Graduate Certificate of Emergency and Disaster Management

Based in the capital of Australia's Northern Territory, at the centre of the 'Top End' and Australia's gateway to Indonesia and Southeast Asia, this highly unique postgraduate program focuses on a geographic region that is unarguably the most prone to, and affected by various types of disasters.

As an emergency and disaster management specialist, you will have the skills and ability to apply your knowledge and experience appropriately, collaboratively and productively in this vulnerable region and other parts of the world.

You will have the essential knowledge and skills required to manage all phases of the disaster management cycle.

You will also confidently apply your academic studies to practical responses and report on your professional experience into the academic sphere of this rapidly evolving sector.

This in-depth course promotes its uniqueness in three areas:

its focus on Asia-Pacific Region its informed practice and research its multi-sectoral approach.

Along with the necessary technical skills and experience, you will also develop your managerial and leadership skills to either assist in your current career or help with new career pathways.

This course is a pathway for advanced studies and is supported by nationally and internationally respected industry partners.

The Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate in Emergency and Disaster Management are entry and exit pathways for the master's degree course.

Higher Education Relief Package Charles Darwin University is offering this Graduate Certificate as part of the suite of university short courses subsidised by the Commonwealth Government.

The discounted fees only apply to new student course enrolments in Semester 2, 2020.

To be eligible you must study full time and complete all 4 units by December 2020.

Future enrolments (2021) will be charged at the standard rate, without a discount.

Core Units(2 units) - 20

Compulsory Core units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.

DEM511 Emergency and Disaster Management in Context DEM512 Interdisciplinary Aspects of Emergency and Disaster Management

Specialist Elective(2 units) - 20

Unit totalling 20 credit points selected from the list of available units detailed below.

Health PHM592 Global Health PHM593 Tropical Child and Adolescent Health (unit title change 2020) Engineering ENG462 Water Resources Engineering ^(manual enrolment required) ENG473 Communication Systems (new title 2016) ^(manual enrolment required) ^ students completing a Graduate Certificate/Diploma who wish to undertake a level 4 (400 level) unit must do so via manual enrolment. See Special Enrolment, accessed via the eForms tile through the CDU Portal. Management ECO504 Business Economics (replaces ECO501 Economics for Management from 2019 (recoded from PRBE001 2016)) BUS501 Decision Making (replaces ECO502 Decision Making from 2018 (recoded from PRBE002 2016)) IBM501 International Business (recoded from PRBM009 2016) (not offered in 2019) MAN501 Cross Cultural Management (not offered in 2019) (recoded from PRBM016 2016) HRM503 International Human Resource Management (replaces MAN504 Human Resource Management from 2018 (recoded from PRBM021 2016)) MAN506 Organisational Behaviour (recoded from PRBM022 2016) MAN508 Organisational Strategy and Leadership (recoded from PRBM030 2016) MAN515 Operations Management (recoded from PRBM034 2016)

Environment ENV502 Remote Sensing ENV506 Environmental Monitoring and Modelling ENV507 Fire Ecology and Management ENV508 Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Thinking (new title 2018) ENV511 Spatial Methods for Impact Analysis ENV513 Environmental Planning and Policy ENV516 Ecosystem Function: Field Studies in North Australia (recoded from ENV504 2016) ENV518 Analysing and Synthesising Spatial Data (new title 2018) ENV521 Community Engagement for Bio-Security and Natural Resource Management (recoded from ENV401 2016)

Indigenous Knowledges ATI501 Neocolonialism, Advocacy and the Critique of Development (recoded from ATI410 2016) (replaced by IAS530 2020) ATI502 Indigenous Policy Agendas in Federal and State Politics (recoded from ATI420 2016) (replaced by IAS531 2020) ATI503 Indigenous Knowledges, Property Rights and Economic Participation (recoded from ATI430 2016) (replaced by IAS532 2020) ATI504 Indigenous Knowledges and Epistemologies (recoded from ATI440 2016) (recoded to IAS533 2020)

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Total Credit Points

Successful completion of a recognised bachelor degree or higher in a relevant field. Consideration will be given to applicants who have a minimum diploma or above and at least five years relevant professional experience. Applicants must provide further documentation detailing their employment experience (i.e. work experience certificate from an employer/s) and outlining their roles and achievements in the form of a curriculum vitae and a statement of purpose. The statement of purpose should address why you would like to be admitted into the course, career goals and aspirations and benefits the course will provide you.