Short courses
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Upskill fast. La Trobe’s short courses help you get up-to-speed in your industry or make a switch into a new career. Build the skills you choose.
Government subsidised short courses available
Retrain or upskill by completing a certificate in as little as six months. Choose one of our select certificate programs and the Commonwealth Government’s Job Ready Graduates Package will subsidise your costs.
Arts, social sciences and communications
Business and commerce
Education and teaching
The Science of Language and Reading – An Introduction
Advance your knowledge and skills in the field of reading instruction and support.
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Mental health and wellbeing in schools
Gain valuable skills to improve the emotional wellbeing of your students.
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Health
Endorsed Scheduled Medicines (ESM) Online Case Studies
Discuss the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, uses and contraindications of medicines available to endorsed podiatrists.
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Introduction to Counselling Skills
Focus on the development of effective, basic counselling skills.
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Introduction to Art Therapy
This two-day workshop offers a more in-depth version of the one-day taster workshop.
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Art Therapy Supervision Skills for Health Professionals
This 5-day short course will provide theoretical components and opportunities to practise supervision skills in a group setting.
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Introduction to Counselling Skills
Focus on the development of effective, basic counselling skills.
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Introduction to Art Therapy
This two-day workshop offers a more in-depth version of the one-day taster workshop.
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Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Scrutinise different types of leadership and whether the nomenclature of leadership and management is interchangeable or two different skillsets.
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Pain Management
Get the skills and knowledge fundamental to providing quality pain management care.
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Comprehensive Health Assessment of the Older Person
Develop hands-on skills in assessment, care planning and care delivery for older people.
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Perioperative Nurse Surgical Assistant (PNSA)
Advance your knowledge and skills in the field of perioperative nursing practice.
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Prostate Nursing Care
Develop knowledge and skills in the specialist practice area of prostate nursing care.
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Urology and Continence
An opportunity to examine contemporary urological and continence nursing.
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Advanced Health Assessment
Perform and interpret advanced nursing assessments on patients and clients.
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Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Scrutinise different types of leadership and whether the nomenclature of leadership and management is interchangeable or two different skillsets.
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Re-entry to Practice (RN)
Meet the requirements for Division One registration, allowing re-entry to nursing within the Australian healthcare context.
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Advanced Respiratory Care
In this advanced respiratory care course, we will focus on the knowledge and skills in therapeutic approaches to respiratory care.
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Person-centred Care Through Shared Decision Making
Understand and strengthen your delivery of person-centred care through shared decision making.
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First Nations Perinatal Health
The First Nations Perinatal Health short course is designed for midwives and maternal and child health nurses working with First Nations families during the perinatal period and wanting to provide culturally safe care.
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Data Collection and Analysis in Midwifery Research
This short course is targeted at midwives and maternal and child health nurses and who would like to gain increased understanding of research and evidence.
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Introduction to Evidence-based Midwifery Practice
Interpret and understand research evidence and its impact on midwifery practice. Specific areas of focus within this course will include the foundations of evidence-based practice with an understanding of various research designs including quantitative and qualitative approaches.
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IT and engineering
Law and criminology
Science
Emergency Responses in Animal Health
Explore animal disease emergencies and their impact across 1-2 weeks of residential learning and up to 120 hours of self-paced online study. From field work and reporting to management and decision-making, you will learn how to how to respond to animal health emergencies through a series of command-and-control structures.
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Top-rated globally
La Trobe is in the top 1% of universities worldwide.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2020, World University Rankings 2021; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 2020, Ranking Web of Universities
Most adaptable
Employers ranked La Trobe graduates the most innovative and adaptable in Victoria.
Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT), 2020, 2019 Employer Satisfaction Survey
High employer satisfaction
Our graduates have an employer satisfaction rating of 86.1%
Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT), 2020, 2019 Employer Satisfaction Survey [PDF, 7.69MB]