Graduate Diploma
This course prepares students to work as archivists and records managers, focusing on managing and preserving records, designing recordkeeping systems, and analyzing their societal impacts. It includes a three-week practicum and serves as a pathway to advanced degrees.
This course will qualify you to work as an archivist and records manager in a range of organisations, including in community and national archives and the records offices of government, non-profit and corporate organisations.
You'll learn how to manage and preserve records and archives and to design recordkeeping systems. You'll also critically analyse recordkeeping systems as instruments of power, accountability, identity, memory and social justice - giving you the skills to ensure efficient and ethical management of information.
During your studies you'll complete a three-week practicum in a records or an archives setting, gaining real-world experience and the opportunity to develop your professional networks.
This course is also a pathway to a Master of Information Science and the Master of Information Science (Extended).
Applicants require a minimum of a three year bachelor's degree from a recognised tertiary education provider. The course relies on technology skills, so applicants must be competent in word processing and the use of the internet, including web browsing software, before starting the course.
Curtin requires all applicants to demonstrate proficiency in English. Specific English requirements for this course are outlined in the IELTS table below.
This course will qualify you to work as an archivist and records manager in a range of organisations, including in community and national archives and the records offices of government, non-profit and corporate organisations.
You'll learn how to manage and preserve records and archives and to design recordkeeping systems. You'll also critically analyse recordkeeping systems as instruments of power, accountability, identity, memory and social justice - giving you the skills to ensure efficient and ethical management of information.
During your studies you'll complete a three-week practicum in a records or an archives setting, gaining real-world experience and the opportunity to develop your professional networks.
This course is also a pathway to a Master of Information Science and the Master of Information Science (Extended).
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