A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 80 credit points (cp) as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless otherwise indicated.
Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Core Units (4 units) | 40cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 40 credit points as detailed 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 Elective (3-4 units) | 40cp | Specialist elective units totalling 40 credit points. Students are required to complete 20 credit points of Research Methodology units plus 20 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 (new title 2022) IAS501 Research Methods 1 (20cp) IAS521 Principles of Research in Indigenous Contexts IAS522 Indigenous Research Methodologies MPP503 Realist Research and Evaluation PHM526 Research Design PHM527 Research, Ethics and Impact PHM552 Epidemiology PHM553 Biostatistics PHM588 Qualitative Research Select 20 credit points from one or more of the specialisation groups listed below: Humanitarian Aid and Development DEM516 Reflective Case Study: Humanitarian, Emergency and Disaster Management (not available from Semester 2 2023) Indigenous Knowledges IAS530 Neo-colonialism, Advocacy and the Critique of Development (replaced ATI501 2020) IAS531 Indigenous Policy Agendas in Federal and State Politics (replaced ATI502 2020) IAS532 Indigenous Knowledges, Property Rights and Economic Participation (replaced ATI503 2020) IAS533 Indigenous Knowledges and Epistemologies (replaced ATI504 2020) 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 Engineering and Information Technology ENG519 Sustainability ENG573 Communications Systems PRT551 Project Management Risk and Reliability PRT571 Asset Security and Risk Management ENG462 Water Resources Engineering (no longer available from 2022) ENG473 Communication Systems (no longer available from 2022) Management BUS504 Sustainable Enterprise (replaced MAN508 2022) BUS506 Global Megatrends (replaced MAN506 2022) BUS508 Business Analytics (replaced BUS501 2022) ECO505 Economics of Sustainability (replaced ECO504 2022) ENT501 Sustainable Entrepreneurship MAN514 Management for the Executive MAN516 Resilience Management and Leadership HRM503 International Human Resource Management (no longer available from 2022) IBM501 International Business (no longer available from 2020) MAN501 Cross Cultural Management (no longer available from 2020) MAN515 Operations Management (no longer available from 2022) Environment ENV501 Tropical Invaders and Biosecurity ENV502 Remote Sensing ENV506 Environmental Monitoring and Modelling ENV507 Fire Ecology and Management 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 (not offered 2024) ENV518 Applied Spatial Analysis for Real-World Problems (title changed 2023) ENV520 Wildlife Management ENV521 Community Engagement for Biosecurity and Natural Resource Management ENV511 Real-World Statistics and Data Reasoning (no longer available from 2022) 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 Ethnography and Policy 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) |
| 80 | Total Credit Points |
Course Rules (unless otherwise indicated in the above course structure)
COURSE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - 2022
From 2022, the course structure has changed as follows:
- Two additional specialisations, Public Policy and Social Work, have been added to Specialist Electives
- Addition of more specialist elective choices
Unit Changes:
The following units are no longer available for enrolment as part of this course. Students who completed these units prior to 2022 may continue to count the units towards Specialist Electives.
Unit Code | Title |
ENG462 | Water Resources Engineering |
ENV511 | Real-World Statistics and Data Reasoning |
IBM501 | International Business |
HRM503 | International Human Resource Management |
MAN501 | Cross Cultural Management |
ENG473 Communication Systems has been replaced by ENG573 Communication Systems. Students that have completed ENG473 should not complete ENG573.
ECO504 Business Economics has been replaced by ECO505 Economics of Sustainability. Students that have completed ECO504 should not complete ECO505.
BUS501 Decision Making has been replaced by BUS508 Business Analytics. Students that have completed BUS501 should not complete BUS508.
MAN506 Organisational Behaviour has been replaced by BUS506 Global Megatrends. Students that have completed MAN506 should not complete BUS506.
MAN508 Organisational Strategy and Leadership has been replaced by BUS504 Sustainable Enterprise. Students that have completed MAN508 should not complete BUS504.
COURSE CHANGES - 2019
Management Sequence
ECO501 has been replaced by ECO504 and is equivalent. Students who have completed ECO501 should not complete ECO504.
COURSE CHANGES - 2018
MAN504 has been replaced by HRM503 and is equivalent. Students who have completed MAN504 should not complete HRM503.
ECO502 has been replaced by BUS501 and is equivalent. Students who have completed ECO502 should not complete BUS501.
ENV508 Applied Geographic Information Systems is now Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Thinking.
ENV518 Advanced Spatial Science is now Analysing and Synthesising Spatial Data.
PHM552 Introduction to Epidemiology is now Epidemiology.
PHM553 Introduction to Biostatistics is now Biostatistics.
Unit Code Changes 2016
Previous Unit Code | New Unit Code (2016) | Unit Title |
ATI410 | ATI501 | Neocolonialism, Advocacy and the Critique of Development |
ATI420 | ATI502 | Indigenous Policy Agendas in Federal and State Politics |
ATI430 | ATI503 | Indigenous Knowledges, Property Rights and Economic Participation |
ATI440 | ATI504 | Indigenous Knowledges and Epistemologies |
ENV401 | ENV521 | Community Engagement for Biosecurity and Natural Resource Management |
ENV504 | ENV516 | Ecosystem Function: Field Studies in North Australia |
PRBE001 | ECO501 | Economics for Managers |
PRBE002 | ECO502 | Decision Making |
PRBM009 | IBM501 | International Business |
PRBM016 | MAN501 | Cross Cultural Management |
PRBM021 | MAN504 | Human Resource Management |
PRBM022 | MAN506 | Organisation Behaviour |
PRBM030 | MAN508 | Organisational Strategy and Leadership |
PRBM034 | MAN515 | Operations Management |