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CV79 - Graduate Diploma of Domestic and Family Violence Practice

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Overview

Course Overview

The Graduate Diploma in Domestic and Family Violence Practice will provide the opportunity for you to develop advanced industry-related knowledge, skills and competencies to respond to domestic and family violence. You will have the opportunity to enhance your learning in key specialist practice areas in relation to domestic and family violence. Units related to responding to victims and perpetrators, and leadership and management are available to you in this course. The knowledge and skills you will gain through completing this course are transferable across a wide range of professions and occupations where workers respond to domestic and family violence.

This course will meet the gap in post-professional education for the domestic and family violence sector as noted in the ‘Not Now Not Ever’ report of the 2015 Queensland Domestic Violence Taskforce and in Australia’s National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children (2010).

Career Information

Graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Domestic and Family Violence Practice would typically be employed, or seeking employment in:

  • Criminal Justice
  • Child Safety organisations
  • Health Services

Course Details
Duration 1 years full-time or 2 years part-time
Credit Points that Must be Earned 48
Number of Units Required CQUniversity uses the concept of credits to express the amount of study required for a particular course and individual units. The number of units varies between courses. Units in postgraduate courses normally consist of 6 points of credit or multiples thereof (e.g. 12, 18, 24).
Expected Hours of Study One point of credit is equivalent to an expectation of approximately two hours of student work per week in a term.
Course Type Postgraduate Award
Qualification (post nominal) GradDipDomFamViolPrac
AQF Level Level 8: Graduate Diploma
Course Fees
Indicative Year - 2025
  • Commonwealth Supported Place – Indicative First Year Fee - $17,148
  • Domestic Full Fee Paying – Indicative First Year Fee - $17,616
Indicative Year - 2024
  • Domestic Full Fee Paying – Indicative First Year Fee - $16,836
  • International Indicative First Year Fee - $16,836
Indicative Year - 2023
  • Domestic Full Fee Paying – Indicative First Year Fee - $15,588
Indicative Year - 2022
  • Domestic Full Fee Paying – Indicative First Year Fee - $25,416

Admission Codes

Domestic Students
Tertiary Admission Centre Codes (TAC) Codes 		Not Applicable
International Students
CRICOS Codes 		Not Applicable
Where and when can I start?

Domestic Availability

Hyperflexible Annual Term - 2026

Online

Hyperflexible Annual Term - 2025

Online

Hyperflexible Annual Term - 2024

Online

Overseas Availabilities

Hyperflexible Annual Term - 2026

Sorry, no overseas availabilities found.

Hyperflexible Annual Term - 2025

Sorry, no overseas availabilities found.

Hyperflexible Annual Term - 2024

Sorry, no overseas availabilities found.
For any problems regarding admissions availability for the selected course please contact 13 CQUni (13 27 86) or send us an email at http://contactus.cqu.edu.au/
Entry Requirements - What do I need to start?
Entry Scores
Entry scores are not available, please contact the Student Advice Team for more information
Academic Requirements

There are two entry pathways into the postgraduate suite of Domestic and Family Violence Practice courses.

Eligible applicants will be required to have an Australian bachelor degree or a combination of alternative admission criteria deemed to be equivalent.

  1. Bachelor degrees that may provide the prerequisite study content depending on chosen electives include, but are not limited, to the following degrees:
  • applied social sciences
  • social sciences
  • education, limited to early childhood, primary and secondary teaching
  • justice and legal studies
  • nursing
  • arts
  • occupational therapy
  • health sciences
  1. Alternative admission criteria may include:
  • formal learning undertaken for sub-degree qualifications (AQF Levels 1- 6); or Postgraduate Qualifications (AQF Level 8 & 9) Policy
  • non-formal learning through courses provided by recognised professional bodies, employers and other authorities; and
  • non-formal learning relevant to professional registration or vocational experience related to domestic and family violence; or
  • informal learning in the form of demonstrable expertise.

Applicants seeking admission through a combination of formal, informal and non-formal learning are required to submit a portfolio to support their admission application.

Assumed Knowledge

English

Security Requirements
No information available at this time
Health Requirements
No information available at this time
Fees and Charges
Be Different
  • Indicative Year - 2025
    • Commonwealth Supported Place – Indicative First Year Fee - $17,148
    • Domestic Full Fee Paying – Indicative First Year Fee - $17,616
  • Indicative Year - 2024
    • Domestic Full Fee Paying – Indicative First Year Fee - $16,836
    • International Indicative First Year Fee - $16,836
  • Indicative Year - 2023
    • Domestic Full Fee Paying – Indicative First Year Fee - $15,588
  • Indicative Year - 2022
    • Domestic Full Fee Paying – Indicative First Year Fee - $25,416
Higher Education
Course Features

Awards and Accreditation

Interim Awards CV74 - Graduate Certificate in Domestic and Family Violence Practice
Exit Awards CV74 - Graduate Certificate in Domestic and Family Violence Practice
Accreditation
  • Not applicable

Residential School Requirements

No Residential School for this course.

