Diversity at Work: Access, Equity and Policy
Single subject — no qualification is awarded on completion. Credits toward the qualifications listed below.
This subject is FEE-HELP eligible, so eligible students can defer the $2,174 fee as a government loan and pay nothing upfront.
Fees and funding are indicative only. Confirm your eligibility and final costs with the provider.
About this subject
In this summer subject, you will work to assess and analyse equity and diversity policies in your place of work or study, to identify where policy does not reflect practice, and to develop a set of recommendations for how to achieve and enact equitable and inclusive policy. We explore the contradictory processes through which social policy is developed along the axes and intersections of difference based on class, gender, sexuality, race, disability, and age. We consider the changing context of public policy, work, and new political struggles in both an international and national climate of economic, political, cultural, and environmental instability. This subject gives you the ability to critically and creatively analyse existing structures and systems, including settler colonialism and the cisheteropatriarchy, and to identify where and how institutions can be held to account based on their existing diversity and inclusion policies. It also gives students a practice-based experience of working collaboratively to enact positive change. This subject is delivered over a five-week period, running from Weeks 3 to 7 in Term 1 and Weeks 45 to 49 in Term 6 of 2026. Topics include: power dynamics in institutions, the diversity of social identities, how to make changes in the workplace, and what genuine inclusion means. This is a level 3 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.
Diversity at Work: Access, Equity and Policy is a standalone subject at La Trobe University in VIC. Completing it does not award a qualification. Credit may apply toward the qualifications listed on this page.
No qualification credit mapping has been indexed for this subject yet. The provider may still grant credit toward a related award — confirm with La Trobe University before enrolling.
La Trobe University is the awarding provider. Recorded study modes are Online. Typical duration is listed as 6 weeks. The subject is listed at 25 credit points. Eligible students may defer fees through FEE-HELP.
Details on this page are compiled from the provider's published subject information and government registers. Fees, intakes and credit rules can change — confirm current details with La Trobe University before enrolling.
Listing facts
- Type
- Single subject
- National code
- LTU-GSD3DAW
- Field of education
- Information technology
- Provider
- La Trobe University
- Credit points
- 25
- Study mode
- Online
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Qualifications listed
- 0
- FEE-HELP
- Eligible
Prerequisites
Prior study required