Graduate Certificate of Pacific Development
The Australian National University (ANU)
Type of institution: University/Higher Education Institution
Level: Postgraduate
CRICOS: 00120C
The Pacific region faces a number of challenging development and policy issues whilst also being at the heart of many global debates such as climate change and security. This graduate certificate provides a condensed pathway to deeper research led learning on the Pacific region for policymakers, program designers, researchers and analysts working on and in the Pacific region. This flexible program offers the foundations to understand the complexities of development in the Pacific, while covering the depth and breadth of the current development, societal and political issues affecting the Pacific region. Students can choose from courses with traditional and intensive delivery methods, featuring assessment methods which foster critical awareness through an emphasis on building an evidence base for policy work.
Structure
The Graduate Certificate of Pacific Development requires completion of 24 units
Subjects
- PASI8004 Human security and well being in the Pacific region
- PASI8005 The Politics of Aid and Development in the Pacific
- PASI8010 Development Programs in Pacific Contexts: (Re)design and (re)evaluation
- ANTH8009 Development in Practice
- ANTH8038 Gender & Development: Critical Issues in Policy & Practice
- CHMD8006 Global Health and Development
- DIPL8010 Harnessing Diplomacy for International Development
- EMDV8082 Food Wars: Food Security and Agricultural Policy
- EMDV8124 Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
- POGO8004 Poverty Reduction
- POGO8044 Global Social Policy
- POGO8072 Development Theories and Themes
- POGO8076 Corruption and Anti corruption
- POGO8230 Gender Analysis in Public Policy (3 units)
- REGN8056 Complexity, Catastrophe and Resilience (3 units)
- ANTH8047 Land Rights and Resource Development
- ASIA8048 Disasters and Epidemics in Asia and the Pacific
- DIPL8013 Pacific Diplomacy
- INTR8043 Changing Geopolitics and International Relations in the Pacific
- LAWS8006 Law and Development in the Contemporary South Pacific
- PASI6001 Pacific Studies in a Globalizing World
- PASI6002 Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- PASI8009 Political Economy of Elections in Melanesia
- PASI8011 Critical Approaches to Pacific and Inclusive Research Methodologies
- PASI8301 How Papua New Guinea Works (3 units)
- PASI8302 Bougainville in Transition (3 units)
- PASI8305 Pacific Feminisms (3 units)
- PASI8312 Special Topics in Pacific Development (3 units)
Standard entry requirements
- Bachelor or international equivalent with GPA 4/7
- Graduate Diploma or international equivalent with a GPA 4/7
- Graduate Certificate or international equivalent with a GPA 4/7
- 24 units of courses in a postgraduate program a GPA of 4/7
- Graduate Records Examination (GRE) General test, completed no more than 5 years before the time of application, with a minimum score of 155 for Verbal Reasoning, 155 for Quantitative Reasoning and 4.0 in Analytical Writing and a minimum of 3 years full time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1 in a field related to the program
- A minimum 5 years full time equivalent work experience at ANZSCO Skill Level 1 in a field related to the program
Study information
| Campus | Fees | Mid year intake | Attendance |
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| Canberra | International: $25,410 | No |
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