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Introduction to data analysis
Unit Code: ETO5510
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to data analysis’ focuses on core aspects of business analytics and helps develop your oral and written communication skills. You will learn how to source and collect data, read the data into suitable software, tidy data for analysis, build models and create visualisations to help with effective decision making.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Mathematical foundations for data science and AI
Unit Code: MAT9004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Data science draws on a foundation of strong mathematical principles. In ‘Mathematical foundations for data science and AI’ you will acquire a practical understanding of mathematical topics fundamental to computing and statistics, including: trees and other graphs, counting in combinatorics, principles of elementary probability theory, linear algebra, and fundamental concepts of calculus in one and several variables.
Introduction to accounting analytics
Unit Code: ACO5160
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to accounting analytics’ combines accounting and data analytics that are integral to decision making. You will learn how to identify questions, download data, perform testing and communicate your results. You will gain the skills to compare different analytical tools to determine which one is best suited for each problem.
Predictive analytics in business
Unit Code: ACO5170
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Predictive analytics in business’ introduces you to Big Data and predictive analytics using financial information. You will learn hands-on skills to manage large-scale financial databases and build predictive models that support strategic and investment decision making. The unit will introduce you to SQL coding and develop your skills in SAS statistics software.
Collaborative and reproducible practices
Unit Code: ETO5513
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Collaborative and reproducible practices’ aims to enhance your teamwork skills to create reproducible data analyses. You will learn how to work effectively with a group to construct a collaborative data story. These skills are practised in a team setting data analysis group project.
Data and analytics in organisations and society
Unit Code: LEO5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Businesses have large amounts of data about customers and operations that require skilled analysts to interpret. In ‘Data visualisation and analytics’ you will learn how to use data visualisation to analyse datasets. This unit will include examples from marketing, finance, economics and related disciplines to give you a wide range of experience.
Statistical data modelling
Unit Code: ITO5197
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The basis of data science is mathematical, in particular statistical modelling. In ‘Statistical data modelling’ this aspect of data analysis is given pride of place, with a focus on how modelling is used in a wide range of professional contexts. By working through case studies and industry-relevant examples, you will learn about analytic tasks, including: statistical hypothesis testing and exploratory versus confirmatory analysis. Similarly, you will acquire skills in a range of concepts fundamental to data modelling and prediction, including: basic probability distributions; random number generation and simulation; and estimation methods such as maximum likelihood estimators, Monte Carlo estimators, Bayes theorem, bias versus variance and cross validation.
Statistical data modelling
Unit Code: ITO5197
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The basis of data science is mathematical, in particular statistical modelling. In ‘Statistical data modelling’ this aspect of data analysis is given pride of place, with a focus on how modelling is used in a wide range of professional contexts. By working through case studies and industry-relevant examples, you will learn about analytic tasks, including: statistical hypothesis testing and exploratory versus confirmatory analysis. Similarly, you will acquire skills in a range of concepts fundamental to data modelling and prediction, including: basic probability distributions; random number generation and simulation; and estimation methods such as maximum likelihood estimators, Monte Carlo estimators, Bayes theorem, bias versus variance and cross validation.
Collaborative and reproducible practices
Unit Code: ETO5513
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Collaborative and reproducible practices’ aims to enhance your teamwork skills to create reproducible data analyses. You will learn how to work effectively with a group to construct a collaborative data story. These skills are practised in a team setting data analysis group project.
Data and analytics in organisations and society
Unit Code: LEO5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Businesses have large amounts of data about customers and operations that require skilled analysts to interpret. In ‘Data visualisation and analytics’ you will learn how to use data visualisation to analyse datasets. This unit will include examples from marketing, finance, economics and related disciplines to give you a wide range of experience.
Introduction to data analysis
Unit Code: ETO5510
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to data analysis’ focuses on core aspects of business analytics and helps develop your oral and written communication skills. You will learn how to source and collect data, read the data into suitable software, tidy data for analysis, build models and create visualisations to help with effective decision making.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Mathematical foundations for data science and AI
Unit Code: MAT9004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Data science draws on a foundation of strong mathematical principles. In ‘Mathematical foundations for data science and AI’ you will acquire a practical understanding of mathematical topics fundamental to computing and statistics, including: trees and other graphs, counting in combinatorics, principles of elementary probability theory, linear algebra, and fundamental concepts of calculus in one and several variables.
Collaborative and reproducible practices
Unit Code: ETO5513
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Collaborative and reproducible practices’ aims to enhance your teamwork skills to create reproducible data analyses. You will learn how to work effectively with a group to construct a collaborative data story. These skills are practised in a team setting data analysis group project.
Data and analytics in organisations and society
Unit Code: LEO5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Businesses have large amounts of data about customers and operations that require skilled analysts to interpret. In ‘Data visualisation and analytics’ you will learn how to use data visualisation to analyse datasets. This unit will include examples from marketing, finance, economics and related disciplines to give you a wide range of experience.
Introduction to accounting analytics
Unit Code: ACO5160
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to accounting analytics’ combines accounting and data analytics that are integral to decision making. You will learn how to identify questions, download data, perform testing and communicate your results. You will gain the skills to compare different analytical tools to determine which one is best suited for each problem.
Predictive analytics in business
Unit Code: ACO5170
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Predictive analytics in business’ introduces you to Big Data and predictive analytics using financial information. You will learn hands-on skills to manage large-scale financial databases and build predictive models that support strategic and investment decision making. The unit will introduce you to SQL coding and develop your skills in SAS statistics software.
Statistical data modelling
Unit Code: ITO5197
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The basis of data science is mathematical, in particular statistical modelling. In ‘Statistical data modelling’ this aspect of data analysis is given pride of place, with a focus on how modelling is used in a wide range of professional contexts. By working through case studies and industry-relevant examples, you will learn about analytic tasks, including: statistical hypothesis testing and exploratory versus confirmatory analysis. Similarly, you will acquire skills in a range of concepts fundamental to data modelling and prediction, including: basic probability distributions; random number generation and simulation; and estimation methods such as maximum likelihood estimators, Monte Carlo estimators, Bayes theorem, bias versus variance and cross validation.
Consumer, Brands and Marketing Management
Unit Code: MBO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In light of an increasingly digital and dynamic business environment the practice of digital marketing is explored and provides participants with an opportunity to deepen their learning and build a portfolio of successful marketing projects. Specifically, participants will employ their understanding of digital strategies, data use, design thinking and agile methods to arrive at a set of findings about the current and future state of marketing as practiced in a specified industrial sector.
Control, Performance and Accounting Management
Unit Code: MBO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit provides MBA (Digital) students with foundational and practical knowledge for the management accounting within contemporary organisations. Like the other five function-based units, the accounting unit emphasises the contemporary tools and techniques for budgeting, resourcing, and accounting activities, reflecting the current environment of digital transformation. The primary lessons and tools provide base-line understanding of managerial accounting appropriate for experienced professionals and managers who aspire to strategic leadership. The unit is designed for non-accounting and non-financial managers who consume and apply accounting information, not those engaged in the practice of accounting.
Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Unit Code: MBO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key focus in this unit will be understanding the role of current and emerging technologies including robotics, AI, sensors (e.g. RFIDs), machine learning and smart, interconnected devices in transforming operations, logistics, and supply chains. Contemporary disruptions and challenges to global supply chains, operations and distribution systems, associated with geo-political pressures and changes, as well as environmental and sustainability are examined.
Value, Risk and Financial Management
Unit Code: MBO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key focus of this unit is to make use of digital platforms and explore new developments in finance, such as employing Fintech, peer-to-peer lending, and making investment decisions under uncertainty. The unit will also provide an introduction to financial statement analysis and core concepts such as discounted cash flow techniques, corporate capital budgeting and valuation and explore issues involved in the firm’s financing.
People, Culture and Change Management
Unit Code: MBO5005
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores engagement, development and performance of people in organisations in light of an increasingly digital and dynamic business environment. You will explore people analytics, models and methods to generate insights for decision-making. Specific areas of focus include the adoption of digital technologies (e.g. systems, media, and platforms) in people management, the integration of AI systems in the performance of work, and new dynamics in the relationship between organisations and workers.
Governance, continuity and crisis management
Unit Code: LEO5106
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Responding to failures in corporate responsibility and an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, means that stakeholders require new standards for effective organisation governance.
With a focus on complex and dynamic settings, this unit integrates lessons from of a broad range of established governance practice and theory, with specific contemporary issues: e.g. financial and non-financial risk, crisis response planning, diverse and inclusive organisational practices, cybersecurity, crisis management, and social licence to operate.
The unit provides participants with an opportunity to deepen their learning and build a portfolio of successful projects.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding and application of governance theory, methods, tools and frameworks
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise and evaluate technological advances and changes in the economic, political, social and environmental context to the contemporary practice of governance, business continuity and crisis management
Strategic management of contemporary organisations
Unit Code: MBO5007
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit provides MBA (Digital) students with foundational and practical knowledge for strategic management of contemporary organisations. Like the other organisational skills-based units, the strategy unit emphasises the contemporary environment and anticipated changes in the emergence of new organisational forms. To do this, the unit places students in virtual teams that experience iterative sprints, introducing them to the challenge of guiding organisational alignment within dynamic environments.
Leadership for sustainable development
Unit Code: LEO5108
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Students will engage with ways in which leadership practice can contribute to meeting sustainable development principles and ESG imperatives which increasingly confront today’s businesses. Leaders need to demonstrate a commitment to the principles of sustainable development and requires alignment to more than just efficiency and profitability goals. It needs to be directed to the longer term sustainability goals and students will explore key models, approaches, and practical implications of leadership that are inclusive, collaborative and long-term in their orientation and aspiration.
Innovation and change for digital transformation
Unit Code: LEO5109
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
If people lack the right mindset to change and the current organisational practices are flawed, digital transformation will simply magnify those flaws. Digitalisation can be thought of as the use of digital technologies, platforms, systems and methods to change business models, create new products and services and introduce new ways of generating value. Design thinking, business model canvas, customer experience mapping and agile implementation will be built upon in order to explore the application of innovation approaches for digital transformation.
Currency and lifelong learning
Unit Code: MBO5010
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
To keep pace with new and dynamic digital technologies modern professionals must continually build on their digital intelligence and enhance their currency. In ‘Currency and lifelong learning’ you will explore, experiment and advance your professional practice through a range of practical learning. This unit will significantly improve your ability to access, evaluate and use information and data to establish you as a driven and valuable professional.
Direction, purpose and career advancement
Unit Code: MBO5011
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Direction, purpose and career advancement’ you will deepen your understanding on how to establish a purposeful and adaptable career. The unit involves a broad range of interactive learning to encourage professional and development goals, including positive psychology, growth mindset, journaling, networking and design thinking approaches. You will engage on a developmental journey with the aim of building professional and personal self-awareness that you can take with you long after you graduate.
Connection, communication and community
Unit Code: MBO5012
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
As technology advances, so too does our need to connect with one another in the workplace. ‘Connection, communication and community’ explores the contemporary idea of professional communities and how they can be enhanced through more effective and inclusive communications. You will gain valuable skills in network analysis, communities of practice, learning communities, organisational learning and social media.
Decision making for managers
Unit Code: LEO5301
Description:
Digital transformation and disruption have made it increasingly important for managers to understand the applications of using data to make informed decisions. Managers must make complex decisions to enable organisational success. The abundance of data generated by organisations can be confronting for managers particularly on how to use data to make optimal decisions. This unit introduces a data analytics cycle to empower managers in using data to generate insights and execute decisions. Students will learn how fallacies in data can lead to the formulation of incorrect conclusions and potentially suboptimal decisions. This unit describes the importance of analysis and visualisation of data to make effective managerial decisions with reference to reports and dashboards.
Data and analytics in organisations and society
Unit Code: LEO5302
Description:
The use of data and application of analytics is now ubiquitous in addressing various problems in the organisational and public domain. Despite the widespread use of data and analytics, there are issues and challenges that students should be aware of its utility for enacting change and for decision making purposes. This unit will provide an overview of contemporary issues surrounding the utility of data and analytics. Real-world case studies (e.g., Cambridge Analytica and others) will illustrate potential undesirable and unintended consequences for using analytics and data-driven technologies. Students will develop an understanding of the economic, legal, and ethical considerations when considering the use of analytics. Frameworks and models on data governance will be introduced for building accountability to maximise proper usage of analytics tools. The unit will explore the “dark side” of data analytics and artificial intelligence to enable students to make balanced judgments about the positive and negative consequences of using data for specific goals.
Data analytics and insights generation
Unit Code: LEO5303
Description:
Business intelligence and analytics applications and techniques enable organisations in making sense of vast amounts of data. Managers and analysts can benefit from applying analytical techniques for data to facilitate knowledge development for organisations and stakeholders. This unit will introduce students to the process of undertaking data transformation and analysis for the purpose of producing insights from the data to address real world problems. Students will understand from the analyst’s perspective and their toolkit on how to use modern tools (e.g. SQL, Excel, Power BI, Tableau) to run exploratory data analysis and statistical analyses. Results and outputs are then framed from a managerial perspective on how to communicate insights. The aim for students is to be able to apply analytical techniques to derive actionable insights using complex datasets.
Reporting for strategy and change
Unit Code: LEO5304
Description:
Different stakeholder groups in organisations rely on a range of reports and dashboards for operational and strategic decision-making needs. Engaging and relevant reports that communicate appropriate key performance indicator (KPI) information should be aligned to organisational strategy and objectives. This unit will explore the stakeholder engagement and leadership skills necessary to drive adoption and usage of self-service reporting platforms. The unit will also introduce modern reporting and data management platforms used for implementing reporting solutions. Students will develop an understanding of the optimal characteristics (e.g., accessibility, completeness) of a report and/or dashboard to support different levels of management in an organisational setting. Lastly, the unit will illuminate how reports and dashboards can enable visibility on performance measures to monitor progress towards an organisation’s strategy.
Data exploration, visualisation, and information design
Unit Code: LEO5310
Description:
Contemporary analytics requires skills in data identification, exploration, and presentation. This unit develops basic skills in the use of SQL and R to clean and explore data. It then focuses on the use of R, as a programming language, for further manipulation and visualisation of complex data. Specifically, it promotes the use of R for development of dashboards, presentation slides and reports. It also provides instruction on the use of Generative AI to draft R code. Through the strategic application of these tools, commonly used throughout the data analytics cycle, the unit emphasises principles of information design in the exploration and visualisation of complex data, thereby improving the usability of analytical findings to support decision-making and address dynamic challenges. Examples will included as a foundation for students to develop their own application of data exploration and visualisation.
Quantitative analysis and data modelling
Unit Code: LEO5311
Description:
Quantitative data analysis lies at the centre of the data analytics cycle – the critical stage when data is transformed into findings and insights. This unit introduces the use of Microsoft Excel for statistical analysis and basic modelling methods. While covering a broad range of quantitative methods, it provides specific instruction on the use of confidence intervals, linear regression, and causality analysis to generate findings that can inform decisions across a wide range of applications. Examples from marketing, economics, accounting and related disciplines are included as a foundation for students to design and execute their own application of quantitative data analysis.
Data reporting, presentation and dashboards
Unit Code: LEO5312
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Data reporting and presentation plays a vital role in the data analytics cycle. This unit develops advanced skills in the use of Power BI for the exploration, analysis, and presentation of data for decision-making. Specifically, it focusses on transformation of raw data into a worked form for initial visualisation and descriptive analysis. It then moves through the data analytics cycle to provide instruction for intensive use of Power BI to generate reports and dashboards in alignment with stakeholder needs. Examples of analysis, visualisation and reporting using Power BI will be included as a foundation for students to design and execute their own application of reporting and presentation.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit is designed to provide you with the opportunity to put theory into practice in a business environment.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5200
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Monash University’s 2030 impact statement is committed to addressing the most pressing challenges of the future. This unit provides enterprising students with the opportunity to put theory into practice in response to global challenges.
Students will learn about and engage with three global challenges and develop a proposal that has the potential to change it.
Global challenges
- Climate change
- Geo-political security
- Thriving communities
Decision making for managers
Unit Code: LEO5301
Description:
Digital transformation and disruption have made it increasingly important for managers to understand the applications of using data to make informed decisions. Managers must make complex decisions to enable organisational success. The abundance of data generated by organisations can be confronting for managers particularly on how to use data to make optimal decisions. This unit introduces a data analytics cycle to empower managers in using data to generate insights and execute decisions. Students will learn how fallacies in data can lead to the formulation of incorrect conclusions and potentially suboptimal decisions. This unit describes the importance of analysis and visualisation of data to make effective managerial decisions with reference to reports and dashboards.
Data analytics and insights generation
Unit Code: LEO5303
Description:
Business intelligence and analytics applications and techniques enable organisations in making sense of vast amounts of data. Managers and analysts can benefit from applying analytical techniques for data to facilitate knowledge development for organisations and stakeholders. This unit will introduce students to the process of undertaking data transformation and analysis for the purpose of producing insights from the data to address real world problems. Students will understand from the analyst’s perspective and their toolkit on how to use modern tools (e.g. SQL, Excel, Power BI, Tableau) to run exploratory data analysis and statistical analyses. Results and outputs are then framed from a managerial perspective on how to communicate insights. The aim for students is to be able to apply analytical techniques to derive actionable insights using complex datasets.
