Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Optometry is designed to provide you with knowledge and clinical skills in vision science. This degree has been designed with a variety of teaching methods and intends to appeal to new and established practitioners who hold an undergraduate degree in optometry. On completion, you will have … For more content click the Read More button below.
Learning Outcomes
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To provide graduates with appropriate training and experience in effecitve communication to a range of audiences including one-on-one interactions with patients and to a group.
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To provide students with a national and global outlook on contemporary issues most relevant to research and the practice of optometry.
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To provide an effective and enriched learning environment that is evidenced based and conducive to the development of communication, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
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To provide advanced displinary knowledge that is both theoretical and practical in a number of contemporary fields most relevant to the optometry profession.
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To provide students with training in the use of specialised optometric technologies and methodologies
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To provide training in evidence based practices to foster life-long learning, critical analysis and independent enquiry.
Program Structure
Students must complete 24 UOC when taken as a standalone program.
Core Course6 Units of Credit:
Prescribed Electives18 Units of Credit:
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You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.
Admission Requirements
Entry Requirements
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Progression Requirements
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Associated Programs
Nested Postgraduate Program
Master of Optometry - MOptom8073 - Optometry and Vision Science
Program Fees
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