that is relevant to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Through mentoring provided by the course coordinator and…
Credit Points: 0
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP729 Work Integrated Learning in a TESOL Context
This unit will support you to gain the theoretical understandings, skills and methodologies to provide learning and teaching experiences within the Languages domain. You will be required to develop a comprehensive and coherent base of theoretical understandings upon which to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT517 Languages Teaching Methodologies
This unit explores the complex relationship between language and culture, and considers both in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity. The unit applies understandings of each to the teaching and learning of language. An emphasis is placed on understanding 'culture'…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit explores a range of contemporary strategies of reflective practice with a particular focus on their use in professional learning. An emphasis is placed on considering the role of reflection to bridge the divide between theory and practice for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP726 Reflective Strategies for Professional Learning
This unit considers the knowledge and skills required to facilitate engaging learning experiences within applied learning settings. In the unit, you will examine the theoretical underpinnings of learner and teacher engagement in a range of contexts, including face-to-face and online,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP502 Facilitating Engaging Learning Experiences
Applied learning is an approach that contextualizes learning in a way to empower and motivate students, whilst developing the key skills and knowledge required for employment, further education, and active learner participation in their communities. It involves students and teachers…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit introduces you to a range of theoretical approaches for facilitating learning, and relates these to contemporary educational practices. As a result of studying this unit, you will understand why contemporary education is focused on learning and understanding, rather…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP504 Contemporary Educational Perspectives
The unit focuses on three main areas: 1) the development of professional identity, 2) the practice of appreciative inquiry and collegial moderation, 3) evaluating the impact of independent professional learning on educational environments. It asks you to contextualise your professional…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EDP505 Improving Educational Practice through Professional Learning
This unit is an introduction to research as inquiry. In this unit, you will consider the importance of impetus in your proposed research and learn how to develop succinct and robust research questions. You will examine the similarities and differences…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP701 Understanding Educational Inquiry
This unit is aligned to the Building a Feedback Culture professional learning program from the Department of Education Tasmania, Professional Learning Institute (PLI) and successful completion of this program is a prerequisite for enrolment into this unit. The program is…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is aligned to the Principal Preparation Program (formerly titled Shadowing for Aspiring Principals) professional learning delivered by the Professional Learning Institute (PLI) - Department of Education, Children and Young People (DEYCP), Tasmania. The nationally recognised program takes account…
Credit Points: 12.5
Please note that the Summer school offering of this unit is restricted to students enrolled in the DECYP Leadership program. The aim of this unit is for leaders to examine the complexity of leadership in a period of rapid and…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is designed for educators with an interest in special and/or inclusive education. The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MYCEETYA, 2008) and the Disability Standards for Education (2005) make it clear that students with disability should…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EDP712 Educating Students with Multiple Disabilities
Student disengagement is a multifaceted and often complex problem facing both teachers and educational administrators. This unit focuses on the theories behind student disengagement and takes a solution focused approach towards re-engagement practices. By the end of this unit, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
Discourses of improvement often drive the practice of leadership. Rapid changes to technology, increasing globalisation, and issues of organisational structure, culture and power impact on improvement agendas, as well as the quality and effectiveness of such improvement in practice. In…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EDP714 Leading Organisational Improvement
Expectations of leaders in educational and other settings can change significantly over the course of a career. In addition to understanding individual issues of changing professional identity, self-preparation, and role transition, leaders are required to engage with heightened responsibilities when…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Organisations everywhere now operate in an environment of rapid, on-going and disruptive change. Leaders play a key role managing such change, which can include system-wide and local reforms, restructuring and innovations. Often, many planned changes are not implemented in practice…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Research suggests that leaders play a critical role in the ongoing development of their staff when it comes to improving complex organisations in times of rapid and disruptive change. Leaders in many organisations now hold identified and specific accountabilities for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit explores linguistics as an academic discipline, with a strong focus on its practical relevance to language learning and teaching. A central idea underpinning this unit is the vital role that language awareness plays in preparing teachers to teach…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP720 Linguistics and Language Analysis
This is an independent study project that requires the completion of an extended piece of writing such as a monograph, curriculum development document, professional development program, video, digital media output, or journal article for refereed publication. The design of the…
Credit Points: 25
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Semester 2 | | | | ||
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This is an independent study project that requires the completion of an extended piece of writing such as a monograph, curriculum development document, professional development program, video, digital media output, or journal article for refereed publication. The design of the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Semester 2 | | | | ||
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
