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UWA Plus micro-credentials are professional short courses that demonstrate your skills, knowledge and experience in a given subject area. Our micro-credentials focus on skills that are in high demand by employers and industry - complete a micro-credential for your professional development and improve your employability and future career outcomes.

We've designed UWA Plus micro-credentials to suit your needs - they are short and affordable so you can easily fit them into your lifestyle, with the flexibility to pick and choose what works for you. Update, upskill or reskill; complete a one-off micro-credential or stack them up and convert into credit towards an undergraduate or postgraduate course - the choice is yours.

Select from a range of areas, including professional writing, education and environmental science, economics, geology, engineering, health and more - with more UWA Plus micro-credentials on the way.

Email to enquire about your organisation's training needs or discounts for registering a group of employees uwaplus@uwa.edu.au.

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Featured micro-credentials

 
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Sleep Devices

This micro-credential streamlines the knowledge required by dental health professionals to successfully manage patients with obstructive sleep related breathing disorders such snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea.

6pd points

  
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Introductory Environmental Science – Pollution and Waste Management

This micro-credential provides a grounding in environmental science topics as they relate to pollution, waste management and climate change.

2pd points
 
 

Teaching Outdoors

This micro-credential aims to introduce primary or secondary school teachers and educators to the wealth of opportunities for incorporating outdoor learning activities into teaching aspects of the STEM and HASS curriculums at all levels.

2pd points
 

Tailings Management Micro-Credentials

With the current acute shortage of suitably trained and qualified tailings management engineers and personnel, an advanced knowledge in tailings management will improve your employability and future career outcomes.

July micro-credential enrolment has now closed.

Micro-credentials offered in October 2022:

  • Tailings Dewatering Technologies
  • Tailings Operations
  • Tailings Compliance

 
Responsible Agricultural Production 

History and Basic Characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

This micro-credential will provide you with foundational knowledge required for understanding FASD. This will include covering the historical and social context of FASD, characteristics of FASD and common comorbidities.

3pd points
 

Professional Writing and Communication

Professional Writing and Communication provides interactive instruction and practice in professional workplace communication.

Through workshops and assessments, you'll develop skills in report writing, the organisation of logical arguments, research and compositional strategies, media literacy, the use of web-based resources and forms of oral communication.

2pd points

Micro-credentials by area of interest

Agricultural Environmental and Biological Sciences

  • Characterising Groundwater Resources

    Groundwater is a vital resource in many regions of the world for sustaining populations and groundwater-dependent ecosystems. This micro-credential focuses on techniques for quantifying and utilizing groundwater resources.

    Start date
    20 June 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Understanding Environmental DNA

    This unit will develop your understanding of environmental DNA with emphasis on the entire process from sample collection through to reporting of findings.

    Start date
    27 June 2022 or 26 June 2023
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST

  • Ecological monitoring

    This micro-credential gives participants the skills to assess, design and implement robust ecological monitoring. The micro-credential concentrates on real world examples and gives students the opportunity to apply their skills to existing industry examples.

    Start date
    4 July 2022
    Cost
    $550 inc. GST

  • Performance Measurement with Data Envelopment Analysis

    Performance measurement is important for evaluating how well firms are using available resources given the available production technology. This micro-credential introduces the fundamental concepts of performance measurement from an economic perspective, which is the basis for efficiency and productivity analysis.

    Start date
    4 July 2022 or 3 October 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Applied Benefit: Cost Analysis

    Applied Benefit: Cost Analysis is one of the most important and widely used tools of economics. In this micro-credential, participants will learn how to apply Benefit: Cost Analysis in a rigorous, informative and practical way, that recognises the importance of consulting with stakeholders and experts.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Data Analysis with R for Agricultural and Environmental Science

    The micro-credential introduces students to data analysis and report preparation using R and R studio at a workplace standard.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Responsible Agricultural Production

    This micro-credential will use a philosophical approach to critically analyse agricultural activities around the world. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to conduct a fair assessment of current and future ethical issues arising from agricultural production.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $550 inc. GST

  • Teaching Outdoors

    This micro-credential aims to introduce primary or secondary school teachers and educators to the wealth of opportunities for incorporating outdoor learning activities into teaching aspects of the STEM and HASS curriculums at all levels.