Data and analytics in organisations and society
Unit Code: LEO5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Businesses have large amounts of data about customers and operations that require skilled analysts to interpret. In ‘Data visualisation and analytics’ you will learn how to use data visualisation to analyse datasets. This unit will include examples from marketing, finance, economics and related disciplines to give you a wide range of experience.
Reporting for strategy and change
Unit Code: LEO5304
Description:
Different stakeholder groups in organisations rely on a range of reports and dashboards for operational and strategic decision-making needs. Engaging and relevant reports that communicate appropriate key performance indicator (KPI) information should be aligned to organisational strategy and objectives. This unit will explore the stakeholder engagement and leadership skills necessary to drive adoption and usage of self-service reporting platforms. The unit will also introduce modern reporting and data management platforms used for implementing reporting solutions. Students will develop an understanding of the optimal characteristics (e.g., accessibility, completeness) of a report and/or dashboard to support different levels of management in an organisational setting. Lastly, the unit will illuminate how reports and dashboards can enable visibility on performance measures to monitor progress towards an organisation’s strategy.
Consumer, Brands and Marketing Management
Unit Code: MBO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In light of an increasingly digital and dynamic business environment the practice of digital marketing is explored and provides participants with an opportunity to deepen their learning and build a portfolio of successful marketing projects. Specifically, participants will employ their understanding of digital strategies, data use, design thinking and agile methods to arrive at a set of findings about the current and future state of marketing as practiced in a specified industrial sector.
Control, Performance and Accounting Management
Unit Code: MBO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit provides MBA (Digital) students with foundational and practical knowledge for the management accounting within contemporary organisations. Like the other five function-based units, the accounting unit emphasises the contemporary tools and techniques for budgeting, resourcing, and accounting activities, reflecting the current environment of digital transformation. The primary lessons and tools provide base-line understanding of managerial accounting appropriate for experienced professionals and managers who aspire to strategic leadership. The unit is designed for non-accounting and non-financial managers who consume and apply accounting information, not those engaged in the practice of accounting.
Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Unit Code: MBO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key focus in this unit will be understanding the role of current and emerging technologies including robotics, AI, sensors (e.g. RFIDs), machine learning and smart, interconnected devices in transforming operations, logistics, and supply chains. Contemporary disruptions and challenges to global supply chains, operations and distribution systems, associated with geo-political pressures and changes, as well as environmental and sustainability are examined.
Value, Risk and Financial Management
Unit Code: MBO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key focus of this unit is to make use of digital platforms and explore new developments in finance, such as employing Fintech, peer-to-peer lending, and making investment decisions under uncertainty. The unit will also provide an introduction to financial statement analysis and core concepts such as discounted cash flow techniques, corporate capital budgeting and valuation and explore issues involved in the firm’s financing.
People, Culture and Change Management
Unit Code: MBO5005
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores engagement, development and performance of people in organisations in light of an increasingly digital and dynamic business environment. You will explore people analytics, models and methods to generate insights for decision-making. Specific areas of focus include the adoption of digital technologies (e.g. systems, media, and platforms) in people management, the integration of AI systems in the performance of work, and new dynamics in the relationship between organisations and workers.
Governance, continuity and crisis management
Unit Code: LEO5106
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Responding to failures in corporate responsibility and an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, means that stakeholders require new standards for effective organisation governance.
With a focus on complex and dynamic settings, this unit integrates lessons from of a broad range of established governance practice and theory, with specific contemporary issues: e.g. financial and non-financial risk, crisis response planning, diverse and inclusive organisational practices, cybersecurity, crisis management, and social licence to operate.
The unit provides participants with an opportunity to deepen their learning and build a portfolio of successful projects.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding and application of governance theory, methods, tools and frameworks
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise and evaluate technological advances and changes in the economic, political, social and environmental context to the contemporary practice of governance, business continuity and crisis management
Strategic management of contemporary organisations
Unit Code: MBO5007
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit provides MBA (Digital) students with foundational and practical knowledge for strategic management of contemporary organisations. Like the other organisational skills-based units, the strategy unit emphasises the contemporary environment and anticipated changes in the emergence of new organisational forms. To do this, the unit places students in virtual teams that experience iterative sprints, introducing them to the challenge of guiding organisational alignment within dynamic environments.
Leadership for sustainable development
Unit Code: LEO5108
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Students will engage with ways in which leadership practice can contribute to meeting sustainable development principles and ESG imperatives which increasingly confront today’s businesses. Leaders need to demonstrate a commitment to the principles of sustainable development and requires alignment to more than just efficiency and profitability goals. It needs to be directed to the longer term sustainability goals and students will explore key models, approaches, and practical implications of leadership that are inclusive, collaborative and long-term in their orientation and aspiration.
Innovation and change for digital transformation
Unit Code: LEO5109
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
If people lack the right mindset to change and the current organisational practices are flawed, digital transformation will simply magnify those flaws. Digitalisation can be thought of as the use of digital technologies, platforms, systems and methods to change business models, create new products and services and introduce new ways of generating value. Design thinking, business model canvas, customer experience mapping and agile implementation will be built upon in order to explore the application of innovation approaches for digital transformation.
Currency and lifelong learning
Unit Code: MBO5010
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
To keep pace with new and dynamic digital technologies modern professionals must continually build on their digital intelligence and enhance their currency. In ‘Currency and lifelong learning’ you will explore, experiment and advance your professional practice through a range of practical learning. This unit will significantly improve your ability to access, evaluate and use information and data to establish you as a driven and valuable professional.
Connection, communication and community
Unit Code: MBO5012
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
As technology advances, so too does our need to connect with one another in the workplace. ‘Connection, communication and community’ explores the contemporary idea of professional communities and how they can be enhanced through more effective and inclusive communications. You will gain valuable skills in network analysis, communities of practice, learning communities, organisational learning and social media.
Direction, purpose and career advancement
Unit Code: MBO5011
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Direction, purpose and career advancement’ you will deepen your understanding on how to establish a purposeful and adaptable career. The unit involves a broad range of interactive learning to encourage professional and development goals, including positive psychology, growth mindset, journaling, networking and design thinking approaches. You will engage on a developmental journey with the aim of building professional and personal self-awareness that you can take with you long after you graduate.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
People and change
Unit Code: MGO5100
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts, and frameworks for understanding the practice of organisational change. The unit explores planned and unplanned change in depth, by exploring the benefits, challenges, and opportunities associated with both approaches to change. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based application which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management, and incorporate new learning about change processes and outcomes, to help employees, managers, and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Ethics and legal issues in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5120
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces key concepts and frameworks for understanding legal and ethical context in human resource management. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based applications which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary legal and ethical challenges and apply new learning in uncertain times.
Sustainability and performance in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5110
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores workforce sustainability and performance in contemporary human resource management. It provides relevant theories and frameworks to understand how organisations can sustainably engage with people in times of uncertainty and change. Students will gain knowledge and skills to develop their capacities to become innovative future-ready managers who are able to reflect on current and emerging human resource challenges and opportunities and apply people management knowledge to complex organisational issues to contribute to workforce sustainability and performance.
Diversity and Inclusion
Unit Code: MGO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts and frameworks for understanding the scope of workplace diversity and inclusion. It presents the case for diversity and inclusion, including the benefits, challenges and opportunities.
The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management and incorporate new learning about the contribution of diversity and inclusion to help employees and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the case for and challenges of workplace diversity and inclusion to meet individual and organisational needs
- Evaluate a range of debates, approaches, frameworks and research to guide the implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies to create diverse and inclusive workplaces.
Engagement and talent management
Unit Code: MGO5200
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores engagement and talent management in contemporary organisations. The learning content aims to develop inquiry and capabilities that are necessary to attract, select, develop and retain employees for greater workplace engagement. The unit examines theories of engagement using a future focused lens of talent management. It critically analyses strategic approaches to underpin sustainable organisational practice that is poised to lead organisations through periods of uncertainty and change.
Workforce and employment analytics
Unit Code: MGO5220
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Synopsis: Contemporary human resource management (HRM) practice is increasingly relying on data to inform an organisation’s HR strategy. Digitalisation and existing business systems in organisations can hold an abundance of people related data sets which can be used to generate insights and evidence for effectively managing a workforce. This unit introduces data analytics concepts in the context of HRM and people management. You will learn how modern analytical tools can be used to visualise and meaningfully communicate insights from HR-centric data and how predictive analytics can be applied to various areas HRM (e.g. predicting employee attrition).
Mental health and well-being in the workplace
Unit Code: MGO5210
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The central theme of this unit is applied psychology focused at the individual, group and organisational levels. At the individual level the use of vocational assessment inventories to determine career choice and selection will be examined. Theories of leadership, power, motivation, job satisfaction, morale and the processes involved in training personnel will be examined at the group level. At the organisational level topics include systems theory, organisational culture, conflict and change.
Disability and inclusive practice
Unit Code: PSY5017
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2022) estimates that 1 in 6 Australians live with a disability. In this unit you will further your understanding of ableism, disability and inclusive practice, and the intersection between mental health and disability. You will have the opportunity to develop skills that are relevant to working in varied contexts with people who have lived and living experience of disability and those who support them. This learning will be positioned within key frameworks to allow for a thorough examination of societal barriers, such as access to services and employment, and possible solutions to better facilitate the inclusion of people with lived experience of disabilities. This unit will assist you to appreciate the complex impacts of disability and work towards more inclusive practices.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Diversity and Inclusion
Unit Code: MGO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts and frameworks for understanding the scope of workplace diversity and inclusion. It presents the case for diversity and inclusion, including the benefits, challenges and opportunities.
The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management and incorporate new learning about the contribution of diversity and inclusion to help employees and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the case for and challenges of workplace diversity and inclusion to meet individual and organisational needs
- Evaluate a range of debates, approaches, frameworks and research to guide the implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies to create diverse and inclusive workplaces.
People and change
Unit Code: MGO5100
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts, and frameworks for understanding the practice of organisational change. The unit explores planned and unplanned change in depth, by exploring the benefits, challenges, and opportunities associated with both approaches to change. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based application which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management, and incorporate new learning about change processes and outcomes, to help employees, managers, and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Ethics and legal issues in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5120
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces key concepts and frameworks for understanding legal and ethical context in human resource management. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based applications which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary legal and ethical challenges and apply new learning in uncertain times.
Sustainability and performance in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5110
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores workforce sustainability and performance in contemporary human resource management. It provides relevant theories and frameworks to understand how organisations can sustainably engage with people in times of uncertainty and change. Students will gain knowledge and skills to develop their capacities to become innovative future-ready managers who are able to reflect on current and emerging human resource challenges and opportunities and apply people management knowledge to complex organisational issues to contribute to workforce sustainability and performance.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
The rise of project-based organisations
Unit Code: OPO5000
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The unit explores the rise of an emerging organisational form—the project-based organisation. It addresses the environmental forces that give rise to project-based organisations and the requisite governance systems required to coordinate across projects, programs and portfolios, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and the creation of value for the organisation. Leadership theories and the competencies of project leadership, which are required to support effective governance when managing projects, are also reviewed.
The project as a social system
Unit Code: OPO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores projects as primarily social constructs, where sense-making and adaptive behaviours are required to accommodate local contexts, dynamics, and personal attributes. The perception of projects as a process is critically examined and challenged with concepts from systems thinking. Cultural and political practices are explored to develop an understanding of the interrelationships between various elements of a project, and the environment in which they are executed.
Project management for organisational innovation
Unit Code: OPO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Project managers require a range of techniques to deal with projects that may be volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. This unit will explore the need for project managers to develop bespoke approaches which address the unique requirements of innovation-driven projects. With a focus on design thinking, you will evaluate the requirements of a specific (disruptive) innovation and propose a unique project design to achieve the organisation’s goals.
Managing project knowledge
Unit Code: OPO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The unit explores the role of knowledge networks in project delivery. It focuses on developing an understanding of how project managers acquire and exchange knowledge, and how this knowledge impacts their projects. The unit incorporates concepts and theories from various disciplines aligned to project management and knowledge management but takes the next step of what is arguably the end goal of our knowledge management system, the application and use of the knowledge we have.
Introduction to data analysis
Unit Code: ETO5510
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to data analysis’ focuses on core aspects of business analytics and helps develop your oral and written communication skills. You will learn how to source and collect data, read the data into suitable software, tidy data for analysis, build models and create visualisations to help with effective decision making.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Mathematical foundations for data science and AI
Unit Code: MAT9004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Data science draws on a foundation of strong mathematical principles. In ‘Mathematical foundations for data science and AI’ you will acquire a practical understanding of mathematical topics fundamental to computing and statistics, including: trees and other graphs, counting in combinatorics, principles of elementary probability theory, linear algebra, and fundamental concepts of calculus in one and several variables.
Statistical data modelling
Unit Code: ITO5197
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The basis of data science is mathematical, in particular statistical modelling. In ‘Statistical data modelling’ this aspect of data analysis is given pride of place, with a focus on how modelling is used in a wide range of professional contexts. By working through case studies and industry-relevant examples, you will learn about analytic tasks, including: statistical hypothesis testing and exploratory versus confirmatory analysis. Similarly, you will acquire skills in a range of concepts fundamental to data modelling and prediction, including: basic probability distributions; random number generation and simulation; and estimation methods such as maximum likelihood estimators, Monte Carlo estimators, Bayes theorem, bias versus variance and cross validation.
Collaborative and reproducible practices
Unit Code: ETO5513
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Collaborative and reproducible practices’ aims to enhance your teamwork skills to create reproducible data analyses. You will learn how to work effectively with a group to construct a collaborative data story. These skills are practised in a team setting data analysis group project.
Data and analytics in organisations and society
Unit Code: LEO5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Businesses have large amounts of data about customers and operations that require skilled analysts to interpret. In ‘Data visualisation and analytics’ you will learn how to use data visualisation to analyse datasets. This unit will include examples from marketing, finance, economics and related disciplines to give you a wide range of experience.
Introduction to accounting analytics
Unit Code: ACO5160
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to accounting analytics’ combines accounting and data analytics that are integral to decision making. You will learn how to identify questions, download data, perform testing and communicate your results. You will gain the skills to compare different analytical tools to determine which one is best suited for each problem.
Predictive analytics in business
Unit Code: ACO5170
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Predictive analytics in business’ introduces you to Big Data and predictive analytics using financial information. You will learn hands-on skills to manage large-scale financial databases and build predictive models that support strategic and investment decision making. The unit will introduce you to SQL coding and develop your skills in SAS statistics software.
Principles of global communications
Unit Code: APG5191
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit will develop foundation knowledge and skills in the field of global communications at graduate level. Particular focus is given to understanding the critical roles played by communications fields and industries across diverse sectors including politics, government, business and everyday society. These roles are further explored in the context of the complexities posed by a world of digitalisation and globalisation.
Strategic communications in a digital era
Unit Code: APG5192
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Strategic communication in a digital era further explores broad debates in the core concepts and theories of strategic communication across public, private and non-government sectors in a global context. In today’s societal world anyone from politicians, to business leaders, to environmental and human rights groups, as examples, lean to the fields of communications and media to advance their strategic aims and goals. Sources, strategies and ethics will be further analysed together with a particular emphasis on the complexities of new social movements and communication for development. These distinct ethical considerations are critical to professional communications in a digital era.
Data analytics in communications
Unit Code: APG5193
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit, students acquire skills in gathering, analysing and visualising digital data to gain a better understanding of audience sentiment, behaviour and engagement. Drawing on case studies and practical research, students understand the value of data analytics in informing communication strategies. Students also engage with the ethical and legal concerns at the heart of public debates relating to the collection and use of ‘big data’
Marketing principles in a digital world
Unit Code: MKO5916
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Marketing principles in a digital world examines the concepts and theories of marketing and applies them within a digital context. The unit will explore developing a marketing orientation through value, whilst understanding consumer behaviour in a digital world. The role of marketing in the creation of value for stakeholders, together with using contemporary tools to understand consumers and their needs will be a key focus. Product development in a digital world, creating value through pricing and capturing value through distribution will also be analysed. Strategic marketing tools to design and implement effective competitive strategies will be appraised and selected to create value through marketing ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
The digital enterprise
Unit Code: LEO5103
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Organisations around the world enjoy increasing opportunities to embrace the ever-expanding capabilities of a digital enterprise. Digital enterprises promote a culture of excellence dedicated to the realisation of an overarching digital strategy, taking full advantage of data-centric organisational processes and unique ecosystems of integrated production and service delivery platforms. In this unit, you will come to understand the characteristics of a digital enterprise and how they can be realised through digital transformation. You will also think critically about how digital enterprises are uniquely positioned to lead positive change through the practices they employ for sustainable development and the positions they take on today’s global challenges. Learning Objectives- Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and dimensions of a digital enterprise and the underlying process of digital transformation
- Identify and critically evaluate how digital enterprises can lead positive change in sustainable development and global challenges.