The purpose of this unit is to develop an appreciation of the characteristic features and educational issues associated with dyslexia and other related learning difficulties. You will be introduced to a range of theoretical models to explain dyslexia, alongside contemporary…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EDP725 Educating Students with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties
This unit explores a range of contemporary strategies of reflective practice with a particular focus on their use in professional learning. An emphasis is placed on considering the role of reflection to bridge the divide between theory and practice for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP726 Reflective Strategies for Professional Learning
In this unit, you are required to undertake a minimum of 60 hours of work-integrated learning (WIL) experience in a setting that is relevant to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Through mentoring provided by the course coordinator and…
Credit Points: 0
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EDP729 Work Integrated Learning in a TESOL Context
The unit will explore the nature of inclusive education in the 21st century with an emphasis on diversity and exceptionality. Based on a philosophical foundation that values every student and acknowledges the right of every student to the most appropriate…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT603 Inclusive Practices in Education Settings
This unit explores the complex relationship between language and culture, and considers both in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity. The unit applies understandings of each to the teaching and learning of language. An emphasis is placed on understanding 'culture'…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit will introduce you to key theories and research praxis in arts education. Beginning with an exploration of the philosophical underpinnings of the role and value of arts, culture and education in society, you will examine research evidence of…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit focuses on multiple facets of the overall professional practice of secondary Arts teachers. It will explore and build on the knowledge and experience you gained in the successful completion of EMT552 and will enable you to critically examine…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit is designed to provide you with the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to be a proficient secondary English teacher. You will explore the ways in which adolescents learn to read, write, and communicate in English at…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT515 English Studies in Secondary School
This unit is designed to develop your knowledge and skills for the teaching of English. With a focus on the senior secondary English curriculum, it examines curriculum documents and program sequencing, with particular attention to evidence-based teaching, learning and assessment…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT610 Advanced English Studies in Secondary and Senior Secondary School
This unit is designed to provide students with an understanding of the key subject disciplines, History and Geography, in the secondary school. Students will learn about key aspects of historical and geographical knowledge and understanding and skills and begin to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT540 Introduction to Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences Education
This unit extends students' understanding of teaching and learning in Humanities and Social Sciences in the secondary school years, building on content from EMT540. The unit develops students’ pedagogical content knowledge for teaching the Civics and Citizenship and Business and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT640 Advanced Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences Education
This unit will support you to gain the theoretical understandings, skills and methodologies to provide learning and teaching experiences within the Languages domain. You will be required to develop a comprehensive and coherent base of theoretical understandings upon which to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT517 Languages Teaching Methodologies
This is the second of two sequential Languages curriculum units. In this unit, you will build upon knowledge gained in the previous unit, design teaching units for Languages learning and consider your role, as teacher, in this process. This will…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT617 Planning and Assessing Languages
This unit is the first of a pair of units that present the theory, methods and practice of teaching mathematics and numeracy in the secondary years. EMT525 addresses the Year 7-12 curriculum and its implementation, with a particular focus on…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT525 Teaching the 7-12 Mathematics Curriculum
Each of EMT625 and EMT627 is the second of a pair of units that present the theory, methods and practice of teaching high school mathematics and numeracy, with EMT625 focussing on the 7-12 curriculum and EMT627 focussing on Grades 7-9.…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT625 Grade 7 - 12 Students as Mathematics Learners
This unit serves as an introduction to the theory, methods and practice of teaching science in the first four years of secondary schools (years 7-10) and the senior secondary school/college (years 11-12). Particular emphasis is given to the consideration of…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT530 Introduction to Secondary Science Education
This unit builds on the knowledge and skills developed in the previous unit, EMT530, but focuses more deeply on science education in complex and authentic contexts, including the demands of the senior science syllabi (years 11 & 12). Further development…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT630 Senior Secondary Science Pedagogy
This unit is the second of a pair of units that present the theory, methods and practice of teaching mathematics and numeracy in the secondary years. EMT527 addresses the Year 7-9 curriculum and its implementation. (EMT525 addresses the Year 7-12…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT527 Teaching the Middle School Mathematics Curriculum
Each of EMT625 and EMT627 is the second of a pair of units that present the theory, methods and practice of teaching high school mathematics and numeracy, with EMT625 focussing on the 7-12 curriculum and EMT627 focussing on Grades 7-9.…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT627 Grade 7-9 Students as Mathematics Learners
As the introductory unit of the secondary Arts education specialisation, this unit focuses on exploring the role of the Arts educator, developing skills in reflective practice in Arts education, and creating an individualised pathway towards your professional practice. The unit…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT551 The Arts Educator: Pathways to Professional Practice
This unit will focus on partnerships as the driver for authentic and quality Arts education. This includes an exploration of partnerships with teachers of other Arts and non-Arts subjects, within school-based co-curricular activities, with respect to the Australian Curriculum cross…
Credit Points: 12.5
Entry requirements
Applicants with higher education study
To be eligible for an offer, you must have:
- An Initial Teacher’s Education (ITE) degree at Bachelor’s level or equivalent qualification such as a Master of Teaching.
