Graduate Certificate in Negotiation

Managing relationships and differences in the workplace, whether that be within a team, customers or other stakeholders, is a crucial skill to have as a manager.Learn dispute resolution methods including negotiation, mediation and arbitration.

You’ll learn about the processes involved in the various different dispute resolution methods and get experience in resolving disputes through case studies and role-playing in class.You might also have the chance to use avatars and virtual reality (VR) to prepare you for real life scenarios.

We are the first university in Australia to introduce VR in this way.This course focuses on negotiating strategies, tactics and processes and considers the impact and sensitivities of culture, gender and emotions during the negotiating process.

These can be implemented across many different industries including banking, health care, insurance, workers compensation and family dispute resolution.7 reasons to study a Graduate Certificate in Negotiation at MurdochBroaden your professional communication skills, or pursue a career change with the skills you will learn in this course.

Practice your negotiation and mediation skills in a variety of simulation settings.

Choose full-time, part-time, on-campus or online options to help you fit study into your working life.

Most of our classes take place after work hours during the week, starting after 4.30pm, or on weekends.

Take advantage of free workshops and seminars to help you with writing, statistics and analysing data, ethics, how to run surveys and research as a postgraduate student.

Learn from academics who have worked in industry and can share their experiences with you.

Our academics are lawyers, international trade negotiators, nationally accredited mediators, company directors and more.

Units completed in this course count as course credit for our Master of Business if you want to take your studies further and custom build your own Master.Develop your skillsBuild essential skills and knowledge to meet your career or study goals.

Topics you’ll cover include:organisational behaviour and management international business negotiations dispute resolution.Your careerA postgraduate qualification can help you further your current career and move into a more senior role or help you change career paths to pursue new opportunities.

Depending on your own situation and career aspirations, there are many careers and positions that this course can lead to.Alternative dispute resolution processes can be applied to many careers and occupations in the areas of mediation, arbitration and conciliation.Careers could include:Conflict Resolution Mediator or Manager Dispute Resolution Officer Customer Resolutions Consultant Complaints Manager Conciliator Client Liaison Specialist Dispute Assessment Officer.You could work for government agencies as a conflict specialist and help settle cultural conflicts or you could work for a corporation as a neutral individual to settle internal organisational disputes.

Course Core 12 credit points

Required Units 12 credit points

Advanced Standing

Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing. Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.

Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.

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This information applies to courses offered at our Australian campuses only. Courses offered at our Dubai, Singapore and Myanmar campuses or delivered by Open Universities Australia may have different requirements.