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The Specialist Certificate in Anterior and Dry Eye Disorders offered by the Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences will allow optometrists to advance their clinical capabilities in the day-to-day management of eye disease by affording them the opportunity to review the most current theories on the pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of anterior eye disease, including dry eye. The subject will provide optometrists with the tools necessary to develop a deeper, evidence-based understanding of anterior eye disease, including dry eye, thus empowering them to improve their clinical skills.

The Professional Certificate in Workplace Leadership is a leadership development course designed to offer significant practical learning opportunities for a diverse range of early career professionals seeking to develop their business, managerial and leadership skills and knowledge. The course is also suitable for emerging leaders, or those who have been promoted, or seek promotion and wish to develop their leadership capabilities to complement their technical knowledge and expertise, in order to get the most out of themselves and their teams.The course consists of two subjects both of which have a practical focus. 1. Foundations of Leadership and 2. Leadership in Practice, which must be taken in that sequence for this course.The Foundations of Leadership subject covers the core knowledge, skills and tools that will position students to be effective organisational leaders. This subject investigates what leadership is, why it is important and analyses the factors that impact upon workplace leadership and the impacts leadership has in an organisational context. Students will begin focusing on leadership of self and then look at the role of leadership in contemporary organisations. Students will develop an individual leadership development plan and demonstrate core capabilities including; interpreting and influencing, planning and problem solving, collaboration, relationship building, listening and communication and self-reflection.In Leadership in Practice, students will extend their development by learning and applying more advanced knowledge and skills in order to exercise and foster leadership within more complex organisational environments and systems. Drawing on theories and empirical evidence students will devise a plan to overcome a complex personal leadership conundrum. Students will also undertake more complex collaborative leadership challenges and simulations, in order to develop their systems and strategic thinking, decision making, coaching and supporting skills.The learning experience includes lectures with leading experts, case studies, leadership diagnostics, contemporary readings and resources, facilitated group discussions, and virtual simulations.

This course provides knowledge and capability of the core foundations of Supply Chain Management, in terms of the key frameworks and methods of design, modelling and analysis, required to professionally design run and improve supply chains. Benefits include the ability to set up supply chains and to operate and improve them so as to maximise their effectiveness. This includes capability to link the core elements of supply chain design and realise the value from coordinating supply with demand involving networks of organisations that collaborate to maximise their potential beneficial outcomes. Key decisions can involve capacity, technology, inventory, network design, scheduling and planning, supply chain relationships, facility location and other elements. Source of uncertainty and disruption are included in the decision-making frameworks. Outcomes include cost, quality, delivery, flexibility and agility.

This course is specifically aimed at graduates in the workplace and serves as an introduction to the principles and practices of positive psychology, which is focused on the facilitation of optimal functioning and thriving. Contemporary science-based methods for enhancing the well-being, performance and motivation of staff and clients will be presented for critical discussion.The course provides a foundation in the science of positive psychology, with examples including health, business and organisational contexts.The course content includes a range of evidence-based applications to improve positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment for people of all ages, and allows participants to undertake assessments that focus on developing and evaluating an intervention program, particularly in organisational contexts.

This course will introduce students to the key issues in language assessment, both in the classroom and in other settings. Students will receive a thorough grounding in the assessment of the different language skills (such as listening, reading, writing and speaking) and get practical experience in developing and evaluating assessments for second and foreign language learners in different contexts.

