The Graduate Diploma in Built Environments is generic and allows students to create an individual course of study by selecting subjects, with the approval of the Course Coordinator, from across the disciplines of the Melbourne School of Design. The flexibility this course offers is of great benefit to students who: do not wish to specialise in one particular area; are not yet certain where their interests and career aspirations lie; or, possess an existing qualification in the disciplines represented in the MSD and wish to enhance their qualifications through advanced studies in areas of their choice. Course structure The course is available as 1-year full-time, or 2 years part-time. All students must complete 100 points of undergraduate or graduate level subjects. The course draws on undergraduate subjects (usually in a major sequence of study) to produce a coherent program appropriate for graduates wishing to progress to higher level study. A Graduate Diploma should not consist entirely of lower-level undergraduate subjects. In most cases, students will choose a combination of undergraduate and some fourth-year level graduate subjects. Students in this program may be eligible to undertake final subject assessment if they: are in the final semester of their enrolment (not the last 50 points of the course); and fail a single subject worth up to 12.5 points with a final result of 40 - 49%.