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Make a difference in peoples’ lives. You’ll learn how to improve their social, personal, and economic situations. Focus on new approaches to respectful and effective work with Indigenous communities. Promote fairness.

Connect with and support people, families and communities. You’ll explore social change, cultural diversity, and human rights. Build real-world experience and networks through field placements. Graduate ready to make a lasting difference to people’s lives.

Explore your own values, assumptions, and views to understand how people define themselves and how you might help them. Communicate, reflect, negotiate, and resolve conflict. Specialise in family and child support or professional youth work.

Develop tools for a career dedicated to social justice, welfare, and advocacy. You’ll work on communication, counselling, and policy theory. Build your experience and contacts through work placements. Electives include mediation and child protection.

This community welfare course prepares you to work with clients and colleagues in human services. Placements add context to your studies with real world experience. Explore youth work and case management. Adopt the values and ethics of the profession.

Work as a rehabilitation counsellor, perhaps in government, insurance, private or not-for-profit rehabilitation services. Put your theory into practice through fieldwork, and applied counselling and research methods.

Study social work theories and skills. During professional placements, you’ll get to know how human service organisations operate. Focus your honours year on research and practice. Explore legal and policy considerations.

Take advantage of more than 40 years of counselling experience with this flexible degree. You’ll apply theory to around 400 hours of work placement. On graduation, you'll qualify for membership with the Australian Counselling Association.

Prepare for a senior role in the disability field. This short masters degree will give you a holistic view of the industry, so you can work in program management or policy development. Develop new leadership skills that allow you to push for positive change.

Study the fundamentals of counselling before diving into specialty topics such as relationship, substance use and rehabilitation therapies. Hone your practical skills so that you can work in a variety of social work and community care professions.