If you want an exciting career that stimulates you, challenges you, and rewards you, then a postgraduate degree in science sets you on the right path.

This Graduate Diploma provides an avenue for further study under certain circumstances, if:

• You are ineligible for entry to Honours at UWA
• You want proceed to master's candidature
• You want an advanced qualification in a specific area of expertise

Course outline

This course allows students to appreciate the complexity of the human condition, gain a holistic understanding of human origins, history, culture, biology and behaviour, economics, governance, and the impact of humans on the environment. Students will recognise the importance of the various disciplines that contribute to an understanding of the human condition and how they can be used to promote human well-being within a sustainable environment.

Students undertake core units and may choose electives as coursework or 24 project in consultation with Program Co-ordinator.

Core units:

• IHST8801 Orientation to Integrated Human Studies
• IHST8802 Emergence of Twenty-first century Humanity
• IHST8811 Global Values and Lifestyles in the Twenty-first Century
• IHST8812 Action, Innovation and Leadership for the Twenty-first Century

Students choose 24 points Elective Units from Group A or Group B:

Group A

• S1, S2 IHST8809 Dimensions of the Human Experience
• S1, S2 IHST8810 Technologies, Economies and Ecologies of the Twenty-first Century
• S1, S2 IHST8813 Collaborative Online Inquiry into Twenty-first-century Challenges (12 points)

Group B

• S1, S2 IHST8814 Integrated Human Studies Project Part 1
• S1, S2 IHST8815  Integrated Human Studies Project Part 2
• S1, S2 IHST8816Integrated Human Studies Project Part 3
• S1, S2  IHST8817 Integrated Human Studies Project Part 4

Admission requirements

A Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline from this University or equivalent, as recognised by the Faculty.

English Language Competence

All applicants for UWA coursework programs must demonstrate a minimum level of English Language Competence.