    Start date
    8 August 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST

  • Introductory Environmental Science – Pollution and Waste Management

    This micro-credential provides a grounding in environmental science topics as they relate to pollution, waste management and climate change.

    Start date
    29 August 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST

  • Understanding Urban Soils

    Soils are essential to sustain terrestrial life on Earth and perform critical ecosystem functions. Increasingly, soils are just as important in the highly modified environments of cities and peri-urban areas as they are in natural or agricultural environments. In this course you will explore and the past and present connections between soils and urban ecosystems, against the background of increasing urbanisation of Earth's human population.

    Start date
    17 October 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST

  • Data Analysis with R for Compositional Data

    In this course you will learn to identify and analyse compositional data, which are usually multivariate, using the relevant packages available in the R/RStudio environment.

    Start date
    7 November 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST
Business and Commerce

  • Applied Benefit: Cost Analysis

    Applied Benefit: Cost Analysis is one of the most important and widely used tools of economics. In this micro-credential, participants will learn how to apply Benefit: Cost Analysis in a rigorous, informative and practical way, that recognises the importance of consulting with stakeholders and experts.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Data Analytics in Portfolio Investments

    This micro-credential is designed specifically to equip you with the specialised skill set required in financial data analytics to help make informed investment decisions.

    Start date
    20 August 2022
    Cost
    $1,200 inc. GST

  • Performance Measurement with Data Envelopment Analysis

    Performance measurement is important for evaluating how well firms are using available resources given the available production technology. This micro-credential introduces the fundamental concepts of performance measurement from an economic perspective, which is the basis for efficiency and productivity analysis.

    Start date
    4 July 2022 or 3 October 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST
Data and Computer Science
Earth Sciences

  • Advanced Structural Geology

    This micro-credential aims to provide professional geologists with the opportunity to build upon their existing knowledge and skills in structural geology and to be able to expand their understanding of structural analysis applied to ore deposits.

    Start date
    19 September 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Advanced Structural Geology Field Excursion

    This micro-credential provides professional geologists with an opportunity to build upon their existing knowledge and skills in structural geology on a field excursion focusing on the tectonic and metallogenic evolution of the Kalgoorlie Terrane (WA).

    Start date
    24 September 2022
    Cost
    $1,850 inc. GST

  • Introduction to Groundwater Systems

    Groundwater is a vital freshwater resource that supports billions of people and a vast range of ecosystems globally. This UWA micro-credential introduces the key components and processes at play in groundwater systems.

    Start date
    30 May 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Characterising Groundwater Resources

    Groundwater is a vital resource in many regions of the world for sustaining populations and groundwater-dependent ecosystems. This micro-credential focuses on techniques for quantifying and utilizing groundwater resources.

    Start date
    20 June 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Teaching Outdoors

    This micro-credential aims to introduce primary or secondary school teachers and educators to the wealth of opportunities for incorporating outdoor learning activities into teaching aspects of the STEM and HASS curriculums at all levels.

    Start date
    8 August 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST

  • Geophysical Exploration: Basic Principles and Magnetics

    This micro-credential covers the basic principles used in geophysical exploration for mineral systems with a focus on the magnetic method.

    Start date
    31 October 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Geophysical Exploration: Gravity, Radiometric, Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods

    This micro-credential focuses on key concepts of a diverse set of geophysical methods as applied to mineral system-based exploration.

    Start date
    7 November 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST
Education
  • Introduction to Classical Test and Rasch Measurement Theories 

    In this course you will gain an introduction to the historical development of test theory and how modern theory has superseded traditional theory in many applications, especially in large-scale assessments.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $2,650 inc. GST

  • Advanced Course in Rasch Measurement Theory

    In this course you will conduct analyses of real and simulated data sets using new features available in RUMM2030 and one assignment where you have the option of analysing your own data.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $2,650 inc. GST
  • Teaching Historical Fiction 

    The micro-credential provides interactive instruction and collaborative opportunities to explore historical fiction in English education.

    Start date
    Online 28 July 2022
    On-campus 16 January 2023
    Cost
    $440 inc. GST

  • Teaching Outdoors

    This micro-credential aims to introduce primary or secondary school teachers and educators to the wealth of opportunities for incorporating outdoor learning activities into teaching aspects of the STEM and HASS curriculums at all levels.

