About Graduate Certificate In Family Studies in University of Newcastle

What you will study

The Graduate Certificate in Family Studies offers fundamental education in family studies. You will complete one core course and a further three directed courses to enable you to tailor your studies to your interest areas.

You will apply your acquired knowledge and skills of a variety of methodological, practical and theoretical approaches to a range of professional, national and international contexts. You will understand family function and form across a diversity of family life and connect with the basic principles and intervention approaches for working with families in contemporary societies.

Key areas of study include:

• Foundations in Family Studies
• Engaging Families and Communities
• Engaging Fathers in Family Work
• Responding to Domestic and Family Violence
• Applying a Trauma-Informed Approach in Family Work

Career opportunities

Graduates be qualified to effectively support and work with families including men and fathers in areas such as intergenerational trauma or family violence.

You will be prepared with the fundamental skills to deal with the complex issues that arise in varied family contexts, and work toward preventing as well as remediating problems whilst maintaining a commitment to improving overall quality of life. You will promote improved service delivery systems by addressing the quality of direct services, and by seeking to improve accessibility, accountability and coordination among professionals and agencies.

Possible career paths may include:

• family service manager
• family program coordinator
• research and policy officer
• family and relationship services practitioner
• specialist family work roles in nursing, allied health, youth work, drug and alcohol, mental health, early childhood, education, law.

Academic qualification equivalents

Students are required to have a completed bachelor degree in a relevant discipline.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS : 6.5 With minimum of 6.0 in each band 

• TOEFL : 79 Overall score between 79-93 with the following scores in each band-

• Reading= 13-18
• Listening= 12-19
• Speaking= 18-19
• Writing= 21-23

• PTE : 58 Overall score of 58-64

University of Newcastle Highlights

University of Newcastle The Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

• The tuition fee at the University of Newcastle differs depending upon the degree level and whether one is receiving commonwealth assistance, international education or studying part-time.
• Program cost for some popular undergraduate courses is given below-

• Program cost for some popular graduate courses is stated below-

Accommodation Cost

The institute provides its applicants with an option of choosing a mode of accommodation that suits their needs and requirements best. The cost of different types of accommodation available to aspirants seeking admission to UON is as follows: 

Other expenses

Estimated overall expenditure of a year (excluding tuition fee): 20,290 AUD.

English Proficiency Test Scores For International Students

English Language Proficiency Test scores are a measure of the English Language fluency of the applicants. The University of Newcastle expects all students to fulfill these test score requirements, including students whose first language is English or have studied in an educational institution whose language of instruction is English for at least 4 years. These tests are conducted to provide a structural base so that there is no hindrance to cope with the syllabi.

Note: These scores are course dependent and may vary from course to course and hence, students are advised to be well aware of the minimum score requirements.