Enterprise analytics
Unit Code: LEO5104
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The modern organisation generates a significant amount of data that is used to enhance decision making and improve ESG (environmental, social, governance) performance. Implementing analytics across an enterprise should establish a data-driven environment using the right tools and platforms to convert data into meaningful information for the right end users.
This unit explores how contemporary business intelligence, data analytics and reporting capabilities (e.g., Excel, Power BI, Tableau) can be used effectively to communicate actionable insights to stakeholders. You will consider the strategic and technical considerations of designing, delivering and utilising a successful enterprise analytics solution for today’s global challenges.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the strategies and challenges of implementing an enterprise analytics solution
- Recognise the types of data analytics in an organisation and how these can inform decision making and address business problems
- Develop and understand data storytelling skills combined with analytical resources to foster a data-driven enterprise
- Identify and critically evaluate the frameworks, tools and applications that can be used in an enterprise setting to deliver actionable reporting and insights.
Innovation and change for digital transformation
Unit Code: LEO5109
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
If people lack the right mindset to change and the current organisational practices are flawed, digital transformation will simply magnify those flaws. Digitalisation can be thought of as the use of digital technologies, platforms, systems and methods to change business models, create new products and services and introduce new ways of generating value. Design thinking, business model canvas, customer experience mapping and agile implementation will be built upon in order to explore the application of innovation approaches for digital transformation.
Dimensions of digital technology
Unit Code: LAW5801
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The digital revolution of the 21st century requires the law to evolve rapidly and in ways never thought of previously. This unit will provide you with technical knowledge of some of the fundamental aspects of the digital world and how those technologies intersect with the law. You will examine key technologies and systems, for example, data collection and sharing, networks, automated decision-making, machine learning, artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies. You will consider the operation of those technologies in light of existing legal principles and regulatory frameworks and how these can be re-interpreted for the digital context. Learning objectives- Demonstrate an understanding of the range of digital mechanisms and practices that are used in Australia and internationally, including data networks and systems, automated decision making, algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies
- Critically analyse the way in which those digital technologies are designed, implemented and regulated
- Synthesise information from a broad range of relevant sources to critically evaluate legal and ethical issues arising from a range of technologies, innovations and processes
- Apply professional judgement to interpret legal conclusions and justify a considered opinion on case studies relevant to the application of digital technologies
- Apply technical and legal knowledge to analyse the way in which future technological directions may develop and how these should be regulated by law.
Design thinking
Unit Code: ADO5111
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In today’s ever-changing world, design thinking empowers you with the tools you need to break free of fixed mindsets, embracing fresh thinking and alternative perspectives. This unit will introduce you to the key skills and practices associated with design thinking, and offer opportunities to explore the application of these useful creativity techniques.
It employs a range of conceptual and communication approaches, ways to investigate and reconsider the context in which we work and live, along with the potential for innovation. As such, this unit enhances your decision making by equipping you with new ways of approaching both problems and opportunities.
You will leave this unit with new perspectives and adaptable tools to face the challenges of tomorrow and be an agent of positive change.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the methods and mindsets of Design Thinking and their application
- Identify and analyse ill-defined, real-world project challenges and relevant Design Thinking approaches
- Apply Design Thinking methods and mindsets to a project-based problem to develop new perspectives on key issues and to identify potential opportunities
- Develop, test and evaluate original proposals in response to project-based problems
- Develop an awareness of your preferred approaches to addressing complex tasks, and ways these may be extended through Design Thinking.
The enterprising leader
Unit Code: LEO5101
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the era of emergence, enterprising leaders need an ever-evolving understanding of disruptive forces, coupled with the ability to imagine alternative futures to (re)shape our world. This unit introduces futurism as a lens to make sense of and contribute to global debates and challenges such as climate change, geopolitical security and thriving communities.
You will develop your entrepreneurial mindset and learn about how to lead the transition from where you are now, to the world you imagine in the future. To do this, you will engage at the intersection of two momentous forces: technological progress and social movement.
Upon completion, you will be able to come up with exciting futures and spirited change initiatives that are rooted in environmental, social and economic perspectives.
Learning Objectives
- Apply an entrepreneurial mindset to complex community and enterprise problems
- Practice futurist agency in imagining and creating the kind of future we want to live in, and the actions we can take to get us there
- Critically analyse and evaluate the interconnections among leadership, economic, environmental and social perspectives
- Create transition initiatives based on cutting edge technology and principles of social movement.
The learning leader
Unit Code: LEO5107
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
It can be argued that the two primary reasons leaders fail are because of failed relationships, or because they fail to continually learn. This unit explores how we understand ourselves as leaders, build psychological safety, motivation and resilience in the face of persistent challenges.
You will examine compassionate leadership and how to cultivate it (especially in the face of tension or conflict). You will learn strategies to enhance compassion, frame stressors, improve your own wellbeing and create more caring and compassionate workplaces.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary approaches to leadership with a focus on compassion, care of self and others, and psychological safety in the workplace
- Demonstrate the ability to identify and adapt one’s approach to leadership through self-reflection and self-direction in one’s ongoing development as a learning leader
- Demonstrate a capacity to engage with multiple layers of ethical, legal, and practical considerations in relation to the global challenges in which leaders must make decisions and take direction.
Leadership for sustainable development
Unit Code: LEO5108
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Students will engage with ways in which leadership practice can contribute to meeting sustainable development principles and ESG imperatives which increasingly confront today’s businesses. Leaders need to demonstrate a commitment to the principles of sustainable development and requires alignment to more than just efficiency and profitability goals. It needs to be directed to the longer term sustainability goals and students will explore key models, approaches, and practical implications of leadership that are inclusive, collaborative and long-term in their orientation and aspiration.
Health systems and policy
Unit Code: MPH5301
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Developing health systems
Unit Code: MPH5308
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Health systems, whether in developing or developed countries, must continually adapt to emerging challenges, which is why health sector reform is an ongoing process. ‘Developing health systems’ contextualises these challenges. By assessing a recent case study of health care reform, you will have the opportunity to explore alternative conceptual frameworks for analysing health care systems, with an emphasis on the “control knobs framework”, which describes the key levers of a health care system, and how these levers work to influence outcomes of interest such as equity, cost, financial risk protection and quality of care.
Healthcare and financial management
Unit Code: MPH5318
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The provision of effective healthcare is an essential component of contemporary society. As the average life expectancy increases, so does the expectations and demand of healthcare. These community expectations on healthcare delivery and demand have greater financial costs. Coupled with advances in health technology result in challenging social and financial implications. Students in this unit will examine the basic accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and financial business planning concepts applicable to the healthcare sector. Learners will examine and apply how such principles and techniques are used by healthcare professionals to aid strategic, operational and service delivery decision making.
Healthcare improvement and learning systems
Unit Code: MPH5316
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Health care improvement science is crucial for translating new knowledge into practice and delivering the best possible patient care. ‘Healthcare improvement and learning systems’ provides students with the skills and knowledge to develop and implement health care improvement projects in clinical settings and develop solutions for gaps in health care through considered data management and stakeholder engagement. You will learn about translating and mobilising new knowledge and engage with community and service users to conduct healthcare improvement projects and lead innovation, while exploring key concepts that include change management strategies, strategies to enable knowledge sharing, data collection, and managing information systems.
Healthcare and economic management
Unit Code: MPH5317
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Healthcare and economic management’ explores the complexities of care delivery in the evolving world of health services. Healthcare delivery and funding are intertwined, which means that fluency in health economics is essential. In this unit, students will explore concepts of resource allocation and analyse and compare funding for competing health needs. It will also include critical analysis of the impact of innovation and how this is incorporated into current health care funding.
Managing digital health
Unit Code: MPH5319
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
MPH5319 Managing Digital Health provides a solid understanding of the current digital health environment in Australia (and internationally) including examples of large-scale digital health initiatives. It explores the different types of digital health data and their use and limitations in healthcare and research. It introduces national data governance frameworks, and discusses how these policies and principles apply within institutions and organisations that use healthcare data. It takes a deep dive into the Australian Electronic Health Record journey and what has been learned from these experiences. It discusses the impact of digital health on consumers, as well as introducing current and future digital health innovations that will continue to shape how healthcare evolves. This unit is aimed at clinicians and researchers working in healthcare and related research areas who wish to improve their understanding and experience in managing digital health.
People and change
Unit Code: MGO5100
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts, and frameworks for understanding the practice of organisational change. The unit explores planned and unplanned change in depth, by exploring the benefits, challenges, and opportunities associated with both approaches to change. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based application which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management, and incorporate new learning about change processes and outcomes, to help employees, managers, and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Sustainability and performance in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5110
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores workforce sustainability and performance in contemporary human resource management. It provides relevant theories and frameworks to understand how organisations can sustainably engage with people in times of uncertainty and change. Students will gain knowledge and skills to develop their capacities to become innovative future-ready managers who are able to reflect on current and emerging human resource challenges and opportunities and apply people management knowledge to complex organisational issues to contribute to workforce sustainability and performance.
Ethics and legal issues in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5120
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces key concepts and frameworks for understanding legal and ethical context in human resource management. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based applications which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary legal and ethical challenges and apply new learning in uncertain times.
Diversity and Inclusion
Unit Code: MGO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts and frameworks for understanding the scope of workplace diversity and inclusion. It presents the case for diversity and inclusion, including the benefits, challenges and opportunities.
The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management and incorporate new learning about the contribution of diversity and inclusion to help employees and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the case for and challenges of workplace diversity and inclusion to meet individual and organisational needs
- Evaluate a range of debates, approaches, frameworks and research to guide the implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies to create diverse and inclusive workplaces.
Marketing principles in a digital world
Unit Code: MKO5916
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Marketing principles in a digital world examines the concepts and theories of marketing and applies them within a digital context. The unit will explore developing a marketing orientation through value, whilst understanding consumer behaviour in a digital world. The role of marketing in the creation of value for stakeholders, together with using contemporary tools to understand consumers and their needs will be a key focus. Product development in a digital world, creating value through pricing and capturing value through distribution will also be analysed. Strategic marketing tools to design and implement effective competitive strategies will be appraised and selected to create value through marketing ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
Social media marketing
Unit Code: MKO5601
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The social media landscape will be investigated in terms of the tools and technologies, as well as consumers and communities. Approaches to understanding customers and stakeholders through the use of social media will be explored, and various strategies to engage with these stakeholders will be developed. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding trends and changes in consumer behaviour as a result of social media, including examining why and how certain ideas spread and how businesses can meet the needs and wants of consumers through the social media landscape.
Integrated marketing communications
Unit Code: MKO5926
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Integrated marketing communications utilises industry based and theoretical frameworks and processes to prepare an integrated marketing communications plan. The plan will focus on realistic integrated marketing communication objectives and targeting, demonstrating the use of individual and integrated strategies. Tactics relating to marketing communications, message and media decisions will also be recommended and justified. Influences affecting the efficient achievement of integrated marketing communication objectives including budget, resource allocation, project management and environmental pressures will be evaluated. Broader marketing communication industry issues, offering insight and analysis based on research will be assessed, taking into account ethics and measurement.
Digital marketing
Unit Code: MKO5881
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Digital marketing takes traditional views of marketing and exposes them to critical analysis in the light of technological change. It explores how marketers can utilise different ways of understanding, creating, communicating and delivering customer value in the marketplace.
The organisational context of project development
Unit Code: OPO5900
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the internal and external organisational context in which projects are conceived, evaluated, supported, and delivered. In evaluation of a business case for project initiation, you will critically analyse and apply strategy-related insights in the broad and immediate competitive environment. The unit emphasises engagement with project stakeholders, and the impact organisational structure, culture, politics has on these activities.
The dynamic context of project delivery
Unit Code: OPO5901
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the dynamic context of project delivery. The unit will emphasise the role that project leaders play in managing capabilities, resources, and changing expectations with an emphasis on team composition and team dynamics. You will develop the ability to critically analyse and apply insights regarding the professional standards and project performance criteria of project delivery.
The planning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5902
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the planning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the planning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
The learning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5903
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the learning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the learning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
Health systems and policy
Unit Code: MPH5301
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Foundations of health promotion
Unit Code: MPH5306
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces you to key principles of health promotion. You will examine health promotion frameworks and theories that are used to promote health at a population level to compliment and contrast individual treatment. You will examine the values and principles that guide contemporary health promotion and its capacity to influence the determinants of health. You will also develop an understanding of needs assessment, priority setting, using evidence and theory to make intervention choices and program evaluation. The roles played by partnerships, capacity building and participation will be explored, and the steps toward improving program sustainability are examined.
Occupational health and safety
Unit Code: MPH5309
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The way we work is changing, as new technology and working patterns continue to emerge. ‘Occupational health and safety’ contextualises OHS in its contemporary context. You will gain knowledge of a range of topics, including: the institutional and human cost of occupational disease and injury, occupational health and safety law, frameworks for primary prevention, workers’ compensation systems, occupational rehabilitation, case studies highlighting historical achievements and challenges, international and national occupational health and safety (OHS) organizations.
Foundations in public health
Unit Code: MPH5313
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Foundations in public health’ you will examine the foundational aspects of public health, with a focus on contemporary challenges. You will apply this knowledge to critically appraise initiatives that address complex health issues from a public health perspective, and will have the opportunity to engage with current public health issues and communicate their ideas clearly and effectively.
Managing digital health
Unit Code: MPH5319
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
MPH5319 Managing Digital Health provides a solid understanding of the current digital health environment in Australia (and internationally) including examples of large-scale digital health initiatives. It explores the different types of digital health data and their use and limitations in healthcare and research. It introduces national data governance frameworks, and discusses how these policies and principles apply within institutions and organisations that use healthcare data. It takes a deep dive into the Australian Electronic Health Record journey and what has been learned from these experiences. It discusses the impact of digital health on consumers, as well as introducing current and future digital health innovations that will continue to shape how healthcare evolves. This unit is aimed at clinicians and researchers working in healthcare and related research areas who wish to improve their understanding and experience in managing digital health.
Social enterprise
Unit Code: LEO5105
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
An enterprise can undertake their mission and purpose while doing good. This unit explores social enterprise in the context of the local/global challenges. Social entrepreneurship has emerged over the past several decades as a way to identify and bring about potentially transformative societal change.
The purpose of this unit is to examine and debate the critical role of the social enterprise and entrepreneurship. The unit will examine key elements involved in entrepreneurial leadership for social good.
Models of the social enterprise and entrepreneurship will be introduced and critically evaluated in context of the local/global challenges they aim to address.
Learning Objectives
- Evaluate and demonstrate an advanced understanding of the fundamental concepts, frameworks and processes underlying social entrepreneurship
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding and application of the role of social entrepreneurship
- Evaluate and analyse challenges and opportunities in social entrepreneurship
- Explore and understand the business models in social entrepreneurship.
Governance, continuity and crisis management
Unit Code: LEO5106
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Responding to failures in corporate responsibility and an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, means that stakeholders require new standards for effective organisation governance.
With a focus on complex and dynamic settings, this unit integrates lessons from of a broad range of established governance practice and theory, with specific contemporary issues: e.g. financial and non-financial risk, crisis response planning, diverse and inclusive organisational practices, cybersecurity, crisis management, and social licence to operate.
The unit provides participants with an opportunity to deepen their learning and build a portfolio of successful projects.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding and application of governance theory, methods, tools and frameworks
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise and evaluate technological advances and changes in the economic, political, social and environmental context to the contemporary practice of governance, business continuity and crisis management
Diversity and Inclusion
Unit Code: MGO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts and frameworks for understanding the scope of workplace diversity and inclusion. It presents the case for diversity and inclusion, including the benefits, challenges and opportunities.
The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management and incorporate new learning about the contribution of diversity and inclusion to help employees and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the case for and challenges of workplace diversity and inclusion to meet individual and organisational needs
- Evaluate a range of debates, approaches, frameworks and research to guide the implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies to create diverse and inclusive workplaces.
The sustainable enterprise
Unit Code: LEO5102
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Sustainability is a growing concern internationally and a strategic priority for leading enterprises in every sector. As such, enterprises have unprecedented opportunities to adopt responsible practices, lead in sustainable development and take progressive positions on today’s global challenges: e.g. climate change, thriving communities and geopolitical security.
It’s entirely possible to run an enterprise that prioritises the wellbeing of employees, the community and the environment – all without sacrificing profitability. Sustainability has emerged as a core competency for enterprise and society.
This unit explores how enterprise can meet the needs of present and future stakeholders to operate both profitably and sustainably whilst accelerating societal change, the economy and the preservation of environmental integrity.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the relationships between sustainability, government policies and enterprise strategies
- Demonstrate the ability to develop and communicate a business case for sustainability
- Gain familiarity with the conceptual frameworks and practical tools to apply sustainability in an enterprise setting.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
People and change
Unit Code: MGO5100
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts, and frameworks for understanding the practice of organisational change. The unit explores planned and unplanned change in depth, by exploring the benefits, challenges, and opportunities associated with both approaches to change. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based application which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management, and incorporate new learning about change processes and outcomes, to help employees, managers, and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Sustainability and performance in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5110
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores workforce sustainability and performance in contemporary human resource management. It provides relevant theories and frameworks to understand how organisations can sustainably engage with people in times of uncertainty and change. Students will gain knowledge and skills to develop their capacities to become innovative future-ready managers who are able to reflect on current and emerging human resource challenges and opportunities and apply people management knowledge to complex organisational issues to contribute to workforce sustainability and performance.
