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Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Bridging)
Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
About this program
An APAC-accredited conversion qualification that gives graduates the equivalent of the first three years of the psychology training sequence. It is for people whose bachelor's degree was in another field, or whose psychology degree is more than ten years old, or psychology graduates who need stronger grades to progress to the accredited fourth year. On Bond's three-semester calendar, students with a cognate background finish in about eight months and others in a year. Completion makes a student honours-equivalent and eligible to apply for the accredited fourth year, after which further postgraduate study and supervised practice lead toward registration as a psychologist. The diploma itself does not confer any registration. It suits career changers committed to the full psychology pathway.
Fees & duration
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Course structure
- Students must complete the following one hundred credit points (100CP) of subjects
- chosen from either structure below. Psychology Bridging Program (Cognate entry) Option Students in the Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Bridging) program choose either the cognate or non-cognate program structure depending on whether they have a cognate or non-cognate degree on entry. This structure is for students who enter the program with a cognate degree. Required Subjects Students must complete the following seventy credit points (70CP) of subjects. PSYC11-101: Foundations of Psychology: Development
- Learning and Social (10CP) . PSYC11-105: Statistics and Data Analysis 1 (10CP) . PSYC12-200: Statistics and Data Analysis 2 (10CP) . PSYC13-312: Psychopathology (10CP) . PSYC13-345: Statistics and Data Analysis 3 (10CP) . PSYC71-302: Personality
- Assessment and Individual Differences (10CP) . PSYC71-305: Research Methods in Psychology (10CP) . Psychology Electives Students must choose thirty credit points (30CP) of subjects from the following electives. PSYC12-214: Biological Psychology (10CP) . PSYC12-225: Cross-Cultural Psychology (10CP) . PSYC12-250: Learning and Behaviour (10CP) . PSYC12-315: Developmental Psychology (10CP) . PSYC12-325: Social Psychology (10CP) . PSYC13-301: Cognitive Psychology (10CP) . PSYC13-316: Motivation and Emotion (10CP) . <a aria-controls="11654968502" class="uk-accordion
Career & PR pathway
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Admissions
Admission to this program is based on either the successful completion of a recognised Bachelor degree (or equivalent qualification) in an unrelated discipline (non-cognate option), OR successful completion of a three-year APAC accredited undergraduate sequence (or equivalent), whereupon assessment for the fourth-year program, the GPA has not met the minimum entry requirements for entry (cognate option),
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