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Graduate Diploma in Geoscience
Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
About this program
The Graduate Diploma in Geoscience at Curtin University is an intermediate exit-only award of the two-year Master of Geoscience, for students who have completed the first year of that degree but choose not to continue to the full Master's. The Master of Geoscience itself provides advanced technical and professional training for graduates upgrading their geology or geophysics qualifications, or moving into a new branch of geoscience, with a choice of major in Exploration and Mining Geology or Geophysics. Graduates work as exploration geologists and geoscientists across the resources sector. Indicative international tuition is around 50,100 Australian dollars per year. Courses at Curtin are primarily taught on campus at the Bentley Perth campus.
Cost & duration
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Course structure
1 term of coursework
- A one-year
- first-year-of-Master's curriculum. Semester 1 core units include STEM Research Methodologies and Applied Remote Sensing
- plus a 50-credit elective choice from units including Mining Geology and Resource Estimation
- Applied Geochemistry
- Mineral Deposits
- Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology
- and Environmental Geoscience (the actual unit choices vary by the student's chosen Master of Geoscience major, Exploration and Mining Geology or Geophysics)
Admissions
This is an intermediate exit-only award and is not open for direct entry; it is earned by completing the first year of the Master of Geoscience. Entry to the Master of Geoscience itself generally requires a Bachelor's degree in geology, geophysics or a related science.
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