Graduate Certificate of Global Development

Program Overview

This program offers a comprehensive exploration of global development, with a focus on disaster resilience, public health, sustainable development planning, indigenous futures, and economics, governance, and social change. Students can tailor their studies by selecting elective subjects from various disciplines, preparing them for careers in development-related fields.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Core Subjects
• Development in Practice
• Critical Issues in Global Development
• Elective Subjects (Select 6 credit points)

Disaster Resilience, Conservation and Natural Resource Management

• Conservation Biology
• Population and Community Ecology
• Technological Applications in Ecology
• Restoration Ecology
• Wildlife Ecology and Management
• Marine Conservation Biology
• Economics and Sustainable Resource Management
• Human Dimensions of Nature, Environment and Conservation
• International Environmental Policy and Governance
• Principles and Practices of Protected Area Management
• Disasters, Communities and Planning
• Leadership in Disaster Management
• Natural Resource Management

Public Health

• Tropical Public Health
• Environmental Health
• Public Health in Humanitarian Emergencies
• Global Health and Development
• Reproductive Health in Developing Countries
• Public Health Management, Leadership, Planning and Policy
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Disaster Health Management
• Public Health Economics

Sustainable Development Planning and Policy

• Climate Change and Biodiversity
• Environmental and Regional Planning
• Environmental Economics
• Sustainability in Practice
• Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
• Urban Geography and Design
• Research Methods for Global Development
• Economics for a Sustainable World
• Policy Analysis and Management
• Sustainable Tourism Management
• Social Policy Analysis

Indigenous Futures

• Indigenous Australians
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People as Colonial Subjects
• Comparative Indigenous Studies
• Navigating the Cultural Interface

Economics, Governance and Social Change

• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Econometrics and Big Data Analysis
• Economic Growth and Sustainable Development
• Macroeconomic Policy
• Economics of Social Policy
• Economics and Sustainable Resource Management
• Regional Environmental History
• Corporate Responsibility and Governance
• International Political Economy
• Political Communication; Ecology and Environmentalism

Development Leadership and Management

• Design Thinking Principles
• Career Planning
• Leadership Futures
• State Society and Governance
• Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution
• Conflict Analysis
• Conflict Resolution Processes
• Ethical Decision Making and Reflective Practice
• People in Organisations
• Cross-Cultural Leadership
• Negotiation
• Facilitative Mediation Practice
• Sustainable Conflict Management