Ethics and legal issues in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5120
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces key concepts and frameworks for understanding legal and ethical context in human resource management. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based applications which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary legal and ethical challenges and apply new learning in uncertain times.
Diversity and Inclusion
Unit Code: MGO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts and frameworks for understanding the scope of workplace diversity and inclusion. It presents the case for diversity and inclusion, including the benefits, challenges and opportunities.
The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management and incorporate new learning about the contribution of diversity and inclusion to help employees and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the case for and challenges of workplace diversity and inclusion to meet individual and organisational needs
- Evaluate a range of debates, approaches, frameworks and research to guide the implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies to create diverse and inclusive workplaces.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
Collaborative and reproducible practices
Unit Code: ETO5513
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Collaborative and reproducible practices’ aims to enhance your teamwork skills to create reproducible data analyses. You will learn how to work effectively with a group to construct a collaborative data story. These skills are practised in a team setting data analysis group project.
Data and analytics in organisations and society
Unit Code: LEO5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Businesses have large amounts of data about customers and operations that require skilled analysts to interpret. In ‘Data visualisation and analytics’ you will learn how to use data visualisation to analyse datasets. This unit will include examples from marketing, finance, economics and related disciplines to give you a wide range of experience.
Introduction to accounting analytics
Unit Code: ACO5160
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to accounting analytics’ combines accounting and data analytics that are integral to decision making. You will learn how to identify questions, download data, perform testing and communicate your results. You will gain the skills to compare different analytical tools to determine which one is best suited for each problem.
Predictive analytics in business
Unit Code: ACO5170
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Predictive analytics in business’ introduces you to Big Data and predictive analytics using financial information. You will learn hands-on skills to manage large-scale financial databases and build predictive models that support strategic and investment decision making. The unit will introduce you to SQL coding and develop your skills in SAS statistics software.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
Data analytics in communications
Unit Code: APG5193
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit, students acquire skills in gathering, analysing and visualising digital data to gain a better understanding of audience sentiment, behaviour and engagement. Drawing on case studies and practical research, students understand the value of data analytics in informing communication strategies. Students also engage with the ethical and legal concerns at the heart of public debates relating to the collection and use of ‘big data’
Principles of global communications
Unit Code: APG5191
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit will develop foundation knowledge and skills in the field of global communications at graduate level. Particular focus is given to understanding the critical roles played by communications fields and industries across diverse sectors including politics, government, business and everyday society. These roles are further explored in the context of the complexities posed by a world of digitalisation and globalisation.
Strategic communications in a digital era
Unit Code: APG5192
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Strategic communication in a digital era further explores broad debates in the core concepts and theories of strategic communication across public, private and non-government sectors in a global context. In today’s societal world anyone from politicians, to business leaders, to environmental and human rights groups, as examples, lean to the fields of communications and media to advance their strategic aims and goals. Sources, strategies and ethics will be further analysed together with a particular emphasis on the complexities of new social movements and communication for development. These distinct ethical considerations are critical to professional communications in a digital era.
Marketing principles in a digital world
Unit Code: MKO5916
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Marketing principles in a digital world examines the concepts and theories of marketing and applies them within a digital context. The unit will explore developing a marketing orientation through value, whilst understanding consumer behaviour in a digital world. The role of marketing in the creation of value for stakeholders, together with using contemporary tools to understand consumers and their needs will be a key focus. Product development in a digital world, creating value through pricing and capturing value through distribution will also be analysed. Strategic marketing tools to design and implement effective competitive strategies will be appraised and selected to create value through marketing ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
Marketing principles in a digital world
Unit Code: MKO5916
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Marketing principles in a digital world examines the concepts and theories of marketing and applies them within a digital context. The unit will explore developing a marketing orientation through value, whilst understanding consumer behaviour in a digital world. The role of marketing in the creation of value for stakeholders, together with using contemporary tools to understand consumers and their needs will be a key focus. Product development in a digital world, creating value through pricing and capturing value through distribution will also be analysed. Strategic marketing tools to design and implement effective competitive strategies will be appraised and selected to create value through marketing ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
Integrated marketing communications
Unit Code: MKO5926
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Integrated marketing communications utilises industry based and theoretical frameworks and processes to prepare an integrated marketing communications plan. The plan will focus on realistic integrated marketing communication objectives and targeting, demonstrating the use of individual and integrated strategies. Tactics relating to marketing communications, message and media decisions will also be recommended and justified. Influences affecting the efficient achievement of integrated marketing communication objectives including budget, resource allocation, project management and environmental pressures will be evaluated. Broader marketing communication industry issues, offering insight and analysis based on research will be assessed, taking into account ethics and measurement.
Digital marketing
Unit Code: MKO5881
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Digital marketing takes traditional views of marketing and exposes them to critical analysis in the light of technological change. It explores how marketers can utilise different ways of understanding, creating, communicating and delivering customer value in the marketplace.
Social media marketing
Unit Code: MKO5601
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The social media landscape will be investigated in terms of the tools and technologies, as well as consumers and communities. Approaches to understanding customers and stakeholders through the use of social media will be explored, and various strategies to engage with these stakeholders will be developed. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding trends and changes in consumer behaviour as a result of social media, including examining why and how certain ideas spread and how businesses can meet the needs and wants of consumers through the social media landscape.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
Health systems and policy
Unit Code: MPH5301
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Developing health systems
Unit Code: MPH5308
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Health systems, whether in developing or developed countries, must continually adapt to emerging challenges, which is why health sector reform is an ongoing process. ‘Developing health systems’ contextualises these challenges. By assessing a recent case study of health care reform, you will have the opportunity to explore alternative conceptual frameworks for analysing health care systems, with an emphasis on the “control knobs framework”, which describes the key levers of a health care system, and how these levers work to influence outcomes of interest such as equity, cost, financial risk protection and quality of care.
Healthcare and financial management
Unit Code: MPH5318
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The provision of effective healthcare is an essential component of contemporary society. As the average life expectancy increases, so does the expectations and demand of healthcare. These community expectations on healthcare delivery and demand have greater financial costs. Coupled with advances in health technology result in challenging social and financial implications. Students in this unit will examine the basic accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and financial business planning concepts applicable to the healthcare sector. Learners will examine and apply how such principles and techniques are used by healthcare professionals to aid strategic, operational and service delivery decision making.
Healthcare improvement and learning systems
Unit Code: MPH5316
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Health care improvement science is crucial for translating new knowledge into practice and delivering the best possible patient care. ‘Healthcare improvement and learning systems’ provides students with the skills and knowledge to develop and implement health care improvement projects in clinical settings and develop solutions for gaps in health care through considered data management and stakeholder engagement. You will learn about translating and mobilising new knowledge and engage with community and service users to conduct healthcare improvement projects and lead innovation, while exploring key concepts that include change management strategies, strategies to enable knowledge sharing, data collection, and managing information systems.
Healthcare and economic management
Unit Code: MPH5317
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Healthcare and economic management’ explores the complexities of care delivery in the evolving world of health services. Healthcare delivery and funding are intertwined, which means that fluency in health economics is essential. In this unit, students will explore concepts of resource allocation and analyse and compare funding for competing health needs. It will also include critical analysis of the impact of innovation and how this is incorporated into current health care funding.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
Social enterprise
Unit Code: LEO5105
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
An enterprise can undertake their mission and purpose while doing good. This unit explores social enterprise in the context of the local/global challenges. Social entrepreneurship has emerged over the past several decades as a way to identify and bring about potentially transformative societal change.
The purpose of this unit is to examine and debate the critical role of the social enterprise and entrepreneurship. The unit will examine key elements involved in entrepreneurial leadership for social good.
Models of the social enterprise and entrepreneurship will be introduced and critically evaluated in context of the local/global challenges they aim to address.
Learning Objectives
- Evaluate and demonstrate an advanced understanding of the fundamental concepts, frameworks and processes underlying social entrepreneurship
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding and application of the role of social entrepreneurship
- Evaluate and analyse challenges and opportunities in social entrepreneurship
- Explore and understand the business models in social entrepreneurship.
Governance, continuity and crisis management
Unit Code: LEO5106
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Responding to failures in corporate responsibility and an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, means that stakeholders require new standards for effective organisation governance.
With a focus on complex and dynamic settings, this unit integrates lessons from of a broad range of established governance practice and theory, with specific contemporary issues: e.g. financial and non-financial risk, crisis response planning, diverse and inclusive organisational practices, cybersecurity, crisis management, and social licence to operate.
The unit provides participants with an opportunity to deepen their learning and build a portfolio of successful projects.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding and application of governance theory, methods, tools and frameworks
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise and evaluate technological advances and changes in the economic, political, social and environmental context to the contemporary practice of governance, business continuity and crisis management
Diversity and Inclusion
Unit Code: MGO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts and frameworks for understanding the scope of workplace diversity and inclusion. It presents the case for diversity and inclusion, including the benefits, challenges and opportunities.
The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management and incorporate new learning about the contribution of diversity and inclusion to help employees and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the case for and challenges of workplace diversity and inclusion to meet individual and organisational needs
- Evaluate a range of debates, approaches, frameworks and research to guide the implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies to create diverse and inclusive workplaces.
The sustainable enterprise
Unit Code: LEO5102
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Sustainability is a growing concern internationally and a strategic priority for leading enterprises in every sector. As such, enterprises have unprecedented opportunities to adopt responsible practices, lead in sustainable development and take progressive positions on today’s global challenges: e.g. climate change, thriving communities and geopolitical security.
It’s entirely possible to run an enterprise that prioritises the wellbeing of employees, the community and the environment – all without sacrificing profitability. Sustainability has emerged as a core competency for enterprise and society.
This unit explores how enterprise can meet the needs of present and future stakeholders to operate both profitably and sustainably whilst accelerating societal change, the economy and the preservation of environmental integrity.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the relationships between sustainability, government policies and enterprise strategies
- Demonstrate the ability to develop and communicate a business case for sustainability
- Gain familiarity with the conceptual frameworks and practical tools to apply sustainability in an enterprise setting.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
The digital enterprise
Unit Code: LEO5103
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Organisations around the world enjoy increasing opportunities to embrace the ever-expanding capabilities of a digital enterprise. Digital enterprises promote a culture of excellence dedicated to the realisation of an overarching digital strategy, taking full advantage of data-centric organisational processes and unique ecosystems of integrated production and service delivery platforms. In this unit, you will come to understand the characteristics of a digital enterprise and how they can be realised through digital transformation. You will also think critically about how digital enterprises are uniquely positioned to lead positive change through the practices they employ for sustainable development and the positions they take on today’s global challenges. Learning Objectives- Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and dimensions of a digital enterprise and the underlying process of digital transformation
- Identify and critically evaluate how digital enterprises can lead positive change in sustainable development and global challenges.
Enterprise analytics
Unit Code: LEO5104
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The modern organisation generates a significant amount of data that is used to enhance decision making and improve ESG (environmental, social, governance) performance. Implementing analytics across an enterprise should establish a data-driven environment using the right tools and platforms to convert data into meaningful information for the right end users.
This unit explores how contemporary business intelligence, data analytics and reporting capabilities (e.g., Excel, Power BI, Tableau) can be used effectively to communicate actionable insights to stakeholders. You will consider the strategic and technical considerations of designing, delivering and utilising a successful enterprise analytics solution for today’s global challenges.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the strategies and challenges of implementing an enterprise analytics solution
- Recognise the types of data analytics in an organisation and how these can inform decision making and address business problems
- Develop and understand data storytelling skills combined with analytical resources to foster a data-driven enterprise
- Identify and critically evaluate the frameworks, tools and applications that can be used in an enterprise setting to deliver actionable reporting and insights.
Innovation and change for digital transformation
Unit Code: LEO5109
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
If people lack the right mindset to change and the current organisational practices are flawed, digital transformation will simply magnify those flaws. Digitalisation can be thought of as the use of digital technologies, platforms, systems and methods to change business models, create new products and services and introduce new ways of generating value. Design thinking, business model canvas, customer experience mapping and agile implementation will be built upon in order to explore the application of innovation approaches for digital transformation.
Dimensions of digital technology
Unit Code: LAW5801
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The digital revolution of the 21st century requires the law to evolve rapidly and in ways never thought of previously. This unit will provide you with technical knowledge of some of the fundamental aspects of the digital world and how those technologies intersect with the law. You will examine key technologies and systems, for example, data collection and sharing, networks, automated decision-making, machine learning, artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies. You will consider the operation of those technologies in light of existing legal principles and regulatory frameworks and how these can be re-interpreted for the digital context. Learning objectives- Demonstrate an understanding of the range of digital mechanisms and practices that are used in Australia and internationally, including data networks and systems, automated decision making, algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies
- Critically analyse the way in which those digital technologies are designed, implemented and regulated
- Synthesise information from a broad range of relevant sources to critically evaluate legal and ethical issues arising from a range of technologies, innovations and processes
- Apply professional judgement to interpret legal conclusions and justify a considered opinion on case studies relevant to the application of digital technologies
- Apply technical and legal knowledge to analyse the way in which future technological directions may develop and how these should be regulated by law.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
Health systems and policy
Unit Code: MPH5301
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Foundations of health promotion
Unit Code: MPH5306
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces you to key principles of health promotion. You will examine health promotion frameworks and theories that are used to promote health at a population level to compliment and contrast individual treatment. You will examine the values and principles that guide contemporary health promotion and its capacity to influence the determinants of health. You will also develop an understanding of needs assessment, priority setting, using evidence and theory to make intervention choices and program evaluation. The roles played by partnerships, capacity building and participation will be explored, and the steps toward improving program sustainability are examined.
Occupational health and safety
Unit Code: MPH5309
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The way we work is changing, as new technology and working patterns continue to emerge. ‘Occupational health and safety’ contextualises OHS in its contemporary context. You will gain knowledge of a range of topics, including: the institutional and human cost of occupational disease and injury, occupational health and safety law, frameworks for primary prevention, workers’ compensation systems, occupational rehabilitation, case studies highlighting historical achievements and challenges, international and national occupational health and safety (OHS) organizations.
Foundations in public health
Unit Code: MPH5313
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Foundations in public health’ you will examine the foundational aspects of public health, with a focus on contemporary challenges. You will apply this knowledge to critically appraise initiatives that address complex health issues from a public health perspective, and will have the opportunity to engage with current public health issues and communicate their ideas clearly and effectively.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
The rise of project-based organisations
Unit Code: OPO5000
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The unit explores the rise of an emerging organisational form—the project-based organisation. It addresses the environmental forces that give rise to project-based organisations and the requisite governance systems required to coordinate across projects, programs and portfolios, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and the creation of value for the organisation. Leadership theories and the competencies of project leadership, which are required to support effective governance when managing projects, are also reviewed.
The project as a social system
Unit Code: OPO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores projects as primarily social constructs, where sense-making and adaptive behaviours are required to accommodate local contexts, dynamics, and personal attributes. The perception of projects as a process is critically examined and challenged with concepts from systems thinking. Cultural and political practices are explored to develop an understanding of the interrelationships between various elements of a project, and the environment in which they are executed.
Project management for organisational innovation
Unit Code: OPO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Project managers require a range of techniques to deal with projects that may be volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. This unit will explore the need for project managers to develop bespoke approaches which address the unique requirements of innovation-driven projects. With a focus on design thinking, you will evaluate the requirements of a specific (disruptive) innovation and propose a unique project design to achieve the organisation’s goals.
Managing project knowledge
Unit Code: OPO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The unit explores the role of knowledge networks in project delivery. It focuses on developing an understanding of how project managers acquire and exchange knowledge, and how this knowledge impacts their projects. The unit incorporates concepts and theories from various disciplines aligned to project management and knowledge management but takes the next step of what is arguably the end goal of our knowledge management system, the application and use of the knowledge we have.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
The organisational context of project development
Unit Code: OPO5900
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the internal and external organisational context in which projects are conceived, evaluated, supported, and delivered. In evaluation of a business case for project initiation, you will critically analyse and apply strategy-related insights in the broad and immediate competitive environment. The unit emphasises engagement with project stakeholders, and the impact organisational structure, culture, politics has on these activities.
The dynamic context of project delivery
Unit Code: OPO5901
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the dynamic context of project delivery. The unit will emphasise the role that project leaders play in managing capabilities, resources, and changing expectations with an emphasis on team composition and team dynamics. You will develop the ability to critically analyse and apply insights regarding the professional standards and project performance criteria of project delivery.
The planning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5902
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the planning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the planning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
The learning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5903
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the learning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the learning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity therefore you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Educational design
Unit Code: EDF5768
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Effective educational designers instinctively use a broad range of theories, frameworks, models and principles in the design process. ‘Educational design’ provides this foundational knowledge. You will explore the design of online and blended education, assessment and feedback, and delve into ethics, accessibility and equity. ‘Educational design’ is for current and prospective education, learning and instructional designers who are grappling with how best to design, facilitate and assess the use of educational technologies in teaching and learning settings.
