Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts

Graduate Diploma in International Development and Environmental Analysis

Course code: 3754 + Mid-year entry available + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time + On-campus (Clayton)
Course coordinators: Craig Thorburn and Bruce Missingham

Course description

The graduate program in international development and environmental analysis (IDEA) is an abbreviated version of the masters by coursework degree. The graduate diploma course introduces students to international and comparative perspectives and approaches to development and global sustainability, but does not include the internship or research paper component.

Entry requirements

A bachelors pass degree in any discipline.

Course structure

Students complete 48 points, comprising 12 points of core units, and 36 points of elective units.

Core units

• IDA4140 Zones of transformation: development and environment in the Pacific-Indian Ocean region (6 points)
• IDA4230 Research and analysis in political ecology (6 points)

Electives

Students can choose electives (36 points) in one of five areas of concentration that correspond to current issues relevant in international development:

• Sustainable development and natural resource management
• Urban and regional sustainability
• Gender, culture, society in the Asia-Pacific
• Democracy, governance and civil society
• Development and environmental economics

A wide range of elective units are available in sociology, women's studies, politics, Asian studies, geography and environmental science, Indigenous studies, anthropology, and visual culture.
Units in this course currently vary between student contribution amount (SCA) (previously HECS) bands one and three

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