Graduate Diploma of Cultural Heritage

2024 Deakin University Handbook

Year	2024 course information
Award granted	Graduate Diploma of Cultural Heritage
Deakin course code	A685
Faculty	Faculty of Arts and Education
Campus	This is an A785 Master of Cultural Heritage exit only option.
Duration	1 year full-time or part-time equivalent
Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition	The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8.

Course overview

The Graduate Diploma of Cultural Heritage aims to produce graduates who are able to demonstrate, in their professional life, high level skills across a broad range of heritage practice. These courses are designed to develop an extensive, cross-disciplinary knowledge of heritage principles and practice and an awareness of community sensitivities.

Alternate exits

Graduate Certificate of Cultural Heritage (A585)

Course rules

To exit from the Masters of Cultural Heritage with an award of Graduate Diploma of Cultural Heritage a student must have successfully completed 8 credit points of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies coursework units including:

4 credit points of compulsory core units below

AIM705

Heritage Practice: Fundamentals

AIM723 Heritage Interpretation [No longer available for enrolment]

AIM734 Understanding Significance [No longer available for enrolment]

AIM736

Museums, Heritage and Society

AND 4 credit points from the specified list of units below

AIM703

Heritage Practice: Conservation and Managing Change

AIM704 Heritage, Development and Tourism in the Asia-Pacific Region [No longer available for enrolment]

AIM708