Designing digital content
Unit Code: EDF5769
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Effective learning experiences require the careful design of digital content including text, image, audio, video, animation, simulation, games, and even augmented and virtual realities. In this unit you will explore theories, models, practical strategies and learn skills to enable you to design effectively when working with written content, images, video and other media. There will be opportunities to investigate new platforms and media, including learning management systems, social media and mobile devices. You will also explore essential knowledge of regulatory and ethical issues, such as intellectual property and copyright.
Designing for interaction and collaboration
Unit Code: EDF5770
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit equips you to understand how, when and why interactivity, collaboration and social learning can enhance learning experiences. You will explore theory, models, strategies and pedagogical approaches that can guide your designs and utilisation different technologies. This includes using discussion forums, online testing, simulation and collaborative environments ranging from cloud based documents through to immersive virtual worlds. Along the way you will become familiar with the challenges, dilemmas and risks, including those surrounding social media.
Innovations in technologies and pedagogical practices
Unit Code: EDF5772
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit the theoretical and the practical collide, as you examine the potential of emerging technologies and pedagogies that break the boundaries of traditional teaching and learning contexts to produce active learning experiences. You will develop critical thinking and synthesis skills that can be used when considering the potential affordances of technologies along with their limitations.
Health systems and policy
Unit Code: MPH5301
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Epidemiology of infectious diseases
Unit Code: MPH5303
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Epidemiology of infectious diseases’ foregrounds the importance of understanding host, environmental, pathogen and transmission factors, and covers a range of topics, including: the dynamic nature of infections, the principles of infectious diseases, identification and management of outbreaks and principles of surveillance. You will investigate practical examples that highlight major concepts, complete set readings, and participate in online activities and discussion forums to enhance your understanding of the teaching material.
Leading and managing in public health and healthcare
Unit Code: MPH5304
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Leading and managing in public health and healthcare’ will review key leadership, management, and organisation theory and its application within health care settings. You will learn about the role of the manager, leadership skills, staffing issues, clinician engagement, performance management, career management, change management, project management and structuring organisations for patient care.
Epidemiology: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5305
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Epidemiology is a vital field of study within the health care sector, helping us better understand the occurrence and distribution of health events affecting large populations. In ‘Epidemiology: concepts and applications’ you will explore a range of topics essential to parsing epidemiological data and research, including: rates, sources of data, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, critical appraisal of literature, screening, prevention, exposure assessment, outbreak investigation, confounding and bias. Students are expected to be competent at mathematics to a year 7 level
Occupational health and safety
Unit Code: MPH5309
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The way we work is changing, as new technology and working patterns continue to emerge. ‘Occupational health and safety’ contextualises OHS in its contemporary context. You will gain knowledge of a range of topics, including: the institutional and human cost of occupational disease and injury, occupational health and safety law, frameworks for primary prevention, workers’ compensation systems, occupational rehabilitation, case studies highlighting historical achievements and challenges, international and national occupational health and safety (OHS) organizations.
Introduction to environmental and planetary health
Unit Code: MPH5310
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Introduction to environmental and planetary health’ you will examine the impact of physical, chemical and biological hazards in the environment, and integrate this knowledge with principles of assessment, management and the control of environmental health risks. You will go on to develop your understanding of theoretical risk communication, and apply this knowledge in developing evidence based interventions to control and prevent environmental risks.
Foundations in public health
Unit Code: MPH5313
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Foundations in public health’ you will examine the foundational aspects of public health, with a focus on contemporary challenges. You will apply this knowledge to critically appraise initiatives that address complex health issues from a public health perspective, and will have the opportunity to engage with current public health issues and communicate their ideas clearly and effectively.
Epidemiology of chronic disease
Unit Code: MPH5314
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Epidemiology of chronic disease’ you will gain a broad overview of strategies for chronic disease prevention and control, and current epidemiological challenges currently impacting Australia. You will cover a range of specialised topics, including: measurement of disease and burden of disease; concept of risk factors and risk factors for important chronic diseases; the effect of social and economic factors on the epidemiology of chronic diseases; the impact of chronic diseases on society and the economy. Another core focus will be the impact of screening and health promotion as public health tools, along with use of evidence in public health programs to prevent chronic diseases.
Foundations of health promotion
Unit Code: MPH5306
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces you to key principles of health promotion. You will examine health promotion frameworks and theories that are used to promote health at a population level to compliment and contrast individual treatment. You will examine the values and principles that guide contemporary health promotion and its capacity to influence the determinants of health. You will also develop an understanding of needs assessment, priority setting, using evidence and theory to make intervention choices and program evaluation. The roles played by partnerships, capacity building and participation will be explored, and the steps toward improving program sustainability are examined.
Research methods in healthcare
Unit Code: MPH5320
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours per week
Description:
This unit introduces research methods used in quantitative and qualitative studies in health research. The unit will cover concepts including how to construct an answerable question, searching the literature, sampling methods, data collection and study design – including both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Managing digital health
Unit Code: MPH5319
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
MPH5319 Managing Digital Health provides a solid understanding of the current digital health environment in Australia (and internationally) including examples of large-scale digital health initiatives. It explores the different types of digital health data and their use and limitations in healthcare and research. It introduces national data governance frameworks, and discusses how these policies and principles apply within institutions and organisations that use healthcare data. It takes a deep dive into the Australian Electronic Health Record journey and what has been learned from these experiences. It discusses the impact of digital health on consumers, as well as introducing current and future digital health innovations that will continue to shape how healthcare evolves. This unit is aimed at clinicians and researchers working in healthcare and related research areas who wish to improve their understanding and experience in managing digital health.
Health systems and policy
Unit Code: MPH5301
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Leading and managing in public health and healthcare
Unit Code: MPH5304
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Leading and managing in public health and healthcare’ will review key leadership, management, and organisation theory and its application within health care settings. You will learn about the role of the manager, leadership skills, staffing issues, clinician engagement, performance management, career management, change management, project management and structuring organisations for patient care.
Epidemiology: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5305
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Epidemiology is a vital field of study within the health care sector, helping us better understand the occurrence and distribution of health events affecting large populations. In ‘Epidemiology: concepts and applications’ you will explore a range of topics essential to parsing epidemiological data and research, including: rates, sources of data, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, critical appraisal of literature, screening, prevention, exposure assessment, outbreak investigation, confounding and bias. Students are expected to be competent at mathematics to a year 7 level
Developing health systems
Unit Code: MPH5308
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Health systems, whether in developing or developed countries, must continually adapt to emerging challenges, which is why health sector reform is an ongoing process. ‘Developing health systems’ contextualises these challenges. By assessing a recent case study of health care reform, you will have the opportunity to explore alternative conceptual frameworks for analysing health care systems, with an emphasis on the “control knobs framework”, which describes the key levers of a health care system, and how these levers work to influence outcomes of interest such as equity, cost, financial risk protection and quality of care.
Safety and quality in healthcare
Unit Code: MPH5311
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Safety and quality in healthcare’ investigates the historical, political and social factors that inform quality measurement in health care. Through use of epidemiological and statistical quality measurement principles, you will examine the relationship of industrial and healthcare quality monitoring, as well as the strengths and limitations of current monitoring techniques. With an understanding of clinical indicator programs, adverse event monitoring, satisfaction surveys and benchmarking, you will discover how quality improvement programs can be designed and implemented to substantially approve healthcare quality.
Introduction to management
Unit Code: MPH5315
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to management’ introduces core management concepts, contextualised within the specific needs of health care services. You will learn about the current challenges facing managers in the dynamic health care industry, and explore topics including: the role of the individual, the importance of teamwork, team culture, conflict management, effective decision making and ethical considerations. You will participate in a variety of activities, including interactive case studies, and have the opportunity to apply theory to ‘real’ world examples through group presentations.
Healthcare improvement and learning systems
Unit Code: MPH5316
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Health care improvement science is crucial for translating new knowledge into practice and delivering the best possible patient care. ‘Healthcare improvement and learning systems’ provides students with the skills and knowledge to develop and implement health care improvement projects in clinical settings and develop solutions for gaps in health care through considered data management and stakeholder engagement. You will learn about translating and mobilising new knowledge and engage with community and service users to conduct healthcare improvement projects and lead innovation, while exploring key concepts that include change management strategies, strategies to enable knowledge sharing, data collection, and managing information systems.
Healthcare and economic management
Unit Code: MPH5317
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Healthcare and economic management’ explores the complexities of care delivery in the evolving world of health services. Healthcare delivery and funding are intertwined, which means that fluency in health economics is essential. In this unit, students will explore concepts of resource allocation and analyse and compare funding for competing health needs. It will also include critical analysis of the impact of innovation and how this is incorporated into current health care funding.
Healthcare and financial management
Unit Code: MPH5318
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The provision of effective healthcare is an essential component of contemporary society. As the average life expectancy increases, so does the expectations and demand of healthcare. These community expectations on healthcare delivery and demand have greater financial costs. Coupled with advances in health technology result in challenging social and financial implications. Students in this unit will examine the basic accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and financial business planning concepts applicable to the healthcare sector. Learners will examine and apply how such principles and techniques are used by healthcare professionals to aid strategic, operational and service delivery decision making.
Managing digital health
Unit Code: MPH5319
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
MPH5319 Managing Digital Health provides a solid understanding of the current digital health environment in Australia (and internationally) including examples of large-scale digital health initiatives. It explores the different types of digital health data and their use and limitations in healthcare and research. It introduces national data governance frameworks, and discusses how these policies and principles apply within institutions and organisations that use healthcare data. It takes a deep dive into the Australian Electronic Health Record journey and what has been learned from these experiences. It discusses the impact of digital health on consumers, as well as introducing current and future digital health innovations that will continue to shape how healthcare evolves. This unit is aimed at clinicians and researchers working in healthcare and related research areas who wish to improve their understanding and experience in managing digital health.
Introduction to health law principles
Contact Hours: 20
Description:
Review of legal principles related to health care; including common law principles and statutes. The focus is on key areas of medical and health law such as negligence, consent, privacy of health information, clinical research, abortion, euthanasia, mental health, infectious diseases, health complaints, ethics and human rights and law for health systems.
Epidemiology: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5305
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Epidemiology is a vital field of study within the health care sector, helping us better understand the occurrence and distribution of health events affecting large populations. In ‘Epidemiology: concepts and applications’ you will explore a range of topics essential to parsing epidemiological data and research, including: rates, sources of data, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, critical appraisal of literature, screening, prevention, exposure assessment, outbreak investigation, confounding and bias. Students are expected to be competent at mathematics to a year 7 level
Epidemiology of chronic disease
Unit Code: MPH5314
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Epidemiology of chronic disease’ you will gain a broad overview of strategies for chronic disease prevention and control, and current epidemiological challenges currently impacting Australia. You will cover a range of specialised topics, including: measurement of disease and burden of disease; concept of risk factors and risk factors for important chronic diseases; the effect of social and economic factors on the epidemiology of chronic diseases; the impact of chronic diseases on society and the economy. Another core focus will be the impact of screening and health promotion as public health tools, along with use of evidence in public health programs to prevent chronic diseases.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Research methods in healthcare
Unit Code: MPH5320
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours per week
Description:
This unit introduces research methods used in quantitative and qualitative studies in health research. The unit will cover concepts including how to construct an answerable question, searching the literature, sampling methods, data collection and study design – including both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Epidemiology: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5305
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Epidemiology is a vital field of study within the health care sector, helping us better understand the occurrence and distribution of health events affecting large populations. In ‘Epidemiology: concepts and applications’ you will explore a range of topics essential to parsing epidemiological data and research, including: rates, sources of data, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, critical appraisal of literature, screening, prevention, exposure assessment, outbreak investigation, confounding and bias. Students are expected to be competent at mathematics to a year 7 level
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Foundations in public health
Unit Code: MPH5313
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Foundations in public health’ you will examine the foundational aspects of public health, with a focus on contemporary challenges. You will apply this knowledge to critically appraise initiatives that address complex health issues from a public health perspective, and will have the opportunity to engage with current public health issues and communicate their ideas clearly and effectively.
Foundations of health promotion
Unit Code: MPH5306
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit introduces you to key principles of health promotion. You will examine health promotion frameworks and theories that are used to promote health at a population level to compliment and contrast individual treatment. You will examine the values and principles that guide contemporary health promotion and its capacity to influence the determinants of health. You will also develop an understanding of needs assessment, priority setting, using evidence and theory to make intervention choices and program evaluation. The roles played by partnerships, capacity building and participation will be explored, and the steps toward improving program sustainability are examined.
Health systems and policy
Unit Code: MPH5301
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.
Leading and managing in public health and healthcare
Unit Code: MPH5304
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Leading and managing in public health and healthcare’ will review key leadership, management, and organisation theory and its application within health care settings. You will learn about the role of the manager, leadership skills, staffing issues, clinician engagement, performance management, career management, change management, project management and structuring organisations for patient care.
Developing health systems
Unit Code: MPH5308
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Health systems, whether in developing or developed countries, must continually adapt to emerging challenges, which is why health sector reform is an ongoing process. ‘Developing health systems’ contextualises these challenges. By assessing a recent case study of health care reform, you will have the opportunity to explore alternative conceptual frameworks for analysing health care systems, with an emphasis on the “control knobs framework”, which describes the key levers of a health care system, and how these levers work to influence outcomes of interest such as equity, cost, financial risk protection and quality of care.
Safety and quality in healthcare
Unit Code: MPH5311
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Safety and quality in healthcare’ investigates the historical, political and social factors that inform quality measurement in health care. Through use of epidemiological and statistical quality measurement principles, you will examine the relationship of industrial and healthcare quality monitoring, as well as the strengths and limitations of current monitoring techniques. With an understanding of clinical indicator programs, adverse event monitoring, satisfaction surveys and benchmarking, you will discover how quality improvement programs can be designed and implemented to substantially approve healthcare quality.
Healthcare and financial management
Unit Code: MPH5318
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The provision of effective healthcare is an essential component of contemporary society. As the average life expectancy increases, so does the expectations and demand of healthcare. These community expectations on healthcare delivery and demand have greater financial costs. Coupled with advances in health technology result in challenging social and financial implications. Students in this unit will examine the basic accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and financial business planning concepts applicable to the healthcare sector. Learners will examine and apply how such principles and techniques are used by healthcare professionals to aid strategic, operational and service delivery decision making.
Introduction to health law principles
Contact Hours: 20
Description:
Review of legal principles related to health care; including common law principles and statutes. The focus is on key areas of medical and health law such as negligence, consent, privacy of health information, clinical research, abortion, euthanasia, mental health, infectious diseases, health complaints, ethics and human rights and law for health systems.
Epidemiology: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5305
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Epidemiology is a vital field of study within the health care sector, helping us better understand the occurrence and distribution of health events affecting large populations. In ‘Epidemiology: concepts and applications’ you will explore a range of topics essential to parsing epidemiological data and research, including: rates, sources of data, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, critical appraisal of literature, screening, prevention, exposure assessment, outbreak investigation, confounding and bias. Students are expected to be competent at mathematics to a year 7 level
Research methods in healthcare
Unit Code: MPH5320
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours per week
Description:
This unit introduces research methods used in quantitative and qualitative studies in health research. The unit will cover concepts including how to construct an answerable question, searching the literature, sampling methods, data collection and study design – including both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Foundations in public health
Unit Code: MPH5313
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Foundations in public health’ you will examine the foundational aspects of public health, with a focus on contemporary challenges. You will apply this knowledge to critically appraise initiatives that address complex health issues from a public health perspective, and will have the opportunity to engage with current public health issues and communicate their ideas clearly and effectively.
Architecture and networks
Unit Code: ITO4137
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A strong foundational knowledge of computer systems is at the core of computer science. ‘Architecture and networks’ focuses specifically on modern operating systems and networking technology. The unit covers CPU, memory, storage, operating systems and the basic concepts of computer and network security.
Introduction to databases
Unit Code: ITO4132
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Database management systems are integral to the success of organisations. ‘Introduction to databases’ serves as a thorough introduction to database management, built upon a theoretical foundational of relational modelling, analysis and design. You will learn all about the core principles of sound database design, and how to implement relational databases by employing an SQL approach.
Java programming
Unit Code: ITO4131
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Java programming’ you will learn the basic concepts involved in the development of well-structured software using programming language. You will gain practical experience in program design and implementation of that design into programming language. This unit focuses on developing your problem solving skills and understanding new and existing code.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Foundations of computing
Unit Code: ITO4001
Description:
Mathematics and Computer Science cannot be untangled. Most of the problems found in computer science are often formalized and solved with mathematical foundations. Many important problems addressed by computer scientists need the skills in logical thinking, algebraic operations, probability theory and statistical tests and optimization techniques. This unit is designed to explore various mathematical methods required to work in the area of computer science. You will learn the fundamental concepts in tree and graph data structures, set theory and logic which include predicate and propositional logic, probability and statistics as well as linear algebra, data encoding and calculus. While learning the fundamentals, the unit offers a variety of problem solving activities concentrating on areas where mathematical foundations pave a path to computing problems. It offers an opportunity to understand how to solve computer science problems using mathematical foundations that are relevant to the program the students follow.
