RMIT University in Victoria, Australia, is to launch a new online Master Of Wellness Program in June 2008.

The programme will include a ‘nested’ Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma and will offer post-graduate pathways for people wishing to develop a wide range of wellness skills.

Topics will include health enhancement, complementary medicine and business practices. To enter at Graduate Certificate level, students are required to have a Bachelor Degree or equivalent, or have an Advanced Diploma and three years of industry experience.

The programme will be open to international students and can be taken fully online, as it is only some elective modules that require attendance at face-to-face workshops.

Professor Marc Cohen, chief designer of the new programme, said: “This programme has been designed to cater for a wide range of interests with graduates gaining personal wellness skills as well as a professional qualification.”

Over the next two years, RMIT plans to add additional units on yoga teaching, detoxification, energy medicine and design.