The Graduate Diploma of Psychology provides fourth year training in Psychology for students who have completed an accredited three year undergraduate psychology program.

For students who have not completed an accredited three year undergraduate psychology program, the Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Bridging) can be undertaken prior to the Graduate Diploma of Psychology.

You participate in a small group research project and learn the skills of devising and implementing a research project along with the skills of analysing data and writing a thesis.

Study the methods and ethics of scientific investigation and evidence-based practice.  Access JCU's observation suites, electrically shielded psychophysiology recording facilities, drugs and human performance research facilities.

Subjects include:

• Ethics for Research and Professional and Evidence Based Practice
• Design and Analysis for Research
• Operationalising the Scientific Practitioner Model
• Psychology: Now and the Future.

Graduates of this course who wish to become fully registered as psychologists must complete, in addition to this course, two years of supervised practice in the field, or an accredited Masters degree with one further year of supervised practice.

Professional recognition

This program is accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC).