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Introduction to Community services & care courses
Study a course that skills you up to make a difference. Get ready to engage in individual and community health and rights.
Serve and protect the vulnerable. Study child health, disaster and famine management, nutrition and chronic diseases. Prescribe awareness of the factors affecting quality of life and debate key features of Australia’s policies and services.
You’ll investigate work and leisure, human rights or social services. Answer the call to help. Learn online and look out for the wellbeing of the individual, families and communities.
Community services & care degrees
Undergraduate UNE-CSV-DEG
Postgraduate GRF-AUS-GCE
Undergraduate ECU-COU-DEG
Undergraduate TUA-CCS-DIP
Postgraduate CSU-SOC-MAS
Undergraduate TAS-DMT-DEG
Available majors
- Ageing Studies and Services Major
Postgraduate FLI-DLA-MAS
Community services & care subjects
Undergraduate USA-WELF2026
Undergraduate TAS-ZAC118
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Undergraduate UNE-HLTH104
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Postgraduate CUR-MTEC507
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Undergraduate MUR-COD201
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Undergraduate MAQ-SOCX3040
Human Services in the 21st Century: Care, Gender and Institutions
Related degrees
Undergraduate USA-SOCU2018
(Dis)abling Societies: The Sociologies of Ageing and Disability
How to become a community services and care professional
Help yourself to a career that helps others.
Study online and boost your career opportunities in a healthy, growing and diverse employment sector.
Practice and specialise in a range of careers including health, welfare, and management in the public and private sector. Join the not-for-profit sector or step into a government department. Serve your community as a counsellor, social worker or child carer or an indigenous health worker.
Career guides
Accreditation
Improve your career prospects and get accreditation from some of Australia’s peak, reputable organisations.
Nutrition Society of Australia (NSA)
With members as diverse of nutritionists, veterinarians, food scientists and medical practitioners, the NSA is committed to supporting the science of nutrition on the national stage.
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Student stories and study advice
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