Fundamentals of artificial intelligence
Unit Code: ITO5047
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Fundamentals of artificial intelligence’ interrogates core problems and approaches to designing intelligent software systems. You will cover automated search methods, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, and reasoning under uncertainty. This unit will teach you how to explain, evaluate and apply appropriate AI theories, models and techniques into practice.
Software engineering
Unit Code: ITO5136
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Software engineering’ allows you to put your existing programming skills to practice. You will be introduced to software engineering at the postgraduate level, with an emphasis on understanding and solving a wide range of software development problems. This unit will teach you how to identify and describe the software life cycle and its various models.
Information and computer security
Unit Code: ITO5163
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Security systems must constantly evolve to keep pace with our rapidly changing world. In ‘Information and computer security’ you will be taught techniques to solve security problems in information systems. You will gain experience in a range of security applications and learn how to effectively solve difficult coding issues.
Web applications development
Unit Code: ITO5032
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Web applications development’ provides you with the knowledge, understanding and skills to develop an application system. This unit will focus on mastering key concepts and the basic knowledge and skills required to build applications. You will learn of a wide range of technologies and examine a small number of them to demonstrate their key concepts and applications.
Mobile and distributed computing systems
Unit Code: FIT5046
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Mobile distributed computing systems’ focuses on the underlying concepts and standards of mobile computing. You will learn techniques to design and develop mobile applications. The unit aims enhance your understanding of current mobile and distributed technologies such as web services, context-aware computing, location awareness, wireless sensor networks and current research trends.
User interface design and usability
Unit Code: ITO5152
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A seamless user experience is the aim of all emerging computer technologies. In ‘User interface design and usability’ you will gain a detailed understanding of user interaction design theories, principles and practices. The unit will examine contemporary issues including the challenges faced by designers with emerging technologies.
Software testing, quality and standards
Unit Code: ITO5171
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Software testing, quality and standards’ covers the core software engineering disciplines concerned with managing and delivering quality software. You will cover processes, tools and techniques for system validation and verification, and will be introduced to major commercial tools used in the industry. On completion of this unit, you will learn how to detect, analyse and control defects in complex systems.
Software and network security
Unit Code: ITO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Software and network security’ you will be introduced to development issues including secure software life cycle, secure software design principles, secure coding practices and threat evaluation models. You will learn how to design, implement and produce test procedures and evaluate software security features.
Cyber operations
Unit Code: ITO5129
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Enterprise networks are highly complex infrastructures that face significant security challenges because of the scale of operations. ‘Cyber operations’ provides you with practical experience in planning secure networks, policy-based operations and the implementation of security. Through practical lab activities, you will learn best practices in dealing with security breaches.
Blockchain
Unit Code: ITO5214
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Blockchain is predicted to be the next revolution of the internet. In ‘Blockchain’ you will gain a basic knowledge of blockchain technology and how they can be applied to real-world scenarios. Your learning will focus on understanding different blockchain systems including consensus, privacy-preserving protocols and smart contract, which are increasingly being used in different industries.
Cloud computing and security
Unit Code: ITO5225
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Cloud computing and security’ will enable you to build a foundational knowledge of cloud computing technology and teach you how to design and implement cloud applications. You will also interrogate issues of security and privacy of off-the-shelf cloud services. Your learning will focus on understanding cloud delivery and service models, identifying different cloud platforms and fundamental cloud technologies.
Machine learning
Unit Code: ITO5201
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Machine learning is, in many ways, already revolutionising the broad ICT sector. In ‘Machine Learning’ you will explore the impact machine learning is having on the major statistical learning models and algorithms used in data analysis. You will build your understanding of these modelling algorithms – contextualised according to the emergence and evolution of machine learning – based upon foundational concepts, including: linear models for regression and classification (logistic regression, Bayesian classifiers), discriminative and generative models, k-means and latent variable models (Gaussian mixture model), expectation-maximisation, neural networks and deep learning.
Discrete optimisation
Unit Code: ITO5216
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit you will be introduced to the fundamentals of modelling for discrete optimisation. Your learning will focus on how to express a discrete optimisation problem in a way that can be solved. You will also cover specific topics, including decision variables, basic constraints, debugging discrete optimisation and fundamental algorithms.
Natural language processing
Unit Code: ITO5217
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Natural language processing’ you will gain an understanding in complex language expressions that are crucial to artificial intelligence. Natural language processing (NLP) is a vital piece of technology in the information age, therefore it’s vital for students to have a comprehensive understanding. This unit will cover essential techniques for analysing words, sentences, documents and applications.
Intelligent image and video analysis
Unit Code: ITO5221
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Intelligent image video analysis’ you will learn fundamental and modern concepts of image and video analysis. Your learning is tailored to help you to understand and develop vision-enabled systems, including image formation, operations, features and segmentation. The unit will involve discussing computer vision concepts and theoretical and practical implementation of aspects of computer vision.
Architecture and networks
Unit Code: ITO4137
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A strong foundational knowledge of computer systems is at the core of computer science. ‘Architecture and networks’ focuses specifically on modern operating systems and networking technology. The unit covers CPU, memory, storage, operating systems and the basic concepts of computer and network security.
Introduction to databases
Unit Code: ITO4132
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Database management systems are integral to the success of organisations. ‘Introduction to databases’ serves as a thorough introduction to database management, built upon a theoretical foundational of relational modelling, analysis and design. You will learn all about the core principles of sound database design, and how to implement relational databases by employing an SQL approach.
Foundations of computing
Unit Code: ITO4001
Description:
Mathematics and Computer Science cannot be untangled. Most of the problems found in computer science are often formalized and solved with mathematical foundations. Many important problems addressed by computer scientists need the skills in logical thinking, algebraic operations, probability theory and statistical tests and optimization techniques. This unit is designed to explore various mathematical methods required to work in the area of computer science. You will learn the fundamental concepts in tree and graph data structures, set theory and logic which include predicate and propositional logic, probability and statistics as well as linear algebra, data encoding and calculus. While learning the fundamentals, the unit offers a variety of problem solving activities concentrating on areas where mathematical foundations pave a path to computing problems. It offers an opportunity to understand how to solve computer science problems using mathematical foundations that are relevant to the program the students follow.
Java programming
Unit Code: ITO4131
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Java programming’ you will learn the basic concepts involved in the development of well-structured software using programming language. You will gain practical experience in program design and implementation of that design into programming language. This unit focuses on developing your problem solving skills and understanding new and existing code.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Architecture and networks
Unit Code: ITO4137
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A strong foundational knowledge of computer systems is at the core of computer science. ‘Architecture and networks’ focuses specifically on modern operating systems and networking technology. The unit covers CPU, memory, storage, operating systems and the basic concepts of computer and network security.
Introduction to databases
Unit Code: ITO4132
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Database management systems are integral to the success of organisations. ‘Introduction to databases’ serves as a thorough introduction to database management, built upon a theoretical foundational of relational modelling, analysis and design. You will learn all about the core principles of sound database design, and how to implement relational databases by employing an SQL approach.
Foundations of computing
Unit Code: ITO4001
Description:
Mathematics and Computer Science cannot be untangled. Most of the problems found in computer science are often formalized and solved with mathematical foundations. Many important problems addressed by computer scientists need the skills in logical thinking, algebraic operations, probability theory and statistical tests and optimization techniques. This unit is designed to explore various mathematical methods required to work in the area of computer science. You will learn the fundamental concepts in tree and graph data structures, set theory and logic which include predicate and propositional logic, probability and statistics as well as linear algebra, data encoding and calculus. While learning the fundamentals, the unit offers a variety of problem solving activities concentrating on areas where mathematical foundations pave a path to computing problems. It offers an opportunity to understand how to solve computer science problems using mathematical foundations that are relevant to the program the students follow.
Java programming
Unit Code: ITO4131
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Java programming’ you will learn the basic concepts involved in the development of well-structured software using programming language. You will gain practical experience in program design and implementation of that design into programming language. This unit focuses on developing your problem solving skills and understanding new and existing code.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Fundamentals of artificial intelligence
Unit Code: ITO5047
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Fundamentals of artificial intelligence’ interrogates core problems and approaches to designing intelligent software systems. You will cover automated search methods, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, and reasoning under uncertainty. This unit will teach you how to explain, evaluate and apply appropriate AI theories, models and techniques into practice.
Software engineering
Unit Code: ITO5136
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Software engineering’ allows you to put your existing programming skills to practice. You will be introduced to software engineering at the postgraduate level, with an emphasis on understanding and solving a wide range of software development problems. This unit will teach you how to identify and describe the software life cycle and its various models.
Information and computer security
Unit Code: ITO5163
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Security systems must constantly evolve to keep pace with our rapidly changing world. In ‘Information and computer security’ you will be taught techniques to solve security problems in information systems. You will gain experience in a range of security applications and learn how to effectively solve difficult coding issues.
Web applications development
Unit Code: ITO5032
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Web applications development’ provides you with the knowledge, understanding and skills to develop an application system. This unit will focus on mastering key concepts and the basic knowledge and skills required to build applications. You will learn of a wide range of technologies and examine a small number of them to demonstrate their key concepts and applications.
Mobile and distributed computing systems
Unit Code: FIT5046
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Mobile distributed computing systems’ focuses on the underlying concepts and standards of mobile computing. You will learn techniques to design and develop mobile applications. The unit aims enhance your understanding of current mobile and distributed technologies such as web services, context-aware computing, location awareness, wireless sensor networks and current research trends.
User interface design and usability
Unit Code: ITO5152
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A seamless user experience is the aim of all emerging computer technologies. In ‘User interface design and usability’ you will gain a detailed understanding of user interaction design theories, principles and practices. The unit will examine contemporary issues including the challenges faced by designers with emerging technologies.
Software testing, quality and standards
Unit Code: ITO5171
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Software testing, quality and standards’ covers the core software engineering disciplines concerned with managing and delivering quality software. You will cover processes, tools and techniques for system validation and verification, and will be introduced to major commercial tools used in the industry. On completion of this unit, you will learn how to detect, analyse and control defects in complex systems.
Software and network security
Unit Code: ITO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Software and network security’ you will be introduced to development issues including secure software life cycle, secure software design principles, secure coding practices and threat evaluation models. You will learn how to design, implement and produce test procedures and evaluate software security features.
Cyber operations
Unit Code: ITO5129
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Enterprise networks are highly complex infrastructures that face significant security challenges because of the scale of operations. ‘Cyber operations’ provides you with practical experience in planning secure networks, policy-based operations and the implementation of security. Through practical lab activities, you will learn best practices in dealing with security breaches.
Blockchain
Unit Code: ITO5214
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Blockchain is predicted to be the next revolution of the internet. In ‘Blockchain’ you will gain a basic knowledge of blockchain technology and how they can be applied to real-world scenarios. Your learning will focus on understanding different blockchain systems including consensus, privacy-preserving protocols and smart contract, which are increasingly being used in different industries.
Cloud computing and security
Unit Code: ITO5225
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Cloud computing and security’ will enable you to build a foundational knowledge of cloud computing technology and teach you how to design and implement cloud applications. You will also interrogate issues of security and privacy of off-the-shelf cloud services. Your learning will focus on understanding cloud delivery and service models, identifying different cloud platforms and fundamental cloud technologies.
Machine learning
Unit Code: ITO5201
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Machine learning is, in many ways, already revolutionising the broad ICT sector. In ‘Machine Learning’ you will explore the impact machine learning is having on the major statistical learning models and algorithms used in data analysis. You will build your understanding of these modelling algorithms – contextualised according to the emergence and evolution of machine learning – based upon foundational concepts, including: linear models for regression and classification (logistic regression, Bayesian classifiers), discriminative and generative models, k-means and latent variable models (Gaussian mixture model), expectation-maximisation, neural networks and deep learning.
Natural language processing
Unit Code: ITO5217
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Natural language processing’ you will gain an understanding in complex language expressions that are crucial to artificial intelligence. Natural language processing (NLP) is a vital piece of technology in the information age, therefore it’s vital for students to have a comprehensive understanding. This unit will cover essential techniques for analysing words, sentences, documents and applications.
Intelligent image and video analysis
Unit Code: ITO5221
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Intelligent image video analysis’ you will learn fundamental and modern concepts of image and video analysis. Your learning is tailored to help you to understand and develop vision-enabled systems, including image formation, operations, features and segmentation. The unit will involve discussing computer vision concepts and theoretical and practical implementation of aspects of computer vision.
Discrete optimisation
Unit Code: ITO5216
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit you will be introduced to the fundamentals of modelling for discrete optimisation. Your learning will focus on how to express a discrete optimisation problem in a way that can be solved. You will also cover specific topics, including decision variables, basic constraints, debugging discrete optimisation and fundamental algorithms.
Applied practice 1
Unit Code: ITO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The role of IT professionals is constantly evolving in the face of global technological change. ‘Applied practice 1’ provides you with a practical and theoretical understanding of what being a modern IT professional means, and how the role adapts. You will discuss issues relating to professional practice in the workplace, including the ethical and legal challenges of technology.
Applied practice 2
Unit Code: ITO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Applied practice 2’ you will have the chance to research contemporary approaches to developing a project. This unit is an opportunity for you to apply the skills and knowledge you have already gained in a practical setting. You will research and create a specific problem or question and then develop a solution according to industry standards for use by organisations or community groups.
Java programming
Unit Code: ITO4131
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Java programming’ you will learn the basic concepts involved in the development of well-structured software using programming language. You will gain practical experience in program design and implementation of that design into programming language. This unit focuses on developing your problem solving skills and understanding new and existing code.
Architecture and networks
Unit Code: ITO4137
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A strong foundational knowledge of computer systems is at the core of computer science. ‘Architecture and networks’ focuses specifically on modern operating systems and networking technology. The unit covers CPU, memory, storage, operating systems and the basic concepts of computer and network security.
Foundations of computing
Unit Code: ITO4001
Description:
Mathematics and Computer Science cannot be untangled. Most of the problems found in computer science are often formalized and solved with mathematical foundations. Many important problems addressed by computer scientists need the skills in logical thinking, algebraic operations, probability theory and statistical tests and optimization techniques. This unit is designed to explore various mathematical methods required to work in the area of computer science. You will learn the fundamental concepts in tree and graph data structures, set theory and logic which include predicate and propositional logic, probability and statistics as well as linear algebra, data encoding and calculus. While learning the fundamentals, the unit offers a variety of problem solving activities concentrating on areas where mathematical foundations pave a path to computing problems. It offers an opportunity to understand how to solve computer science problems using mathematical foundations that are relevant to the program the students follow.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Fundamentals of artificial intelligence
Unit Code: ITO5047
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Fundamentals of artificial intelligence’ interrogates core problems and approaches to designing intelligent software systems. You will cover automated search methods, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, and reasoning under uncertainty. This unit will teach you how to explain, evaluate and apply appropriate AI theories, models and techniques into practice.
Software engineering
Unit Code: ITO5136
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Software engineering’ allows you to put your existing programming skills to practice. You will be introduced to software engineering at the postgraduate level, with an emphasis on understanding and solving a wide range of software development problems. This unit will teach you how to identify and describe the software life cycle and its various models.
Information and computer security
Unit Code: ITO5163
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Security systems must constantly evolve to keep pace with our rapidly changing world. In ‘Information and computer security’ you will be taught techniques to solve security problems in information systems. You will gain experience in a range of security applications and learn how to effectively solve difficult coding issues.
Machine learning
Unit Code: ITO5201
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Machine learning is, in many ways, already revolutionising the broad ICT sector. In ‘Machine Learning’ you will explore the impact machine learning is having on the major statistical learning models and algorithms used in data analysis. You will build your understanding of these modelling algorithms – contextualised according to the emergence and evolution of machine learning – based upon foundational concepts, including: linear models for regression and classification (logistic regression, Bayesian classifiers), discriminative and generative models, k-means and latent variable models (Gaussian mixture model), expectation-maximisation, neural networks and deep learning.
Natural language processing
Unit Code: ITO5217
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Natural language processing’ you will gain an understanding in complex language expressions that are crucial to artificial intelligence. Natural language processing (NLP) is a vital piece of technology in the information age, therefore it’s vital for students to have a comprehensive understanding. This unit will cover essential techniques for analysing words, sentences, documents and applications.
Intelligent image and video analysis
Unit Code: ITO5221
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Intelligent image video analysis’ you will learn fundamental and modern concepts of image and video analysis. Your learning is tailored to help you to understand and develop vision-enabled systems, including image formation, operations, features and segmentation. The unit will involve discussing computer vision concepts and theoretical and practical implementation of aspects of computer vision.
Discrete optimisation
Unit Code: ITO5216
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit you will be introduced to the fundamentals of modelling for discrete optimisation. Your learning will focus on how to express a discrete optimisation problem in a way that can be solved. You will also cover specific topics, including decision variables, basic constraints, debugging discrete optimisation and fundamental algorithms.
Applied practice 1
Unit Code: ITO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The role of IT professionals is constantly evolving in the face of global technological change. ‘Applied practice 1’ provides you with a practical and theoretical understanding of what being a modern IT professional means, and how the role adapts. You will discuss issues relating to professional practice in the workplace, including the ethical and legal challenges of technology.