    Start date
    8 August 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST

  • Teaching and Learning with Young Adult Fiction: Part A

    This micro-credential provides an overview of young adult fiction, as novel, hybrid story, multimodal and graphic stories and games, and how it can be used to support and extend learning across the curriculum. Key research, trends and genres are examined.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $825 inc. GST

  • Teaching Poetry: From anon to AI

    This micro-credential provides interactive instruction and collaborative opportunities to explore the role of poetry in English education. Track the notion of the lyric I through time, beginning with anonymous poetry, through Romanticism, the rise of identity politics and finally to the frontier of AI.

    Start date
    24 April 2022
    Cost
    $440 inc. GST

  • Teaching and Learning with Young Adult Fiction: Part B

    This micro-credential examines the application of young adult fiction to build curriculum content, motivate students, build literacy skills and twenty first century skills in middle school and upper primary school classes.

    Start date
    10 October 2022
    Cost
    $825 inc. GST

  • Einsteinian Science for Primary School Teachers

    This micro-credential is designed for primary school teachers and other educators interested in changing the way science is taught at an early age through the introduction of modern Einsteinian concepts of space and time, gravity and quanta. 

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $825 inc. GST

  • Einsteinian Science for Secondary School Teachers

    This micro-credential is designed for secondary school teachers and other educators interested in changing the paradigm of school science teaching through the introduction of modern Einsteinian concepts of space, time and gravity,  and quantum processes including subatomic particles, mobile phones, renewable energy, climate science and medical imaging, all presented through activities and models easily accessible to students from years 7-12.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $825 inc. GST
Engineering

  • Tailings Testing: An Introduction

    This introductory level micro-credential has been designed for professionals working in the field of tailings management, but have had little or no formal training in the field.

    Start date
    The course starts on 4 July 2022. Participants will have until 2 September 2022 to complete the micro-credential.
    Cost
    $1,100 inc. GST

  • Tailings Water Balance

    In this micro-credential the components of a water balance are discussed and methods for quantifying these components illustrated. Different types of water balance, from simple databases to complex probabilistic numerical simulations are described.

    Start date
    The course starts on 4 July 2022. Participants will have until 2 September 2022 to complete the micro-credential.
    Cost
    $1,100 inc. GST

  • Case Studies of Tailings Failures

    The objectives of this micro-credential is to illustrate the linkages between design, construction and operation of a tailings storage facility (TSF) and how deficiencies in any of these processes can impact on the stability of a TSF.

    Start date
    The course starts on 4 July 2022. Participants will have until 2 September 2022 to complete the micro-credential.
    Cost
    $1,100 inc. GST
Health and Biomedical Sciences

  • Breastfeeding- A Foundation for Human Health 1 and 2

    No country in the world is meeting minimum recommended durations for breastfeeding. Early weaning is resulting in significant costs to human health, survival, economic and environmental outcomes. Although scientific discoveries that improve our understanding of how breastfeeding works are increasing, these discoveries are taking many years to reach patient care. These Lactology micro-credentials fast-track this new knowledge from the laboratory to the community. 

    Start date
    Dates for early 2023 coming soon
    Cost
    Special introductory offer $495 (incl GST) for each micro-credential

  • rTMS Training course - practical application

    In this microcredential you will receive hands on training on state of the art rTMS devices with assisted neuronavigation technology.

    Start date
    5 September 2022
    Cost
    $770 inc. GST

  • rTMS training course - theory component

    This micro-credential aims to teach the neuroscientific theory behind repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatments, including a background on the neuroscience, biophysical principles and technological advances.

    Start date
    5 September 2022
    Cost
    On campus mode $550 inc GST
    Online only mode $495 inc GST

  • Autism: Contemporary diagnostic frameworks

    This unit will provide students with knowledge of key diagnostic concepts and their application to autism assessment; contemporary autism diagnostic frameworks and criteria; and changes in autism assessment approaches over time.

    Start date
    1 October 2022
    Cost
    $330 inc GST

  • Principles of Best Practice in Autism Assessment and Diagnosis

    This micro-credential will provide students with knowledge and understanding of Australian and international best practice approaches to diagnostic assessment for autism.

