Designed with mature students in mind, Professional Studies is for you if you are wanting to study a wide range of topics relevant to your life experiences. Taught by the University's Lifelong Learning Centre (LLC), you'll gain a qualification grounded in the skills that employers value in professional roles today.

This unique and interdisciplinary course is particularly relevant if you can bring prior work and life experience to your studies. There'll be opportunities for you to gain further experience, learning from and undertaking research for local organisations and employers, as well as investigating areas of your own interest.

The course explores key contemporary issues relevant to a wide range of professional roles such as globalisation, diversity, health, creativity, leadership and technology. It also offers a set of modules to help develop your own professional identity, while learning about the world of work. You'll gain the exciting opportunity to personalise your degree based on your own experience, skills and interests by choosing a third of your degree from our specialised pathways, or from a wide range of discovery modules.

The course content is developed to help you further your adaptability and effectiveness in the fast-changing world of work. It encompasses professional and project strands which focus on skills relevant to a wide range of careers.