About Swinburne University of Technology

The Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care at Swinburne offers practical instruction and workplace experiences that will give you a true understanding of how to contribute in a work environment. It aims to ensure you learn the critical skills and develop the confidence employers will recognise and value. You will learn to professionally care for and communicate with children, support play and learning and basic developmental needs, and about providing food and basic health services.

This qualification reflects the role of workers in a range of early childhood education settings who work within the requirements of the Education and Care Services National Regulations and the National Quality Standard. These support the implementation of an approved learning framework, and support children's well-being. Depending on the setting, educators may work under direct supervision or autonomously.

In some, the entrepreneurial spirit runs deep. If that’s you, the Swinburne Diploma of Business is the ideal qualification to realise your dreams of starting and running your own business.

Of course, the adaptable skills and knowledge you’ll gain aren’t limited to use in your own business. They apply to a plethora of business career paths, ensuring you’re job-ready from day one.

The course focuses on analysing and interpreting data and how to incorporate this useful and current skill into a small to medium business. You’ll learn to develop and implement a business strategy and explore a range of online collaborative platforms (such as Trello and Miro).

The Diploma Early Childhood Education and Care at Swinburne offers practical instruction and workplace experiences that will give you a true understanding of how to contribute in a work environment. It aims to ensure you learn the critical skills and develop the confidence employers will recognise and value. You will learn to plan, deliver and evaluate developmentally appropriate curriculums for all ages of children. This qualification reflects the role of educators in a range of early childhood education settings who work within the requirements of the Education and Care Services National Regulations and the National Quality Standard. Educators holding a Diploma qualification work as Team Leaders and/or Educational Leaders in Long Day Care environments, or Assistants in Pre-school settings. Desirable qualities for this work are patience, understanding, imagination, cheerfulness, energy, adaptability, physical fitness and a willingness to take responsibility.

The Diploma of Marketing and Communication sets you up for a diverse career managing strategic messages through new and traditional media.

Learn to design and develop marketing communication plans in a hands-on environment and gain a strong understanding of advances in digital and social media. Discover how to identify and evaluate marketing opportunities and leverage digital and traditional media for audiences across all platforms.

You’ll put your newfound skills into practice and gain real experience working to a brief, budget and brand through industry-linked engagement opportunities and real-world projects for internal and external clients.

The Diploma of Social Media Marketing will provide graduates with social media and digital marketing knowledge to help you operate successfully in a Marketing or Business role. Social Media is an important element of any business and requires specialist knowledge to ensure it has an impact and drives results. This Diploma will give you the skills and confidence to ensure you are ready to implement Social Media Marketing in your own business or any job role.

From the outset, Swinburne’s Bachelor of Business challenges you to be innovative, to make a positive social impact and, to be clear on how you can contribute as an individual and as part of a team in government, for-profit and for-purpose businesses.

Select a major area of specialisation and combine it with your core business studies to become an entrepreneurial thinker and business innovator.

Develop the advanced marketing and managerial skills needed to think strategically and succeed in this exciting industry. In this major, you'll learn how to deploy traditional and digital marketing strategies, research the market, understand consumer behaviour, logically design a marketing plan, promote a brand and use data to inform marketing decisions that deliver the integrated marketing strategies.

The Certificate IV in Mental Health aims to give students the knowledge, skills and values required to work as a professional in community mental health. Designed to ensure a balance between theory and practical learning, this course invites students to delve into topics such as mental health recovery and the promotion of ongoing wellbeing. The course is delivered via a blended delivery model, which includes live and interactive online tutorials, on-campus practicals and simulations, and industry placement. Swinburne, in response to current industry trends, is including the new Department of Education and Training Unit for Mental Health work in the NDIS (Psychosocial Disability).

Students enrolled in the Certificate IV in Mental Health may also be eligible to complete a dual qualification with Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work. In this course, students will draw on their lived experience of mental illness as either a consumer or carer to further understand and support their peers in the mental health sector.

Develop advanced skills in training and assessment in this dual diploma designed for experienced vocational trainers.

You'll cover four clusters - Delivery/Professional Development, Design of Programs, Quality Assessments and Evaluation/e-Learning.

You'll gain experience in creating and delivering engaging course materials, evaluating training programs and you'll graduate equipped with the skills and knowledge to work either within a training organisation or as an independent trainer.

The Certificate III in Health Services Assistance is an accredited course that will train you to work in support roles across the health industry.

You’ll develop the foundational skills required to work directly with patients under the supervision of professional health staff. This is essential work in a highly functioning health system. Your understanding of how to assist and support these staff is critical to the care of patients and clients.

You’ll learn to ensure quality of care, safety, infection control, empathy and respect. You’ll also develop practical skills in patient care and movement, transport, bed making, clinical cleaning and food service.