    Start date
    1 October 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc GST

  • Microbiology for Optometry

    This micro-credential covers the role and activity of microbes as agents of infectious disease, the way in which the host's immune response deals with infectious agents and how it can be exploited to elicit protection against these agents.

    Start date
    14 November 2022
    Cost
    $1,100 inc GST
Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Professional Writing and Communication

    Professional Writing and Communication provides interactive instruction and practice in professional workplace communication. Through workshops and assessments, you'll develop skills in report writing, the organisation of logical arguments, research and compositional strategies, media literacy, the use of web-based resources and forms of oral communication.

    Start date
    1 February 2022
    19 July 2022
    Cost
    $440 inc. GST
  • Introduction to Classical Test and Rasch Measurement Theories 

    In this course you will gain an introduction to the historical development of test theory and how modern theory has superseded traditional theory in many applications, especially in large-scale assessments.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $2,650 inc. GST

  • Advanced Course in Rasch Measurement Theory

    In this course you will conduct analyses of real and simulated data sets using new features available in RUMM2030 and one assignment where you have the option of analysing your own data.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $2,650 inc. GST
  • Teaching Historical Fiction 

    The micro-credential provides interactive instruction and collaborative opportunities to explore historical fiction in English education.

    Start date
    Online 28 July 2022
    On-campus 16 January 2023
    Cost
    $440 inc. GST

  • Teaching Outdoors

    This micro-credential aims to introduce primary or secondary school teachers and educators to the wealth of opportunities for incorporating outdoor learning activities into teaching aspects of the STEM and HASS curriculums at all levels.

    Start date
    8 August 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST

  • Teaching Poetry: From Anon to AI

    This micro-credential provides interactive instruction and collaborative opportunities to explore the role of poetry in English education. Track the notion of the lyric I through time, beginning with anonymous poetry, through Romanticism, the rise of identity politics and finally to the frontier of AI.

    Start date
    24 April 2022
    Cost
    $440 inc. GST
Physical Sciences and Mathematics

  • Einsteinian Science for Primary School Teachers

    This micro-credential is designed for primary school teachers and other educators interested in changing the way science is taught at an early age through the introduction of modern Einsteinian concepts of space and time, gravity and quanta. 

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $825 inc. GST

  • Einsteinian Science for Secondary School Teachers

    This micro-credential is designed for secondary school teachers and other educators interested in changing the paradigm of school science teaching through the introduction of modern Einsteinian concepts of space, time and gravity,  and quantum processes including subatomic particles, mobile phones, renewable energy, climate science and medical imaging, all presented through activities and models easily accessible to students from years 7-12.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $825 inc. GST

  • Teaching Outdoors

    This micro-credential aims to introduce primary or secondary school teachers and educators to the wealth of opportunities for incorporating outdoor learning activities into teaching aspects of the STEM and HASS curriculums at all levels.

    Start date
    8 August 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST

  • Advanced Structural Geology

    This micro-credential aims to provide professional geologists with the opportunity to build upon their existing knowledge and skills in structural geology and to be able to expand their understanding of structural analysis applied to ore deposits.

    Start date
    19 September 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Advanced Structural Geology Field Excursion

    This micro-credential provides professional geologists with an opportunity to build upon their existing knowledge and skills in structural geology on a field excursion focusing on the tectonic and metallogenic evolution of the Kalgoorlie Terrane (WA).

    Start date
    24 September 2022
    Cost
    $1,850 inc. GST

  • Geophysical Exploration: Basic Principles and Magnetics

    This micro-credential focuses on gravity and magnetic methods as the two most commonly used geophysical methods in mineral exploration. As mineral exploration increasingly seeks deep targets under thick cover, geophysics is expected to play a greater role in exploration.

    Start date
    31 October 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST

  • Geophysical Exploration: Gravity, Radiometric, Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods

    This micro-credential focuses on key concepts of a diverse set of geophysical methods as applied to mineral system-based exploration.

    Start date
    7 November 2022
    Cost
    $990 inc. GST
Psychology

  • rTMS Training course - practical application

    In this microcredential you will receive hands on training on state of the art rTMS devices with assisted neuronavigation technology.