Applicants without an Initial Teacher’s Education degree:
To be eligible for an offer, you must have:
- Completed a Certificate IV or equivalent qualification and 3 years industry or teaching experience.
Students intending to articulate to the Graduate Diploma or Master of Education with a specialisation in Applied Learning are strongly recommended to have completed a Cert IV and have 3 years industry or teaching experience.
Admission to most postgraduate coursework courses at the University of Tasmania require qualifications equivalent to an Australian bachelor degree. Applicants must achieve the required grade in their qualifying studies, meet any prerequisite subjects and the English language requirements to be eligible for an offer.
English Language Requirements
For students who do not meet the English Language Requirement through citizenship or prior studies in English in an approved country, evidence of an approved English language test completed within the last 2 years must be provided. See the English Language Requirements page for more information.
Applicants with higher education study
To be eligible for an offer, you must have:
- An Initial Teacher’s Education (ITE) degree at Bachelor’s level or equivalent qualification such as a Master of Teaching.
Applicants without an Initial Teacher’s Education degree:
To be eligible for an offer, you must have:
- Completed a Certificate IV or equivalent qualification and 3 years industry or teaching experience.
This course articulates to the Graduate Diploma of Education (E6J) and the Master of Education (E7H).
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Commonwealth supported places (CSP) are available for this course. For eligible domestic students, this means your fees will be subsidised by the Australian Government. You’ll only need to pay the student contribution amount for each unit you study within the course.
Commonwealth Supported Place indicative annual fee: $2,368
How is this calculated?
This is an estimate. The calculation is based on the average full-time enrolment for this course in 2026. All figures are indicative only for 2027. Actual tuition fees will depend on specific unit enrolment, and are subject to annual increases each year. You can find the complete fee details for each unit of study on the individual unit pages. The units for this course are found in the course structure section of this page.
These figures do not include other costs such as the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). For further information, please visit Scholarships, fees and costs.
HECS-HELP loans
You may be able to defer payment of the student contribution amount by accessing a HECS-HELP loan from the Government. If eligible, you’ll only have to pay your tuition fees once you start earning above a specific amount.
Further information on student loans and a CSP eligibility checker can be found at Australian Government Study Assist.
Domestic scholarships
Tasmanian Education Sector HECS Scholarship
The Graduate Certificate in Education is available with a 100% HECS tuition fee scholarship for eligible domestic students working in the Tasmanian education sector.
You may be able to study with no tuition fees, full-time or part-time. Scholarships are currently available for eligible students studying in 2026.
If you are employed by the Department for Education, Children and Young People (DECYP), TasTAFE, Catholic Education or an Independent School, you may be eligible.
Find out more about eligibility and how to apply.
TAFE Queensland Educator Program
The Graduate Certificate in Education is available through the TAFE Queensland Educator Program, offering a 20% HECS tuition fee scholarship for eligible domestic students.
You can study full-time or part-time, with scholarships currently available for units studied in 2026.
If you are employed by TAFE Queensland, you may be eligible.
Find out more about eligibility and how to apply.
General scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
Course year 2027
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