CM52 Master of Emergency and Disaster Management

In order to complete this course, you must:

  1. Complete the core structure
  2. Complete electives

Core Structure

Number of units: 9 Total credit points: 54

This course will be offered full time.

The following units are compulsory:

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
DSMG28001 Foundations of Emergency and Disaster Management
DSMG20003 Research for Emergency and Disaster Management
DSMG29001 Disaster Risk Reduction
DSMG29002 Leadership in Emergency and Disaster Management
DSMG29003 Building Adaptive Capacity with Communities
DSMG29004 Contemporary Issues in Emergency and Disaster Management
DSMG29005 Community Safety and Education
DSMG29006 Volunteerism and the Community
COMM20110 Crisis Communication

Electives - Level 8 Elective

Number of units: 2 Total credit points: 12

Students must complete 18cp of Electives.
You will need to choose a minimum of two (2) AQF Level 8 units and a maximum of one (1) AQF Level 9 unit for the course.

 

You must complete a minimum of two (2) AQF Level 8 units from the following list.

 

 

Available units
Students may choose to do any of the following:
BUSN20017 Effective Business Communications
PSYC20037 Introduction to Positive Psychology: Perspectives on Wellbeing
HRMT20024 Managing Human Resources
MGMT20129 Managing People, Organisations and Context
MGMT20144 Management and Business Context
MRKT20052 Marketing Management and Digital Communications
SAFE28003 Safety in Complexity
SAFE28001 Safety Regulation and Management
SAFE28002 Psychosocial Hazard Management
PBHL20001 Understanding Public Health
PBHL20002 Systems Thinking in Public Health
PBHL20003 Epidemiology and Statistics
PPMP20007 Project Management Concepts
PPMP20008 Initiating and Planning Projects
PPMP20010 Executing and Closing Projects
SAFE20011 Exposures and Health Risk
SAFE20017 Human Factors in Complex Systems
SAFE20018 Fatigue Risk Management
HRMT20030 Contemporary Human Resource Management and People Analytics
PSYC20038 Positive Psychology: Research Methods
PSYC20039 Inter-disciplinary and Cross-cultural Approaches to Wellbeing
PSYC20042 Building Wellbeing and Resilience: Interconnected Factors
SCIE28001 Rethinking Waste
SCIE28002 Water Resource Management
SCIE28003 Sustainability Issues and Solutions
PMSC28004 Fundamentals of Counter-terrorism and Operational Medicine

Electives - Level 9 Elective

Number of units: 1 Total credit points: 6

Students must complete 18cp of Electives.
You will need to choose a minimum of two (2) AQF Level 8 units and a maximum of one (1) AQF Level 9 unit for the course.

You must complete a maximum of one (1) AQF Level 9 unit from the following list.

Available units
Students may choose to do any of the following:
PBHL20005 Global Public Health
PBHL29001 Social Innovation and Health: Human-Centred Design Thinking
PBHL29002 Communicable Diseases
PPMP20009 Leading Lean Projects
PMSC29002 Human Performance Optimisation in Complex Environments
SAFE29001 Hazard Management and Risk Control
SCIE29002 First Nations Perspectives in Sustainability
PSYC29004 Managing Workplace Mental Health
PBHL29004 Environmental Health
PBHL29003 Non-communicable Diseases
PBHL20009 Health and Wellbeing in the Cross-Cultural Community