Applied practice 2
Unit Code: ITO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Applied practice 2’ you will have the chance to research contemporary approaches to developing a project. This unit is an opportunity for you to apply the skills and knowledge you have already gained in a practical setting. You will research and create a specific problem or question and then develop a solution according to industry standards for use by organisations or community groups.
Fundamentals of artificial intelligence
Unit Code: ITO5047
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Fundamentals of artificial intelligence’ interrogates core problems and approaches to designing intelligent software systems. You will cover automated search methods, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, and reasoning under uncertainty. This unit will teach you how to explain, evaluate and apply appropriate AI theories, models and techniques into practice.
Machine learning
Unit Code: ITO5201
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Machine learning is, in many ways, already revolutionising the broad ICT sector. In ‘Machine Learning’ you will explore the impact machine learning is having on the major statistical learning models and algorithms used in data analysis. You will build your understanding of these modelling algorithms – contextualised according to the emergence and evolution of machine learning – based upon foundational concepts, including: linear models for regression and classification (logistic regression, Bayesian classifiers), discriminative and generative models, k-means and latent variable models (Gaussian mixture model), expectation-maximisation, neural networks and deep learning.
Discrete optimisation
Unit Code: ITO5216
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit you will be introduced to the fundamentals of modelling for discrete optimisation. Your learning will focus on how to express a discrete optimisation problem in a way that can be solved. You will also cover specific topics, including decision variables, basic constraints, debugging discrete optimisation and fundamental algorithms.
Natural language processing
Unit Code: ITO5217
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Natural language processing’ you will gain an understanding in complex language expressions that are crucial to artificial intelligence. Natural language processing (NLP) is a vital piece of technology in the information age, therefore it’s vital for students to have a comprehensive understanding. This unit will cover essential techniques for analysing words, sentences, documents and applications.
Intelligent image and video analysis
Unit Code: ITO5221
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Intelligent image video analysis’ you will learn fundamental and modern concepts of image and video analysis. Your learning is tailored to help you to understand and develop vision-enabled systems, including image formation, operations, features and segmentation. The unit will involve discussing computer vision concepts and theoretical and practical implementation of aspects of computer vision.
Architecture and networks
Unit Code: ITO4137
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A strong foundational knowledge of computer systems is at the core of computer science. ‘Architecture and networks’ focuses specifically on modern operating systems and networking technology. The unit covers CPU, memory, storage, operating systems and the basic concepts of computer and network security.
Introduction to databases
Unit Code: ITO4132
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Database management systems are integral to the success of organisations. ‘Introduction to databases’ serves as a thorough introduction to database management, built upon a theoretical foundational of relational modelling, analysis and design. You will learn all about the core principles of sound database design, and how to implement relational databases by employing an SQL approach.
Foundations of computing
Unit Code: ITO4001
Description:
Mathematics and Computer Science cannot be untangled. Most of the problems found in computer science are often formalized and solved with mathematical foundations. Many important problems addressed by computer scientists need the skills in logical thinking, algebraic operations, probability theory and statistical tests and optimization techniques. This unit is designed to explore various mathematical methods required to work in the area of computer science. You will learn the fundamental concepts in tree and graph data structures, set theory and logic which include predicate and propositional logic, probability and statistics as well as linear algebra, data encoding and calculus. While learning the fundamentals, the unit offers a variety of problem solving activities concentrating on areas where mathematical foundations pave a path to computing problems. It offers an opportunity to understand how to solve computer science problems using mathematical foundations that are relevant to the program the students follow.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Java programming
Unit Code: ITO4131
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Java programming’ you will learn the basic concepts involved in the development of well-structured software using programming language. You will gain practical experience in program design and implementation of that design into programming language. This unit focuses on developing your problem solving skills and understanding new and existing code.
Fundamentals of artificial intelligence
Unit Code: ITO5047
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Fundamentals of artificial intelligence’ interrogates core problems and approaches to designing intelligent software systems. You will cover automated search methods, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, and reasoning under uncertainty. This unit will teach you how to explain, evaluate and apply appropriate AI theories, models and techniques into practice.
Software engineering
Unit Code: ITO5136
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Software engineering’ allows you to put your existing programming skills to practice. You will be introduced to software engineering at the postgraduate level, with an emphasis on understanding and solving a wide range of software development problems. This unit will teach you how to identify and describe the software life cycle and its various models.
Information and computer security
Unit Code: ITO5163
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Security systems must constantly evolve to keep pace with our rapidly changing world. In ‘Information and computer security’ you will be taught techniques to solve security problems in information systems. You will gain experience in a range of security applications and learn how to effectively solve difficult coding issues.
Web applications development
Unit Code: ITO5032
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Web applications development’ provides you with the knowledge, understanding and skills to develop an application system. This unit will focus on mastering key concepts and the basic knowledge and skills required to build applications. You will learn of a wide range of technologies and examine a small number of them to demonstrate their key concepts and applications.
Mobile and distributed computing systems
Unit Code: FIT5046
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Mobile distributed computing systems’ focuses on the underlying concepts and standards of mobile computing. You will learn techniques to design and develop mobile applications. The unit aims enhance your understanding of current mobile and distributed technologies such as web services, context-aware computing, location awareness, wireless sensor networks and current research trends.
User interface design and usability
Unit Code: ITO5152
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A seamless user experience is the aim of all emerging computer technologies. In ‘User interface design and usability’ you will gain a detailed understanding of user interaction design theories, principles and practices. The unit will examine contemporary issues including the challenges faced by designers with emerging technologies.
Software testing, quality and standards
Unit Code: ITO5171
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Software testing, quality and standards’ covers the core software engineering disciplines concerned with managing and delivering quality software. You will cover processes, tools and techniques for system validation and verification, and will be introduced to major commercial tools used in the industry. On completion of this unit, you will learn how to detect, analyse and control defects in complex systems.
Applied practice 1
Unit Code: ITO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The role of IT professionals is constantly evolving in the face of global technological change. ‘Applied practice 1’ provides you with a practical and theoretical understanding of what being a modern IT professional means, and how the role adapts. You will discuss issues relating to professional practice in the workplace, including the ethical and legal challenges of technology.
Applied practice 2
Unit Code: ITO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Applied practice 2’ you will have the chance to research contemporary approaches to developing a project. This unit is an opportunity for you to apply the skills and knowledge you have already gained in a practical setting. You will research and create a specific problem or question and then develop a solution according to industry standards for use by organisations or community groups.
Architecture and networks
Unit Code: ITO4137
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
A strong foundational knowledge of computer systems is at the core of computer science. ‘Architecture and networks’ focuses specifically on modern operating systems and networking technology. The unit covers CPU, memory, storage, operating systems and the basic concepts of computer and network security.
Introduction to databases
Unit Code: ITO4132
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Database management systems are integral to the success of organisations. ‘Introduction to databases’ serves as a thorough introduction to database management, built upon a theoretical foundational of relational modelling, analysis and design. You will learn all about the core principles of sound database design, and how to implement relational databases by employing an SQL approach.
Foundations of computing
Unit Code: ITO4001
Description:
Mathematics and Computer Science cannot be untangled. Most of the problems found in computer science are often formalized and solved with mathematical foundations. Many important problems addressed by computer scientists need the skills in logical thinking, algebraic operations, probability theory and statistical tests and optimization techniques. This unit is designed to explore various mathematical methods required to work in the area of computer science. You will learn the fundamental concepts in tree and graph data structures, set theory and logic which include predicate and propositional logic, probability and statistics as well as linear algebra, data encoding and calculus. While learning the fundamentals, the unit offers a variety of problem solving activities concentrating on areas where mathematical foundations pave a path to computing problems. It offers an opportunity to understand how to solve computer science problems using mathematical foundations that are relevant to the program the students follow.
Java programming
Unit Code: ITO4131
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Java programming’ you will learn the basic concepts involved in the development of well-structured software using programming language. You will gain practical experience in program design and implementation of that design into programming language. This unit focuses on developing your problem solving skills and understanding new and existing code.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Fundamentals of artificial intelligence
Unit Code: ITO5047
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Fundamentals of artificial intelligence’ interrogates core problems and approaches to designing intelligent software systems. You will cover automated search methods, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, and reasoning under uncertainty. This unit will teach you how to explain, evaluate and apply appropriate AI theories, models and techniques into practice.
Software engineering
Unit Code: ITO5136
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Software engineering’ allows you to put your existing programming skills to practice. You will be introduced to software engineering at the postgraduate level, with an emphasis on understanding and solving a wide range of software development problems. This unit will teach you how to identify and describe the software life cycle and its various models.
Information and computer security
Unit Code: ITO5163
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Security systems must constantly evolve to keep pace with our rapidly changing world. In ‘Information and computer security’ you will be taught techniques to solve security problems in information systems. You will gain experience in a range of security applications and learn how to effectively solve difficult coding issues.
Software and network security
Unit Code: ITO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Software and network security’ you will be introduced to development issues including secure software life cycle, secure software design principles, secure coding practices and threat evaluation models. You will learn how to design, implement and produce test procedures and evaluate software security features.
Cyber operations
Unit Code: ITO5129
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Enterprise networks are highly complex infrastructures that face significant security challenges because of the scale of operations. ‘Cyber operations’ provides you with practical experience in planning secure networks, policy-based operations and the implementation of security. Through practical lab activities, you will learn best practices in dealing with security breaches.
Blockchain
Unit Code: ITO5214
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Blockchain is predicted to be the next revolution of the internet. In ‘Blockchain’ you will gain a basic knowledge of blockchain technology and how they can be applied to real-world scenarios. Your learning will focus on understanding different blockchain systems including consensus, privacy-preserving protocols and smart contract, which are increasingly being used in different industries.
Cloud computing and security
Unit Code: ITO5225
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Cloud computing and security’ will enable you to build a foundational knowledge of cloud computing technology and teach you how to design and implement cloud applications. You will also interrogate issues of security and privacy of off-the-shelf cloud services. Your learning will focus on understanding cloud delivery and service models, identifying different cloud platforms and fundamental cloud technologies.
Applied practice 1
Unit Code: ITO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The role of IT professionals is constantly evolving in the face of global technological change. ‘Applied practice 1’ provides you with a practical and theoretical understanding of what being a modern IT professional means, and how the role adapts. You will discuss issues relating to professional practice in the workplace, including the ethical and legal challenges of technology.
Applied practice 2
Unit Code: ITO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Applied practice 2’ you will have the chance to research contemporary approaches to developing a project. This unit is an opportunity for you to apply the skills and knowledge you have already gained in a practical setting. You will research and create a specific problem or question and then develop a solution according to industry standards for use by organisations or community groups.
Information and computer security
Unit Code: ITO5163
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Security systems must constantly evolve to keep pace with our rapidly changing world. In ‘Information and computer security’ you will be taught techniques to solve security problems in information systems. You will gain experience in a range of security applications and learn how to effectively solve difficult coding issues.
Software and network security
Unit Code: ITO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Software and network security’ you will be introduced to development issues including secure software life cycle, secure software design principles, secure coding practices and threat evaluation models. You will learn how to design, implement and produce test procedures and evaluate software security features.
Cyber operations
Unit Code: ITO5129
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Enterprise networks are highly complex infrastructures that face significant security challenges because of the scale of operations. ‘Cyber operations’ provides you with practical experience in planning secure networks, policy-based operations and the implementation of security. Through practical lab activities, you will learn best practices in dealing with security breaches.
Blockchain
Unit Code: ITO5214
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Blockchain is predicted to be the next revolution of the internet. In ‘Blockchain’ you will gain a basic knowledge of blockchain technology and how they can be applied to real-world scenarios. Your learning will focus on understanding different blockchain systems including consensus, privacy-preserving protocols and smart contract, which are increasingly being used in different industries.
Cloud computing and security
Unit Code: ITO5225
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Cloud computing and security’ will enable you to build a foundational knowledge of cloud computing technology and teach you how to design and implement cloud applications. You will also interrogate issues of security and privacy of off-the-shelf cloud services. Your learning will focus on understanding cloud delivery and service models, identifying different cloud platforms and fundamental cloud technologies.
Introduction to databases
Unit Code: ITO4132
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Database management systems are integral to the success of organisations. ‘Introduction to databases’ serves as a thorough introduction to database management, built upon a theoretical foundational of relational modelling, analysis and design. You will learn all about the core principles of sound database design, and how to implement relational databases by employing an SQL approach.
Mathematical foundations for data science and AI
Unit Code: MAT9004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Data science draws on a foundation of strong mathematical principles. In ‘Mathematical foundations for data science and AI’ you will acquire a practical understanding of mathematical topics fundamental to computing and statistics, including: trees and other graphs, counting in combinatorics, principles of elementary probability theory, linear algebra, and fundamental concepts of calculus in one and several variables.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Introduction to data science
Unit Code: ITO5145
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Working with data means different things in different organisational contexts, which is why it’s vital for data science professionals to have an adaptable toolkit at their disposal. ‘Introduction to Data Science’ teaches various ways of working with data to draw actionable insights. You will acquire a versatile data science toolkit grounded in real world practice – exploring industry-relevant case studies as well as archival and architectural practice, taking into account policy, legal and ethical issues. You will learn skills related to data handling, including: data collection and storage; data preparation and cleaning; and data stream processing.
Data wrangling
Unit Code: ITO5196
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Data wrangling is an important aspect of data science, and essential when converting raw data into actionable insights that align with an organisation’s needs. ‘Data wrangling’ foregrounds the problems that prevent raw data from being effectively used in analytics, and how rigorous data cleanings and pre-processing is fundamental to preparing data for analytics. You will gain practical skills – conducted through Python and the Pandas environment – in handling bad and missing data, data integration, initial feature selection, text mining and web analytics.
Statistical data modelling
Unit Code: ITO5197
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The basis of data science is mathematical, in particular statistical modelling. In ‘Statistical data modelling’ this aspect of data analysis is given pride of place, with a focus on how modelling is used in a wide range of professional contexts. By working through case studies and industry-relevant examples, you will learn about analytic tasks, including: statistical hypothesis testing and exploratory versus confirmatory analysis. Similarly, you will acquire skills in a range of concepts fundamental to data modelling and prediction, including: basic probability distributions; random number generation and simulation; and estimation methods such as maximum likelihood estimators, Monte Carlo estimators, Bayes theorem, bias versus variance and cross validation.
Data exploration and visualisation
Unit Code: ITO5147
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Data exploration and visualisations’ introduces statistical and visualisation techniques for the exploratory analysis of data. You will cover the role of data visualisation in data science and its limitations, including discussion of qualitative and quantitative visualisation, as well as temporal and spatial data, and additional topics in interactive data visualisation, and creating data visualisations with R and other tools.
Applied data analysis
Unit Code: ITO5149
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Applied Data Analysis’ examines data analysis in its professional context, and is all about introducing contemporary methodologies such as Machine Learning techniques, ensuring students have the ability to present data effectively using widely available analysis software. You will investigate a number of characteristic problems/data sets and analyse them with appropriate machine learning and statistical algorithms, including: regression, classification, clustering and so on.
Machine learning
Unit Code: ITO5201
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Machine learning is, in many ways, already revolutionising the broad ICT sector. In ‘Machine Learning’ you will explore the impact machine learning is having on the major statistical learning models and algorithms used in data analysis. You will build your understanding of these modelling algorithms – contextualised according to the emergence and evolution of machine learning – based upon foundational concepts, including: linear models for regression and classification (logistic regression, Bayesian classifiers), discriminative and generative models, k-means and latent variable models (Gaussian mixture model), expectation-maximisation, neural networks and deep learning.
Data processing for big data
Unit Code: ITO5202
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
When the amount of data scales up, the methodology behind data processing must do so as well. ‘Data processing for big data’ focuses on big data processing, including volume, complexity, and velocity using the latest big data technologies. You will learn about large volume data processing using parallel technologies, and data streaming processing, both methodologies essential to processing large amounts of data efficiently.
Data analysis for semi-structured data
Unit Code: ITO5212
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Semi-structured data is one of the fastest growing kinds of data in both the public and private sector. Email collections with sender-recipient graphs, metadata and text content is one example. ‘Data analysis for semi-structured data’ will explore basic forms of semi-structured data: text, time-sequence data, graphs and multiple relations in a database. You will learn to apply basic machine learning algorithms – and methodologies such as cohort analysis and market-based analysis – to solve industry problems for the application of semi-structured data.
Applied practice 1
Unit Code: ITO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The role of IT professionals is constantly evolving in the face of global technological change. ‘Applied practice 1’ provides you with a practical and theoretical understanding of what being a modern IT professional means, and how the role adapts. You will discuss issues relating to professional practice in the workplace, including the ethical and legal challenges of technology.
Applied practice 2
Unit Code: ITO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In ‘Applied practice 2’ you will have the chance to research contemporary approaches to developing a project. This unit is an opportunity for you to apply the skills and knowledge you have already gained in a practical setting. You will research and create a specific problem or question and then develop a solution according to industry standards for use by organisations or community groups.
Introduction to databases
Unit Code: ITO4132
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Database management systems are integral to the success of organisations. ‘Introduction to databases’ serves as a thorough introduction to database management, built upon a theoretical foundational of relational modelling, analysis and design. You will learn all about the core principles of sound database design, and how to implement relational databases by employing an SQL approach.