Practicum/Work Placement

Not applicable

Previous and Current Enrolments

Year Number of Students
2024 27
2023 32
2022 26
2021 35
2020 38
Inherent Requirements
There are Inherent Requirements (IRs) that you need to be aware of, and fulfil, to achieve the core learning outcomes of the units and course. IRs are the essential capabilities, knowledge, behaviours and skills that are needed to complete a unit or course.

Please note that in some instances there may be similarities between course, entry and inherent requirements.

If you experience difficulties meeting these requirements, reasonable adjustments may be made upon contacting accessibility@cqu.edu.au. Adjustment must not compromise the academic integrity of the degree or course chosen at CQUniversity or the legal requirements of field education.

Ethical Behaviour

Examples are:

  • Complying with academic and non-academic misconduct policies and procedures such as CQUniversity’s Student Charter, Student Misconduct Policy and Student Behavioural Misconduct Procedures and Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
  • Complying with the relevant codes, guidelines and policies to facilitate safe, competent interactions and relationships with stakeholders.
Behavioural Stability

Examples are:

  • Responding ethically, with accountability, consistency and professionalism.
  • Working individually and in teams in sometimes volatile and challenging environments.



Legal Compliance

Examples are:

  • Complying with Australian and State laws and professional regulatory requirements.
  • Maintaining applicable professional accreditation.
  • Understanding the legislation pertaining to domestic and family violence, child abuse, stalking, strangulation and sexual assault.




Communication Skills (Verbal, Non-verbal, Written and Technology)

Examples are:

  • Information sharing via professional communication for safety and accountability.
  • Having highly developed verbal, writing and computer skills.
  • Providing timely, accurate and effective delivery of professional instruction and practice.


Cognitive Abilities (Knowledge and Cognitive Skills, Literacy and Numeracy)

Examples are:

  • Having highly developed verbal and non-verbal skills.
  • Having highly developed writing and computer skills.


Sensory Abilities (Visual, Auditory, Tactile)

Examples are:

  • Having visual, auditory and tactile capacity and/or acuity to obtain, process, interpret and translate information.
  • Having competent sensory abilities for the safe and effective delivery of professional intervention practice.



Relational Skills

Examples are:

  • Having empathy, respect and sensitivity.
  • Successfully building rapport with staff and other students.



Reflective Skills

Examples are:

  • Having the capacity for personal and interpersonal understanding.
  • Separating your own personal performance, values and emotions when reflecting on professional matters.
  • Remaining objective and personally separated.
  • Having the capacity to become reflective practitioners.


Sustainable Performance

Examples are:

  • Having sustained physical and mental endurance.
  • Consistently performing multiple tasks over a set period of time.
  • Having resilience and self-care resources to work with challenging clients with serious issues.


Interpersonal Engagement

Examples are:

  • Engaging with clients (victims/survivors and perpetrators), Courts, police, corrective services, child safety services, health services, women's services, men's domestic violence intervention programs and other community organisations.


Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Abilities

Examples are:

  • Understanding and competently using computers and associated technologies.



Core Learning Outcomes
  • 1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theory, policy, and trends in the domestic and family violence field.
  • 2. Evaluate the role and organisational structure of agencies and statutory departments in the domestic and family violence field.
  • 3. Analyse Australian and international domestic and family violence research, interpret implications for practice and develop a framework for applied research.
  • 4. Critique the impact of discrimination and structural inequalities in society, particularly as they affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples.
  • 5. Apply advanced knowledge to address issues involved in working in domestic and family violence practice contexts with diverse individuals and their families.
  • 6. Apply professional knowledge and skills for domestic and family violence practice; including governance, planning for self-care and evidence-based responses.
  Course Learning Outcomes
Australian Qualifications Framework Descriptors 1 2 3 4 5 6
1. KNOWLEDGE Have advanced knowledge within a systematic and coherent body of knowledge that may include the acquisition and application of knowledge and skills in a new or existing discipline or professional area
2. SKILLS Have cognitive skills to review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge and identify and provide solutions to complex problems
3. SKILLS Have cognitive skills to think critically and to generate and evaluate complex ideas
4. SKILLS Have specialised technical and creative skills in a field of highly skilled and/or professional practice
5. SKILLS Have communication skills to demonstrate an understanding of theoretical concept
6. SKILLS Have communication skills to transfer complex knowledge and ideas to a variety of audiences
7. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Be able to make high level, independent judgements in a range of technical or management functions in varied specialised contexts
8. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Be able to initiate, plan, implement and evaluate broad functions within varied specialised technical and/or creative contexts
9. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILL Be responsible and accountable for personal outputs and all aspects of the work or function of others within broad parameters
More Details
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