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Study graduate diploma online through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

After studying how people behave and think, you’ll be able to pursue employment pathways including communications, marketing, HR, and mental health. Explore psychological perspectives with practicing industry professionals and RMIT’s expert academics.

Graduate Diploma in Psychology

Work towards registration as a practising psychologist. You’ll hone your research skills, including data analysis and literature reviews. Study counselling theory and therapeutic approaches. Explore ethics and professional issues.

Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Advanced)

Change the course of your career with this postgraduate psychology qualification. You’ll study the fundamentals of psychology and statistics. Explore how people think and investigate abnormal behaviour. Work in mental health, counselling, and more.

Graduate Diploma of Psychology

Introduction to Psychology I

Foundations of Psychology

Introduction to Health Psychology

Introduction to Psychology

Crime and Mental Health

Music, Mind and Body

Psychology of Leadership

Cognitive Psychology

Understanding Victims and Offenders

Brain and Behaviour

Understand why some people are more likely to commit particular crimes than others, and why certain citizens are more likely to be victims of these crimes. Cover sexual crimes, violent crimes and family violence in particular. 

Untangle the ‘why’ behind crime by better understanding the perpetrators psyche. You’ll consider how elements such as biology, personality and mental health impact are at play. Get an introduction to forensic psychology and major theories of crime. 

Psychological Contributions to Understanding Crime

Delve into the complex relationship between crime and mental illness. Examine links between offending, violence, mental disorder, and substance abuse. Get critical with an evidence-based approach that separates media representations from actual research.

Explore effective and adaptive leadership. Learn to apply psychological principles to solve business problems. Through various psychological processes, unpack management and leadership topics including power, diversity, and resilience.

Calling on psychology theory and practice, explore culture’s influence on business and management. From the way businesses are structured, through to what motivates people to work, deep dive into the relationship between leadership and culture.

Organisational Culture

Investigate the legal constructs of insanity and the psychiatric constructs of intellectual disability and mental disorders. Evaluate the relationship between crime, dangerousness and mental disorders in the context of forensic mental health.

Mental Disorder and Crime

Learn how psychology can help police. You’ll dive head-first into false confessions and testimony, interviewing, facial recognition, eyewitnesses and human error. Beyond prosecution, learn how psychologists can assist police in times of stress.  

Psychology and Policing

Dive into consumers’ minds as you learn what drives consumption. Study human perception, memory, cues that subconsciously move us to make decisions, and what leads to attitude change. Find out what it takes to influence behaviour.

Consumer Psychology

Scrutinise the areas in which the criminal justice system and psychological theories of behaviour intersect. Study the roles of various actors in courts, such as judges, juries, expert witnesses, eyewitnesses, victims and defendants.

Law and Behaviour

Systematic Review in Business Psychology

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