Graduate Certificate of Secondary Design and Technologies
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Graduate Certificate of Secondary Design and Technologies |
| Deakin course code | E522 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus | This course is only offered Online* * This course is offered in conjunction with the Department of Education (DE). Students will be required to attend intensives at the Geelong (Waurn Ponds) campus and in the Melbourne CBD (Central Business District). |
| Online | Yes |
| Duration | 2 years part-time |
| Course Map - enrolment planning tool | This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 1 2025. Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central. |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8 |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Mandatory student checks
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Fees and charges
Course overview
This course develops professional knowledge, skills and dispositions of teachers practising out-of-field in Design and Technologies and develops their capacity for leadership in Design and Technologies in secondary schools. The Technologies and Society and Creating Design Solutions strands of the Victorian Curriculum: Design and Technologies are taught across all four units, with an emphasis on the four Technologies Contexts in the central two units. Teachers will develop a more sophisticated understanding of the design process and systems thinking and its economic, environmental, ethical, legal, and aesthetic role in our society both locally and globally, allowing them to integrate a range of materials and technologies into their teaching practice. It draws on research-informed practice in Design and Technologies pedagogies, curriculum, assessment, and inclusion and ethics. Graduates of this degree will be supported to develop strong regional professional networks in their own schools and the Victorian educational sector.
Indicative student workload
You can expect to participate in a range of teaching activities each week. This could include online and/or intensive seminars (face-to-face) and online interaction. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period for each credit point undertaking required teaching, learning and assessment activities.
Career opportunities
The course enhances curriculum leadership and career progression of practicing teachers in secondary Design and Technologies.
For more information go to DeakinTALENT.
Participation requirements
Course delivery is blended and students are required to dedicate time to weekly engagement with located or online teaching and learning activities and resources. This is recommended at combined total 8-10 hours per week per unit including active learning/engagement either face to face or online, and independent study.
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. More information available at Disability support services.
Mandatory student checks
Any unit which contains work integrated learning, a community placement or interaction with the community may require a police check, Working with Children Check or other check.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Apply specialist knowledge and technical proficiency to facilitate student learning in the Design and Technologies Secondary curriculum. |
| Communication | Generate and employ a range of communication strategies to interpret and translate complex knowledge to support engagement with learning in science education in diverse settings. |
| Digital literacy | Use expert knowledge of, and technical proficiency in, digital technologies that can be specifically used to develop students’ design processes. |
| Critical thinking | Identify and critically evaluate issues of safety, inclusion, sustainability, economics and ethics pertinent to the design and use of contemporary technological products and processes. |
| Problem solving | Apply key concepts and practices from design and systems thinking to investigate, generate, produce, and evaluate solutions to problems using a variety of materials and technologies. |
Approved at Faculty Board May 2023
Course rules
To complete the Graduate Certificate of Secondary Design and Technologies students must pass 4 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 4 credit points of core units
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Note:
- This course is part-time only.
Course structure
Core Units
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) |
| EDT705 | Design and Systems Thinking |
| EDT706 | Engineering Systems, Food and Fibre Production |
| EDT707 | Food and Material Processing Technologies |
| EDT708 | Ethical and Sustainable Design in Local and Global Contexts |
Course duration
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as failing of units or accessing or completing placements.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.