    Start date
    5 September 2022
    Cost
    $770 inc. GST

  • rTMS training course - theory component

    This micro-credential aims to teach the neuroscientific theory behind repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatments, including a background on the neuroscience, biophysical principles and technological advances.

    Start date
    5 September 2022
    Cost
    On campus mode $550 inc GST
    Online only mode $495 inc GST

  • Autism: Contemporary diagnostic frameworks

    This unit will provide students with knowledge of key diagnostic concepts and their application to autism assessment; contemporary autism diagnostic frameworks and criteria; and changes in autism assessment approaches over time.

    Start date
    1 October 2022
    Cost
    $330 inc GST

  • Principles of Best Practice in Autism Assessment and Diagnosis

    This micro-credential will provide students with knowledge and understanding of Australian and international best practice approaches to diagnostic assessment for autism.

    Start date
    1 October 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc GST
Research
  • Introduction to Classical Test and Rasch Measurement Theories 

    In this course you will gain an introduction to the historical development of test theory and how modern theory has superseded traditional theory in many applications, especially in large-scale assessments.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $2,650 inc. GST

  • Advanced Course in Rasch Measurement Theory

    In this course you will conduct analyses of real and simulated data sets using new features available in RUMM2030 and one assignment where you have the option of analysing your own data.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $2,650 inc. GST

  • Data Analysis with R for Compositional Data

    In this course you will learn to identify and analyse compositional data, which are usually multivariate, using the relevant packages available in the R/RStudio environment.

    Start date
    7 November 2022
    Cost
    $660 inc. GST

  • Research Skills Fundamentals

    This unit provides research skills training to equip students with the fundamentals to conduct research. Through a range of feature talks focusing on global issues, students are exposed to the theory and practice of research across different disciplines. 

    Start date
    Not available in 2022
    Cost
    $495 inc. GST
Transferrable skills

  • Professional Writing and Communication

    Professional Writing and Communication provides interactive instruction and practice in professional workplace communication. Through workshops and assessments, you'll develop skills in report writing, the organisation of logical arguments, research and compositional strategies, media literacy, the use of web-based resources and forms of oral communication.

    Start date
    19 July 2022
    Cost
    $440 inc. GST
  • Introduction to Classical Test and Rasch Measurement Theories 

    In this course you will gain an introduction to the historical development of test theory and how modern theory has superseded traditional theory in many applications, especially in large-scale assessments.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $2,650 inc. GST

  • Advanced Course in Rasch Measurement Theory

    In this course you will conduct analyses of real and simulated data sets using new features available in RUMM2030 and one assignment where you have the option of analysing your own data.

    Start date
    25 July 2022
    Cost
    $2,650 inc. GST
  • Teaching Historical Fiction 

    The micro-credential provides interactive instruction and collaborative opportunities to explore historical fiction in English education.

    Start date
    Online 28 July 2022
    On-campus 16 January 2023
    Cost
    $440 inc. GST

Frequently asked questions

What are micro-credentials?

Micro-credentials are short courses. Successfully completing a micro-credential showcases mastery of specific skills, knowledge and/or experience in a given subject area or capability. Designed to meet students’ flexibility requirements, micro-credentials focus on skills that are in high demand by employers and industry, and provide the opportunity for you to update, upskill or reskill in specific areas. UWA Plus micro-credentials are delivered by UWA or by an external provider via an agreement with UWA.

Are micro-credentials right for me?

If you’re interested in upskilling in a specific area with the option of gaining university credit, micro-credentials may be right for you. Check the specific micro-credential listing for details.

How is a micro-credential different from other types of study?

Micro-credentials are short, specific courses designed to be stackable. They give you the flexibility to pick and choose what works for you, so you can complete a one-off micro-credential or stack multiple micro-credentials to convert to academic credit towards an undergraduate or postgraduate course.

What are ‘stackable’ micro-credentials?

Micro-credentials are ‘stackable’ because you can combine multiple micro-credentials that may be converted to academic credit towards an undergraduate or postgraduate course.

Why are micro-credentials valuable?

Successfully completing a micro-credential showcases mastery of specific skills or knowledge. Micro-credentials contribute to your skillset and employability, and create pathways for continued learning.

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