Program Overview
The Graduate Diploma in Planning is a one-year full-time or two-year part-time program that equips professionals with a comprehensive understanding of planning issues, negotiation skills, and creative thinking. It emphasizes sustainability, property development, and evidence-based forecasting, preparing graduates for careers in public sector planning, private consulting, and property development. The program's multidisciplinary approach spans planning, urban design, property, architecture, economics, and urban ecology.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Graduate Diploma in Planning is a one-year full-time or two-year part-time course that provides a new career path for design, planning, and property professionals. It equips graduates with a broad understanding of planning issues alongside the negotiation skills and creative thinking required to resolve them. The program aims to engage students with policy, environmental, and demographic frameworks to understand how planning decisions shape the urban environment over the long term. This engagement is multidisciplinary, spanning planning, urban design, property, architecture/landscape architecture, economics, spatial analysis, law, and urban ecology. The degree has both a strong sustainability focus and an emphasis on the property development cycle. Students learn about land markets and feasibility studies and acquire the technical skills to perform complex and evidence-based forecasting. They also learn how to conduct large-scale structure planning and design master planned developments for communities.
Outline:
The Graduate Diploma in Planning comprises eight 6-credit-point subjects, totaling 48 credit points of study.
First Year
- Sustainable Urban Development
- Urban Design
- Property Development Process
- Planning and Environmental Law
Second Year
- Urban Economics and Infrastructure Planning
- Spatial Analysis in Planning and Property
- Group Project B: Greenfields Development
Careers:
Graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Planning can pursue careers in the public sector, including working for state and local government, and in private consulting and property development firms. There are also careers in strategic planning on major developments and projects, master planning with financial analysis, and the increasingly important area of sub-regional planning.
