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This subject introduces students to the range of community processes and their implications for community resilience. It investigates and evaluates ways in which innovative and inclusive approaches to supporting and building community resilience can be implemented, and considers implications for students professional practice.

Available start dates

18 October 2021

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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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

28 June 2021

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$1200

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This subject introduces students to the concept of community disaster recovery and its focus within the emergency management context.

It will explore the principles of community disaster recovery and examine how contemporary practice in community disaster recovery is evolving. The use of electronic technologies for communication is becoming more widely used within emergency management practice, and this subject provides students with the opportunity to use digital technologies to analyse and report on innovative contemporary community disaster recovery practice.

Available start dates

23 August 2021

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

3 May 2021

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

3 May 2021

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

23 August 2021

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$1200

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This subject develops students' ability to plan and stage an event, emphasising the strategic value of events and the importance of planning at every stage. This subject provides students with sound knowledge of event management processes and a broad range of event-related skills. This subject is designed with adaptable delivery models, which may include combinations of condensed online sessions and one-off workshops.

Available start dates

18 October 2021

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

8 March 2021

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

28 June 2021

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

18 October 2021

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

28 June 2021

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

23 August 2021

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

28 June 2021

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

3 May 2021

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

23 August 2021

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

3 May 2021

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Social enterprises are hybrid organizations established for a social purpose, using a for-profit business model to generate the financial resources needed to support their social missions (Miles et al., 2014: 549). Examples of social enterprises include a church bookstore where the proceeds are used to fund community engagement or Zambrero’s Plate- 4-Plate meal donation program.

This subject introduces social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, along with the associated tools and processes for developing, implementing and funding solutions to real community problems. It takes a very practical and applied approach, focusing in particular on how leaders can analyse and shape the community’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to better support the needs of social enterprises developing solutions for community problems. This subject is designed to develop the students capacity to develop, lead, and support social entrepreneurs and enterprises.

Available start date

8 March 2021

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

18 October 2021

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

23 August 2021

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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It is difficult in today’s cynical and complex world for leaders to gain trust from their stakeholders both internal and external.

This subject takes a practical and applied look at transformative leadership. Transformative leadership takes a long-term, values and ethically based view of leadership that focuses on shared value for stakeholders and the broader society. This subject is an opportunity for students to explore how their leadership style may contribute to the development of community resilience. Students will examine leadership styles through a variety of conceptual lenses - transformational leadership, servant leadership charismatic leadership, principle-centred leadership, level 5 leadership and covenantal leadership - all of which contribute to transformative leadership. The subject is designed to assist students in evaluating and make recommendations for their own leadership style and the styles exhibited in their organisations.

Available start dates

23 August 2021

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Available start dates

28 June 2021

Duration

8 weeks

Cost

$600

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Bernie Madoff. Enron. Barings Bank. WorldCom. HIH Insurance. The list of large-scale corporate financial scandals is a long one. And they keep happening. At their centre they often have one or more people who have taken excessive risks – and brought down their company. Why does this happen? And can we prevent it? This subject looks at how a capitalist system that values profits above all else and human psychology can interact to produce psychopathy in people who are, supposedly, at the pinnacle of the corporate world. What separates ‘titans of industry’ from criminal speculators? And what checks and balances do we need? You’ll explore these questions and start to consider new approaches to multi-billion-dollar business risk-taking.

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The dark web has lots of positives. It can provide anonymity for whistle-blowers and protection for those challenging murderous regimes. But it is also, undoubtedly, a platform that enables serious crime. Combine a lack of traceability with the decentred financials of cryptocurrencies, and you have a very tricky problem for law enforcement.

In this subject, you’ll analyse the technological, social and criminal aspects of the dark web, and you’ll discuss issues of access, scale, navigation and mitigation. Crime prevention hasn’t yet got a concerted grip on how to seriously disrupt illegal activity on the dark web – this subject is all about starting to think about new ways to tackle it.

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Money laundering – the illegal concealment of ‘dirty’ or criminally derived money through supposedly legal practices – is a global problem. It reduces government revenues and it funds further criminal activity. It is also, often, glamourised in popular culture, its exponents heralded as outlaws gaming the system. After all, so the theory goes, if we could get away without paying taxes, wouldn’t we all do it? This subject explores the intersection of crime and culture. You’ll look at money laundering cases from various jurisdictions and explore not only the technical aspects of the crimes – and how they might be prevented – but also their representations in the media. Combine social, political, and criminological analyses to fully understand contemporary money laundering.