A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 160 credit points as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless indicated.
Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Core (4 units) | 40cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 40 credit points as per list of units identified below: DEM511 Emergency and Disaster Management in Context DEM512 Interdisciplinary Aspects of Emergency and Disaster Management DEM513 Leadership in Emergency and Disaster Management DEM514 Cultural, Social and Psychological Aspects of Emergency and Disaster Management |
Specialist Electives (5-6 units) | 60cp | Specialist Elective units totalling 60 credit points. Students are required to complete 20 credit points of Research Methodology units plus 40 credit points from one or more of the available specialisations identified below.
Select 20 credit points from the list below:
Research Methodology EMG505 Research Methodologies in Education (unit title change 2022) IAS501 Research Methods (20cp) IAS521 Principles of Indigenous Research IAS522 Indigenous Research Methodologies MPP503 Realist Research and Evaluation (next offered 2025) PHM526 Research Design PHM527 Research Ethics and Impact PHM552 Epidemiology PHM553 Biostatistics PHM588 Qualitative Research (new title 2021)
PLUS
Select 40 credit points from one or more of the specialisation groups listed below:
Humanitarian Aid and Development HAD100 Introduction to Disasters, Humanitarian Aid and Development HAD250 Humanitarian Needs Assessment HCS261 Fundamentals of Humanitarian Practice DEM300 Community-Based Risk Management DEM516 Reflective Case Study: Humanitarian, Emergency and Disaster Management (replaces DEM615) (not available from Semester 2 2023)
Indigenous Knowledges IAS530 Neo-colonialism, Advocacy and the Critique of Development IAS531 Indigenous Policy Agendas in Federal and State Politics IAS532 Indigenous Knowledges, Property Rights and Economic Participation IAS533 Indigenous Knowledges and Epistemologies IAS534 Partnerships and Engagement in Indigenous Land and Sea Management IAS539 Intercultural Mediation IAS547 Indigenous Knowledges and Wellbeing IAS548 Healthy Country, Healthy People
Health PHM523 Health Promotion PHM536 Health Systems, Planning and Evaluation PHM554 Public Health Economics and Decision Making PHM567 Public Health PHM570 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases PHM592 Global Health PHM593 Tropical Child and Adolescent Health SWK316 Building Safe Communities SWK317 Dynamics of Loss and Grief
Engineering and Information Technology ENG519 Sustainability ENG573 Communication Systems PRT551 Project Management Risk and Reliability PRT571 Asset Security and Risk Management
Management BUS508 Business Analytics (replaces BUS501 from 2022) ENT501 Sustainable Entrepreneurship (replaces BUS502 from 2022) MAN516 Resilience Management and Leadership (replaces COM501 from 2022) ECO505 Economics of Sustainability (replaces ECO504 from 2022) HRM503 International Human Resource Management (final offering in S2 2022) BUS506 Global Megatrends (replaces MAN506 from 2022) BUS504 Sustainable Enterprise (replaces MAN508 from 2022) MAN514 Management for the Executive (replaces MAN509 from 2022) MAN515 Operations Management (final offering 2021 - no replacement)
Environment ENV501 Tropical Invaders and Biosecurity ENV502 Remote Sensing ENV506 Environmental Monitoring and Modelling ENV507 Fire Ecology and Management in Northern Australia ENV508 Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Thinking ENV513 Environmental Planning and Policy ENV516 Ecosystem Function: Field Studies in North Australia ENV517 Natural Resources and Indigenous Livelihoods ENV518 Applied Spatial Analysis for Real-World Problems (title changed 2023) ENV520 Wildlife Management ENV521 Community Engagement for Bio-Security and Natural Resource Management
Public Policy HGE501 Topics in Human Geography: a Remote Perspective MPP501 Theoretical Approaches to Public Policy in Northern Contexts MPP502 Evidence-Based Policy Development in Northern and Indigenous Contexts (not offered 2024) MPP505 Policy and Ethnography
Social Work SWK521 Analysing Social Work Foundations (compulsory intensive) SWK522 Co-creating Social Justice in Practice (compulsory intensive) (not offered 2024) SWK523 Social Work Theory for Advanced Professional Practice (compulsory intensive) SWK524 Communities, Social Change and Development SWK525 Loss, Grief and Mental Health SWK526 Leadership in Social Policy SWK527 Critical Partnerships for Practice: Individuals, Groups and Families (no longer available from 2024) |
Research (1-2 units) | 40cp | Research units totalling 40 credit points as listed below:.
DEM820 Research Project (20 cp) DEM821 Research Project (20 cp) |
General Electives (2 units) | 20cp | Units totalling 20 credit points may be selected from postgraduate units (at 500 level or above) offered by the University. Students may select units from any of the approved specialisations (as above) as electives or by cross institutional enrolment approved by the Course Coordinator. |
| 160cp | Total Credit Points |
Course Rules (unless otherwise indicated in the above course structure)