Program Overview

Graduate Certificate in Global Engagement

Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Global Engagement is a postgraduate program designed to increase your intercultural skills and awareness of global issues, advancing your current career or building the foundation to a new career.

Course Essentials

• Qualification: Graduate Certificate in Global Engagement
• Duration: One semester full-time or equivalent part-time study (6 months full-time)
• Credit: 100 credits (approximately four units)
• CRICOS: D

Course Outline

Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Global Engagement is a postgraduate program that provides a foundational understanding of how power, culture, history, identity, and sustainability intersect with societies across Asia, Africa, and beyond. You'll explore current global issues, such as migrant and refugee flows, popular culture, and regional tensions and opportunities, helping you engage with different cultural perspectives.

Study Combinations

• Advance your career: Add a global perspective to your skillset and boost your employability by pairing this course with any bachelor or master degree.
• Switch careers: If you're looking to start a new career in an area such as global business or human rights, this course would be a great first step. It could provide the cornerstone for a new career or lead to further postgraduate studies, such as our Master of Human Rights or Master of Global Engagement.

Careers

• Foreign or multicultural policy advisor
• Diversity and inclusion consultant
• Community engagement officer
• Humanitarian and advocacy officer
• International business advisor
• Social justice and sustainability advocate

Industries

• Government and public policy
• Non-profit and humanitarian organisations
• International business and trade
• Diplomacy and foreign service
• Environment and sustainability

What You'll Learn

• The competent application of inter-disciplinary knowledge, principles, and concepts from across political science, sociology, history, human geography, and area studies to understanding global and regional engagement and intersections
• The ability to think critically and creatively about the opportunities and challenges presented by contemporary global engagement and possible, equitable, and sustainable futures, by identifying local-regional-global interdependencies
• Effective communication of oral and written arguments to different audiences pertaining to the dynamics, nuances, and epistemologies of contemporary global engagement through a variety of different worldviews, interpersonal, and intercultural skills, and ways of negotiating possible paths forward
• An advanced capacity to understand and navigate global engagement in responsible ways, acknowledging one's own values, cultural beliefs, practices, power relations, and worldviews and how these link to engagement with regional and global matters
• Respect for cultural difference, including Indigenous values and knowledges and those of societies in the wider region, drawing upon theory that deals critically with exploitation and underpins engagement with multiple others
• Knowledge and skills for successfully engaging global issues and regional dynamics across a range of professions and industries

Admission Criteria

• Degree Level Qualification: Applicants require a degree level qualification or equivalent.
• English Requirements: Curtin requires all applicants to demonstrate proficiency in English. Specific English requirements for this course are outlined in the IELTS table below.
  • Writing: 6.0
  • Speaking: 6.0
  • Reading: 6.0
  • Listening: 6.0
  • Overall band score: 6.5

Fees and Scholarships

• Domestic Fee Paying Postgraduate: $11,759* (2025 Fee year)
  • *Based on a first-year full-time study load of 100 credits. The total cost will depend on your course options (i.e., units selected and time taken to complete).

Location

• Curtin Perth: The Curtin campuses or teaching locations where units of this course are offered.

How to Apply

• Direct to Curtin: Please review information on how to apply for the campus of your choice.
• Application Deadlines: View our application deadlines page for further information.

Why Study Global Engagement at Curtin?

• Multidisciplinary Approach: You'll learn from industry and regional experts from diverse disciplines such as sociology, political science, area studies, and geography, gaining unique and comprehensive perspectives on global engagement.
• Designed by Experts: Our course was designed in consultation with key government and industry stakeholders, ensuring the skills you'll learn will translate to the needs of the global workplace.
• Real-World Learning: You'll engage in real-world simulations, policy debates, and role-play scenarios, giving you the confidence and practical skills desired by employers.