This course is not currently taking new admissions.
Overview
The Graduate Diploma in Leadership is designed for both new and experienced leaders wishing to consolidate their learning, challenge their assumptions and underpinning knowledge and skills, and explore various ways to collaborate and introduce purposeful and meaningful change to their workplaces and communities.
Students undertake a series of coursework units which may include a project unit, integrating critical thinking and engagement with theoretical, religious, and spiritual beliefs with a body of knowledge and lived experience. This is done through enquiry-based studies, case studies from leading professionals to address workplace problems and issues, that may lead to practical applications for change in their professional context.
Course learning outcomes
Graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Leadership will be able to
- Critically analyse and synthesise relevant information and concepts that may include various perspectives from religious beliefs and spiritual traditions.
- Articulate advanced knowledge of leadership theories and frameworks that may include perspectives from religious beliefs and spiritual traditions to inform leadership practice in complex contexts.
- Communicate, both orally and in writing, coherent leadership ideas and decisions in logical, relevant, and engaging ways to appropriate professional audiences.
- Critically reflect on and respond appropriately to theological, religious, social, cultural, ethical and / or sustainability issues from a leadership perspective.
- Participate, coordinate, and actively collaborate with other professionals to make decisions to facilitate healthy organisational development and transformation.
Course structure
| Graduate Diploma in Leadership Indicative teaching sequence To be eligible to graduate from the Graduate Diploma in Leadership, a student needs to complete 90 points of core units and 54 points made up of postgraduate elective leadership units listed below. | |||
| Unit Code | Unit Title | Unit Type | Points |
| LE8001Z | Framework for Leadership Transformation | Core | 18 |
| LE8002Z | Organisational Transformation | Core | 18 |
| LE8003Z | Community Transformation Project | Core | 18 |
| LE9001Z | Strategic Leadership | Core | 18 |
| LE9002Z | Governance and Financial Literacy | Core | 18 |
| LE9003Z | Ethics, Law, and Professional Practice | Elective | 18 |
| LE9004Z | Collaborative Leadership | Elective | 18 |
| LE9005Z | Mentoring and Coaching | Elective | 18 |
| LE9006Z | Building Effective Teams | Elective | 18 |
| LE9007Z | Managing Organisational Behaviours | Elective | 18 |
| LE9008Z | Financial Management | Elective | 18 |
| LE9009Z | Managing Organisational Performance | Elective | 18 |
| Students who have completed LE8001Z, LE8002Z and LE8003Z and one elective unit may exit with a Graduate Certificate in Leadership (Transformational Stream). The elective unit can be chosen from any University of Divinity unit being offered. | |||
Study Mode
Coursework will be delivered in a blended approach including a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning including compulsory online webinars or in-person seminars and intensives, alongside self-directed learning modules.
Duration
The Graduate Diploma in Leadership is only offered part-time in 2024 and 2025.
| Minimum duration | 1 year |
| Maximum part-time | 3 years |
Pathways to this course
Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Leadership can progress to the Graduate Diploma in Leadership.
Graduate pathways
Graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Leadership can progress to the Master of Leadership.
Admission criteria
The minimum admission requirements for the Graduate Diploma in Leadership are:
- an undergraduate degree and five years’ work experience, including at least three years management experience, or
- the Graduate Certificate in Leadership at the University of Divinity or an equivalent award from a recognised higher education provider).
- International visa-holder students must also have an IELTS Academic score of 6.5 with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent.
Credit
| Award | Maximum credit | Specific rules |
| Graduate Diploma in Leadership | 72 points |
Fee summary
The Graduate Diploma in Leadership requires completion of 144 points.
Fees in 2025
Total course cost: $22,800
- Cost per 18 point postgraduate unit: $2,850
Fees are subject to change from year to year. For more information about fees, please visit the Fees page.