The Professional Certificate in Innovation Practice is offered to project mentors in ENGR90034 Creating Innovative Engineering (CIE) and equivalent subjects (Subject names will be added here as subjects are created). The core of these subjects involves teams of four to six students working alongside an independent mentor, or a mentor and a sponsor from a sponsoring organisation, to elaborate an innovation opportunity.This certificate provides a unique opportunity for experienced professionals to develop the management, coaching and leadership skills required to guide innovation projects and take the next step in their careers. Over the semester, participants learn about strategic and operational considerations in generating innovative products and services. They also develop the leadership skills to guide teams that are innovating.The two broad domains of the program– innovation and leadership for innovation -- are delivered together as one subject.In terms of innovation management, you will learn and facilitate the application of a human-centred design approach to an innovation project. Along with your team, you will refine a project brief, design research, conduct interviews, generate insights, create a problem statement, generate proposals that respond to that problem statement and then, select, refine, hopefully test, and finally pitch a proposal. Because you will be responsible for ensuring that the team delivers a good outcome, you will find that you need to develop a solid understanding of the human-centred innovation process.In terms of leadership, you will be in a unique position to learn how to become a great leader. Your team is likely to be ethnically and professionally very diverse. The project tasks will be well outside the prior experience of the members. Furthermore, we will not allow you to “manage” the team. That is, we will not allow you to tell them what to do. You may only use leadership behaviours such as facilitation, coaching, teaching, and so forth. However, we will give you instruction and support to create a psychologically safe environment in which you can learn. Also, by writing a weekly reflection and giving feedback to a peer on their weekly reflection, you will learn mindfully and thoughtfully about yourself as a leader.The leadership program begins with a two-day intensive workshop in which you will learn about three fundamental innovation leadership themes: adaptive leadership, authentic leadership, and the leader as coach. Over the twelve weeks of the semester you will learn a new skill each week, the underlying theory to support that skill, and you will have a chance to apply the skill with your team that week. The twelve weeks are broken into three broad domains: forming a team, driving productivity in an ambiguous environment and delivering authentic value.Candidates who successfully complete the Professional Certificate of Innovation Practice with a grade of 75% or greater, and who are admitted to the Master of Business Administration or the Master of Enterprise, may apply for two subjects (25 points) of credit towards that qualification.

The Professional Certificate in Introductory Academic Program is designed for students holding an Australia Award Scholarship who are commencing their studies in Australia. The Certificate has two primary aims. One is to support students as they transition to living and studying in Melbourne and to assist them in gaining familiarity with Australian life and culture. The other is to orient students to Australian academic culture and enhance their ability to meet the demands of their studies, particularly through building their capacity to examine critically, synthesise, and evaluate knowledge. The Certificate comprises one subject, Introductory Academic Program, which is offered in intense mode before each semester during the year.

Please note: this course is not available in 2020.The Professional Certificate in English Language is designed for primary and secondary school teachers of English who wish to develop their pedagogical content knowledge and/or take a leading role in English Language teaching in their school. The Certificate has two streams, one designed for F-10 English teachers based on the National and Victorian Curriculum, and one specifically tailored to teachers of VCE English Language in the Victorian education system. The course will focus on the pedagogical content knowledge from the disciplines of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics required to teach English Language within these curricula. The Certificate comprises two subjects: The Grammar of English, and English in Social Interaction, offered one each semester during the year. Course delivery is via a ‘blended learning’ approach with a mixture of online and intensive on-campus teaching modes, and includes extensive resources such as highlight video interviews with prominent experts in the field speaking about particular topics. Online communities will support collaboration between participants throughout the course, and the face-to-face intensives will be taught by staff in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics together with practicing English teachers. Links will be made between the requirements of the F-10 and VCE English Language curricula, classroom practice and teaching resources, and current Linguistic and Applied Linguistic research and scholarship on the grammar, discourse properties, and sociolinguistics of the English Language.

This course is specifically aimed at educators and serves as an introduction to the principles and practices of positive psychology, which is focused on the facilitation of optimal functioning and thriving. Contemporary science-based methods for enhancing the wellbeing and performance of school staff and students will be presented for critical discussion.The course provides a foundation in the science of positive psychology, with a specific focus on educational contexts.The course content includes a range of evidence-based applications to improve positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment for people of all ages, and allows participants to undertake assessments that focus on developing and evaluating an intervention program.

This course will explore the emerging fields of Educational Neuroscience and The Science of Learning. Particular focus will be on how an understanding of the mechanisms of learning can inform and improve pedagogical practice and learning outcomes. The course will provide students with a broad understanding of the scientific method, the application of that method to the design, delivery and evaluation of learning interventions, along with the neural and cognitive mechanisms which underpin learning.Specifically, students will learn how neuroscience and psychology can, and can not be, successfully translated into classroom practice. More generally, students will also learn key scientific principles, and so be equipped with the skills to evaluate the validity of educational, psychological and neuroscientific research. These skills will allow students to become informed consumers of commercial educational products and methods, and enable them to critically reflect on their own teaching philosophies and practices.