Graduate Certificate of Cyber Law
Deakin University
About
The Graduate Certificate of Cyber Law prepares you for the evolving legal challenges of the digital world.
Develop technical skills in both cyber technology law and IT, and use your dual expertise to protect and defend victims of cybercrime.Want to take your legal career to the next level with a qualification that’s sought-after across all organisations with a digital footprint?
Structure
To complete the Graduate Certificate of Cyber Law, students must attain a total of 4 credit points, consisting of 4 credit points of core units, completion of the compulsory 0-credit point unit, MAI010 Academic Integrity.
Most units (think of units as 'subjects') are equal to 1 credit point.
Entry requirements
Entry requirements
Entry information
Deakin University offers admission to postgraduate courses through a number of Admission categories.
All applicants must meet the minimum English language requirements.
Please note that meeting the minimum admission requirements does not guarantee selection, which is based on merit, likelihood of success and availability of places in the course.
For more information on the Admission Criteria and Selection (Higher Education Courses) Policy visit the Deakin Policy Library
Minimum admission criteria:
- Bachelor degree or higher OR
- Two years relevant work experience OR
- Evidence of academic capability judged to be equivalent
Learning outcomes
Deakin's graduate learning outcomes describe the knowledge and capabilities graduates can demonstrate at the completion of their course. These outcomes mean that regardless of the Deakin course you undertake, you can rest assured your degree will teach you the skills and professional attributes that employers value. They'll set you up to learn and work effectively in the future.
| outcome type | outcome description |
|---|---|
| Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities | Demonstrate an understanding of: <ul> <li>the Australian and international legal system as it applies to the regulation of data and cybercrime</li> <li>IT security policy development and human security management</li> <li>security issues associated with large data sets and the results obtained from analytics on such data</li> </ul> |
| Communication | Communicate in both a legal and IT contexts appropriately and effectively to identify issues with, and propose solutions to, cyber security and law issues. |
| Digital literacy | Use digitally-based technologies and data to find, use and disseminate information relevant to cyber security and related legal issues. |
| Critical thinking | Exercise critical thinking, judgment and intellectual independence to evaluate, consolidate and synthesise knowledge relevant to cyber security and related legal policy and practice |
| Problem solving | Apply legal reasoning, and critical analysis, and theoretical constructs to generate and articulate responses to relevant to cyber security and law contexts. |
| Self-management | <em>Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award.</em> |
| Teamwork | <em>Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award.</em> |
| Global citizenship | Apply legal and IT skills to demonstrate an understanding of the globa nature of data flows and the global nature of cybercrime |
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