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Examine the social contexts that influence community leadership and resilience.

You'll start by considering the contested nature of concepts like community, community resilience, community leadership and related social theories. You will also analyse the socio-cultural, political, economic and environmental factors influencing the lived experience of community leadership and resilience – including the impacts of socially inequitable patterning of leadership and resilience among communities, for example by social class, gender and cultural background. In this subject you'll also get the opportunity to investigate institutional, community-led and partnership-based initiatives to foster community leadership and resilience.

Available start dates

19 October 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$1200

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Ensuring genuine inclusion of diverse and disadvantaged sections of communities in decision-making and governance continues to be a key community engagement challenge. In this subject you;ll focus on inclusive community engagement approaches that aim to meet this challenge. Moreover, you'll explore how inadequate progress on social and ecological imperatives and declining trust in social institutions has led to a proliferation of regulatory and legislative obligations around community engagement and to a 'participatory turn' in theory and practice.

Available start dates

29 June 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Discover how to produce basic media content, including still images, video, and audio, for the purposes of engaging with the community and promoting events and initiatives. You'll gain on-camera instruction and practice and get an introduction to key media production equipment and software. This subject gives you the best of both worlds – online study and a practice-based workshop.

Available start dates

24 August 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Examine what community leadership and resilience mean in the context of community development theory and practice, with a particular focus on models that attend to the power inequalities shaping leadership and resilience among communities.

You'll also study practices that foster community leadership, resilience and power for social action and change – such as organising, activism, resistance, social movements and participatory democracy and economies – alongside the theory and practice implications of challenging the power inequalities that undermine inclusive community leadership and resilience.

Available start dates

24 August 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$1200

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Available start dates

19 October 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Gain an introduction to the concept of resilience. Explore how resilience is different to recovery, and why there are multiple and sometimes unexpected pathways to resilience. You'll learn about models of stress, trauma and coping, and factors that predict resilience.

The subject also highlights the importance of coping and positively adapting to stressful life experiences. You'll explore the three features from scientific resilience discourse: recovery, sustainability and growth..

Available start dates

August 24 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Learn about the fundamental theory and practice of establishing and maintaining effective and valuable relationships with media partners. Discover how to situate media relationship building within the existing strategic goals of your organisation. You'll also develop targeted content for media agencies.

Available start dates

29 June 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Develop your understanding of external communication strategies. You'll examine common forms of corporate public communication, including websites, social media, press releases and media announcements with a view to developing basic skills in each of these areas and executing external communication strategies to support wider strategic objectives.

Available start dates

19 October 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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In this subject we examine three factors that assist us to understand human behaviour at work. In particular, we look at the way in which individual level factors (e.g. personality and motivation), team level factors (e.g. leadership and group dynamics) and organisational differences (e.g. structure and culture) combine to explain behaviour.

Behaviour at work plays a critical role in explaining organisational outcomes such as productivity and absenteeism.

Available start dates

2021  dates to be confirmed

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Explore the art of relationship building and its use to gain competitive advantage through initiating, developing, maintaining and terminating a range of relationships in professional practice contexts.

Available start dates

2021  dates to be confirmed

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Discover the role of project management in the contemporary business environment. You'll examine the key principles of designing, implementing and evaluating projects through the project lifecycle, as well as examine the role of various stakeholders in the process.

Available start dates

2021  dates to be confirmed

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$1200

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In this subject, you'll develop skills that enable you to analyse and interpret accounting reports and communicate the results to relevant stakeholders. You'll focus on the use of accounting information and learn various tools and techniques to enable you to make effective business decisions.

Available start dates

24 August 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Gain an introduction to the integrated approach to management of the change process, including the determination of strategic change requirements and opportunities. You'll have the opportunity to develop, implement and evaluate various change management strategies.

Available start dates

29 June 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Behaviour at work plays a critical role in explaining organisational outcomes, such as productivity and absenteeism. In this subject, you'll examine three factors that help us to understand human behaviour at work: individual factors (e.g. personality and motivation), team factors (e.g. leadership and group dynamics) and organisational differences (e.g. structure and culture).

Available start dates

29 June 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Investigate the strategic nature of managing people who report directly to frontline managers. You'll cover work allocation, methods to review performance, rewarding excellence and providing constructive feedback where improvement is identified. In the subject you'll also explore the link between performance management and development to ensure key result areas, performance indicators and standards are set and adhered to in a way that supports a positive organisational culture.

Available start date

19 October 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Investigate the strategic planning function within an organisation, including consideration of an organisation's internal resources as well as the external factors that impact upon strategic decision-making. You'll also examine the formulation, implementation and selection of strategic alternatives.

Available start date

19 October 2020

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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