Graduate Diploma
The Tasmanian technology start-up sector has approached the University of Tasmania to co-design and co-develop a Graduate Diploma for high achieving ICT graduates with a passion for coding.
Students who are offered a place in this course are digital innovators who want to advance their entrepreneurial, leadership, design, and technical skills. Upon completion, you will have an authentic and tested understanding of what it means to engage in innovative product and service design, with a go-to-market focus.
You will understand what it means to be entrepreneurial and how to be a highly effective communicator who can "feed-into" the complexities of different business contexts and thrive in them. Your studies will include a large project-based component where you will work with the local tech industry in the design and pitch of an ICT product.
This course will equip you with advanced and diverse opportunities to become an ICT entrepreneur in possession of superior skills and capabilities at the early graduate level. Designed for those who want to branch out, build their own paths, and bring new ideas to life.
Bachelor Degree preferably in IT or cognate discipline and Successful completion of the programming ability test. Entry to the course is competitive. Applicants will be ranked on a combination of their programming ability test result along with their undergraduate degree results.
The Graduate Diploma in Technology and Innovation explores entrepreneurialism, leadership, design, and technical programming specifically geared to the burgeoning Tasmanian technology start-up sector. Graduates will be qualified in the application, development, and user experiences of ICT services and products. With the capacity to plan high-quality innovative ICT projects.
This is an excellent opportunity to access mentoring and direct contact with the Tasmanian tech start-up sector. Demand for these skills continues to grow exponentially year on year as employment projections for Software and Application Programmers are upward trending and set to grow by grow by 23% by 2024.*
Graduates of this course will have the ability to advance their careers in:
*Source: Job Outlook Australia, ABS Labour Force Survey, National Skills Commission trend data to May 2019 and projections to 2024.
The Graduate Diploma of Technology and Innovation (GradDipTechInnov) provides leading students with advanced skills to be highly competitive and job-ready. The course focus is on product design and its skills and on entrepreneurialism, leadership, the technical capabilities needed to enhance a software engineering skill set required to actively participate in the burgeoning Tasmanian technology start-up sector.
The course is based on design thinking and is co-created and co-delivered with ICT entrepreneurs based in Tasmania who also operate internationally. It is discipline agnostic; that is, skills outside ICT will be embedded to achieve course objectives. The course will equip students with advanced and diverse opportunities to become ICT professionals in possession of superior skills and capabilities at the early graduate level.
Students will complete 4 core units and 3 project units equating to100 credit points.
The GradDipTechInnov is a bespoke course designed to build on the outcomes of any ICT undergraduate offering. The nature of the course is to up-skill undergraduates to a specialised sector. As such, credit or recognition for prior learning will not apply.