Mathematical foundations for data science and AI
Unit Code: MAT9004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Data science draws on a foundation of strong mathematical principles. In ‘Mathematical foundations for data science and AI’ you will acquire a practical understanding of mathematical topics fundamental to computing and statistics, including: trees and other graphs, counting in combinatorics, principles of elementary probability theory, linear algebra, and fundamental concepts of calculus in one and several variables.
Introduction to data science
Unit Code: ITO5145
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Working with data means different things in different organisational contexts, which is why it’s vital for data science professionals to have an adaptable toolkit at their disposal. ‘Introduction to Data Science’ teaches various ways of working with data to draw actionable insights. You will acquire a versatile data science toolkit grounded in real world practice – exploring industry-relevant case studies as well as archival and architectural practice, taking into account policy, legal and ethical issues. You will learn skills related to data handling, including: data collection and storage; data preparation and cleaning; and data stream processing.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Introduction to databases
Unit Code: ITO4132
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Database management systems are integral to the success of organisations. ‘Introduction to databases’ serves as a thorough introduction to database management, built upon a theoretical foundational of relational modelling, analysis and design. You will learn all about the core principles of sound database design, and how to implement relational databases by employing an SQL approach.
Mathematical foundations for data science and AI
Unit Code: MAT9004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Data science draws on a foundation of strong mathematical principles. In ‘Mathematical foundations for data science and AI’ you will acquire a practical understanding of mathematical topics fundamental to computing and statistics, including: trees and other graphs, counting in combinatorics, principles of elementary probability theory, linear algebra, and fundamental concepts of calculus in one and several variables.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Introduction to data science
Unit Code: ITO5145
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Working with data means different things in different organisational contexts, which is why it’s vital for data science professionals to have an adaptable toolkit at their disposal. ‘Introduction to Data Science’ teaches various ways of working with data to draw actionable insights. You will acquire a versatile data science toolkit grounded in real world practice – exploring industry-relevant case studies as well as archival and architectural practice, taking into account policy, legal and ethical issues. You will learn skills related to data handling, including: data collection and storage; data preparation and cleaning; and data stream processing.
Data wrangling
Unit Code: ITO5196
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Data wrangling is an important aspect of data science, and essential when converting raw data into actionable insights that align with an organisation’s needs. ‘Data wrangling’ foregrounds the problems that prevent raw data from being effectively used in analytics, and how rigorous data cleanings and pre-processing is fundamental to preparing data for analytics. You will gain practical skills – conducted through Python and the Pandas environment – in handling bad and missing data, data integration, initial feature selection, text mining and web analytics.
Statistical data modelling
Unit Code: ITO5197
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The basis of data science is mathematical, in particular statistical modelling. In ‘Statistical data modelling’ this aspect of data analysis is given pride of place, with a focus on how modelling is used in a wide range of professional contexts. By working through case studies and industry-relevant examples, you will learn about analytic tasks, including: statistical hypothesis testing and exploratory versus confirmatory analysis. Similarly, you will acquire skills in a range of concepts fundamental to data modelling and prediction, including: basic probability distributions; random number generation and simulation; and estimation methods such as maximum likelihood estimators, Monte Carlo estimators, Bayes theorem, bias versus variance and cross validation.
Data exploration and visualisation
Unit Code: ITO5147
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Data exploration and visualisations’ introduces statistical and visualisation techniques for the exploratory analysis of data. You will cover the role of data visualisation in data science and its limitations, including discussion of qualitative and quantitative visualisation, as well as temporal and spatial data, and additional topics in interactive data visualisation, and creating data visualisations with R and other tools.
Applied data analysis
Unit Code: ITO5149
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Applied Data Analysis’ examines data analysis in its professional context, and is all about introducing contemporary methodologies such as Machine Learning techniques, ensuring students have the ability to present data effectively using widely available analysis software. You will investigate a number of characteristic problems/data sets and analyse them with appropriate machine learning and statistical algorithms, including: regression, classification, clustering and so on.
Machine learning
Unit Code: ITO5201
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Machine learning is, in many ways, already revolutionising the broad ICT sector. In ‘Machine Learning’ you will explore the impact machine learning is having on the major statistical learning models and algorithms used in data analysis. You will build your understanding of these modelling algorithms – contextualised according to the emergence and evolution of machine learning – based upon foundational concepts, including: linear models for regression and classification (logistic regression, Bayesian classifiers), discriminative and generative models, k-means and latent variable models (Gaussian mixture model), expectation-maximisation, neural networks and deep learning.
Data processing for big data
Unit Code: ITO5202
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
When the amount of data scales up, the methodology behind data processing must do so as well. ‘Data processing for big data’ focuses on big data processing, including volume, complexity, and velocity using the latest big data technologies. You will learn about large volume data processing using parallel technologies, and data streaming processing, both methodologies essential to processing large amounts of data efficiently.
Data analysis for semi-structured data
Unit Code: ITO5212
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Semi-structured data is one of the fastest growing kinds of data in both the public and private sector. Email collections with sender-recipient graphs, metadata and text content is one example. ‘Data analysis for semi-structured data’ will explore basic forms of semi-structured data: text, time-sequence data, graphs and multiple relations in a database. You will learn to apply basic machine learning algorithms – and methodologies such as cohort analysis and market-based analysis – to solve industry problems for the application of semi-structured data.
Applied practice 1
Unit Code: ITO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The role of IT professionals is constantly evolving in the face of global technological change. ‘Applied practice 1’ provides you with a practical and theoretical understanding of what being a modern IT professional means, and how the role adapts. You will discuss issues relating to professional practice in the workplace, including the ethical and legal challenges of technology.
Principles of global communications
Unit Code: APG5191
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit will develop foundation knowledge and skills in the field of global communications at graduate level. Particular focus is given to understanding the critical roles played by communications fields and industries across diverse sectors including politics, government, business and everyday society. These roles are further explored in the context of the complexities posed by a world of digitalisation and globalisation.
Strategic communications in a digital era
Unit Code: APG5192
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Strategic communication in a digital era further explores broad debates in the core concepts and theories of strategic communication across public, private and non-government sectors in a global context. In today’s societal world anyone from politicians, to business leaders, to environmental and human rights groups, as examples, lean to the fields of communications and media to advance their strategic aims and goals. Sources, strategies and ethics will be further analysed together with a particular emphasis on the complexities of new social movements and communication for development. These distinct ethical considerations are critical to professional communications in a digital era.
Data analytics in communications
Unit Code: APG5193
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit, students acquire skills in gathering, analysing and visualising digital data to gain a better understanding of audience sentiment, behaviour and engagement. Drawing on case studies and practical research, students understand the value of data analytics in informing communication strategies. Students also engage with the ethical and legal concerns at the heart of public debates relating to the collection and use of ‘big data’
Effective crisis communications
Unit Code: APG5194
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Effective crisis communications will identify and critically evaluate key concepts and theories in the context of crisis communications and issues management. Corporations, including key stakeholders, the government and the non-profit sector will be further explored, identified and critically evaluated with a focus on the implications of increasing globalisation and digital technologies. The role of empathy in crisis communications and disaster response will also be a focus to assist with the design and development of effective and ethical communications plans. Advanced communication, research and analytical skills will be utilised to proactively manage issues and crises and mitigate their impact for diverse organisations.
Social media marketing
Unit Code: MKO5601
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The social media landscape will be investigated in terms of the tools and technologies, as well as consumers and communities. Approaches to understanding customers and stakeholders through the use of social media will be explored, and various strategies to engage with these stakeholders will be developed. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding trends and changes in consumer behaviour as a result of social media, including examining why and how certain ideas spread and how businesses can meet the needs and wants of consumers through the social media landscape.
Digital marketing
Unit Code: MKO5881
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Digital marketing takes traditional views of marketing and exposes them to critical analysis in the light of technological change. It explores how marketers can utilise different ways of understanding, creating, communicating and delivering customer value in the marketplace.
Marketing principles in a digital world
Unit Code: MKO5916
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Marketing principles in a digital world examines the concepts and theories of marketing and applies them within a digital context. The unit will explore developing a marketing orientation through value, whilst understanding consumer behaviour in a digital world. The role of marketing in the creation of value for stakeholders, together with using contemporary tools to understand consumers and their needs will be a key focus. Product development in a digital world, creating value through pricing and capturing value through distribution will also be analysed. Strategic marketing tools to design and implement effective competitive strategies will be appraised and selected to create value through marketing ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
Integrated marketing communications
Unit Code: MKO5926
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Integrated marketing communications utilises industry based and theoretical frameworks and processes to prepare an integrated marketing communications plan. The plan will focus on realistic integrated marketing communication objectives and targeting, demonstrating the use of individual and integrated strategies. Tactics relating to marketing communications, message and media decisions will also be recommended and justified. Influences affecting the efficient achievement of integrated marketing communication objectives including budget, resource allocation, project management and environmental pressures will be evaluated. Broader marketing communication industry issues, offering insight and analysis based on research will be assessed, taking into account ethics and measurement.
Principles of global communications
Unit Code: APG5191
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit will develop foundation knowledge and skills in the field of global communications at graduate level. Particular focus is given to understanding the critical roles played by communications fields and industries across diverse sectors including politics, government, business and everyday society. These roles are further explored in the context of the complexities posed by a world of digitalisation and globalisation.
Strategic communications in a digital era
Unit Code: APG5192
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Strategic communication in a digital era further explores broad debates in the core concepts and theories of strategic communication across public, private and non-government sectors in a global context. In today’s societal world anyone from politicians, to business leaders, to environmental and human rights groups, as examples, lean to the fields of communications and media to advance their strategic aims and goals. Sources, strategies and ethics will be further analysed together with a particular emphasis on the complexities of new social movements and communication for development. These distinct ethical considerations are critical to professional communications in a digital era.
Data analytics in communications
Unit Code: APG5193
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit, students acquire skills in gathering, analysing and visualising digital data to gain a better understanding of audience sentiment, behaviour and engagement. Drawing on case studies and practical research, students understand the value of data analytics in informing communication strategies. Students also engage with the ethical and legal concerns at the heart of public debates relating to the collection and use of ‘big data’
Effective crisis communications
Unit Code: APG5194
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Effective crisis communications will identify and critically evaluate key concepts and theories in the context of crisis communications and issues management. Corporations, including key stakeholders, the government and the non-profit sector will be further explored, identified and critically evaluated with a focus on the implications of increasing globalisation and digital technologies. The role of empathy in crisis communications and disaster response will also be a focus to assist with the design and development of effective and ethical communications plans. Advanced communication, research and analytical skills will be utilised to proactively manage issues and crises and mitigate their impact for diverse organisations.
Marketing principles in a digital world
Unit Code: MKO5916
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Marketing principles in a digital world examines the concepts and theories of marketing and applies them within a digital context. The unit will explore developing a marketing orientation through value, whilst understanding consumer behaviour in a digital world. The role of marketing in the creation of value for stakeholders, together with using contemporary tools to understand consumers and their needs will be a key focus. Product development in a digital world, creating value through pricing and capturing value through distribution will also be analysed. Strategic marketing tools to design and implement effective competitive strategies will be appraised and selected to create value through marketing ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
Social media marketing
Unit Code: MKO5601
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The social media landscape will be investigated in terms of the tools and technologies, as well as consumers and communities. Approaches to understanding customers and stakeholders through the use of social media will be explored, and various strategies to engage with these stakeholders will be developed. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding trends and changes in consumer behaviour as a result of social media, including examining why and how certain ideas spread and how businesses can meet the needs and wants of consumers through the social media landscape.
Integrated marketing communications
Unit Code: MKO5926
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Integrated marketing communications utilises industry based and theoretical frameworks and processes to prepare an integrated marketing communications plan. The plan will focus on realistic integrated marketing communication objectives and targeting, demonstrating the use of individual and integrated strategies. Tactics relating to marketing communications, message and media decisions will also be recommended and justified. Influences affecting the efficient achievement of integrated marketing communication objectives including budget, resource allocation, project management and environmental pressures will be evaluated. Broader marketing communication industry issues, offering insight and analysis based on research will be assessed, taking into account ethics and measurement.
Digital marketing
Unit Code: MKO5881
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Digital marketing takes traditional views of marketing and exposes them to critical analysis in the light of technological change. It explores how marketers can utilise different ways of understanding, creating, communicating and delivering customer value in the marketplace.
The organisational context of project development
Unit Code: OPO5900
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the internal and external organisational context in which projects are conceived, evaluated, supported, and delivered. In evaluation of a business case for project initiation, you will critically analyse and apply strategy-related insights in the broad and immediate competitive environment. The unit emphasises engagement with project stakeholders, and the impact organisational structure, culture, politics has on these activities.
The dynamic context of project delivery
Unit Code: OPO5901
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the dynamic context of project delivery. The unit will emphasise the role that project leaders play in managing capabilities, resources, and changing expectations with an emphasis on team composition and team dynamics. You will develop the ability to critically analyse and apply insights regarding the professional standards and project performance criteria of project delivery.
The planning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5902
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the planning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the planning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
The learning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5903
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the learning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the learning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
The organisational context of project development
Unit Code: OPO5900
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the internal and external organisational context in which projects are conceived, evaluated, supported, and delivered. In evaluation of a business case for project initiation, you will critically analyse and apply strategy-related insights in the broad and immediate competitive environment. The unit emphasises engagement with project stakeholders, and the impact organisational structure, culture, politics has on these activities.
The dynamic context of project delivery
Unit Code: OPO5901
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the dynamic context of project delivery. The unit will emphasise the role that project leaders play in managing capabilities, resources, and changing expectations with an emphasis on team composition and team dynamics. You will develop the ability to critically analyse and apply insights regarding the professional standards and project performance criteria of project delivery.
The planning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5902
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the planning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the planning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
The learning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5903
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the learning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the learning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
The rise of project-based organisations
Unit Code: OPO5000
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The unit explores the rise of an emerging organisational form—the project-based organisation. It addresses the environmental forces that give rise to project-based organisations and the requisite governance systems required to coordinate across projects, programs and portfolios, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and the creation of value for the organisation. Leadership theories and the competencies of project leadership, which are required to support effective governance when managing projects, are also reviewed.
The project as a social system
Unit Code: OPO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores projects as primarily social constructs, where sense-making and adaptive behaviours are required to accommodate local contexts, dynamics, and personal attributes. The perception of projects as a process is critically examined and challenged with concepts from systems thinking. Cultural and political practices are explored to develop an understanding of the interrelationships between various elements of a project, and the environment in which they are executed.
Project management for organisational innovation
Unit Code: OPO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Project managers require a range of techniques to deal with projects that may be volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. This unit will explore the need for project managers to develop bespoke approaches which address the unique requirements of innovation-driven projects. With a focus on design thinking, you will evaluate the requirements of a specific (disruptive) innovation and propose a unique project design to achieve the organisation’s goals.
Managing project knowledge
Unit Code: OPO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The unit explores the role of knowledge networks in project delivery. It focuses on developing an understanding of how project managers acquire and exchange knowledge, and how this knowledge impacts their projects. The unit incorporates concepts and theories from various disciplines aligned to project management and knowledge management but takes the next step of what is arguably the end goal of our knowledge management system, the application and use of the knowledge we have.
The organisational context of project development
Unit Code: OPO5900
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the internal and external organisational context in which projects are conceived, evaluated, supported, and delivered. In evaluation of a business case for project initiation, you will critically analyse and apply strategy-related insights in the broad and immediate competitive environment. The unit emphasises engagement with project stakeholders, and the impact organisational structure, culture, politics has on these activities.
The dynamic context of project delivery
Unit Code: OPO5901
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the dynamic context of project delivery. The unit will emphasise the role that project leaders play in managing capabilities, resources, and changing expectations with an emphasis on team composition and team dynamics. You will develop the ability to critically analyse and apply insights regarding the professional standards and project performance criteria of project delivery.
The planning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5902
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the planning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the planning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
The learning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO5903
Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit focuses on the learning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the learning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
The rise of project-based organisations
Unit Code: OPO5000
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The unit explores the rise of an emerging organisational form—the project-based organisation. It addresses the environmental forces that give rise to project-based organisations and the requisite governance systems required to coordinate across projects, programs and portfolios, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and the creation of value for the organisation. Leadership theories and the competencies of project leadership, which are required to support effective governance when managing projects, are also reviewed.
The project as a social system
Unit Code: OPO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit explores projects as primarily social constructs, where sense-making and adaptive behaviours are required to accommodate local contexts, dynamics, and personal attributes. The perception of projects as a process is critically examined and challenged with concepts from systems thinking. Cultural and political practices are explored to develop an understanding of the interrelationships between various elements of a project, and the environment in which they are executed.
Project management for organisational innovation
Unit Code: OPO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Project managers require a range of techniques to deal with projects that may be volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. This unit will explore the need for project managers to develop bespoke approaches which address the unique requirements of innovation-driven projects. With a focus on design thinking, you will evaluate the requirements of a specific (disruptive) innovation and propose a unique project design to achieve the organisation’s goals.
Managing project knowledge
Unit Code: OPO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The unit explores the role of knowledge networks in project delivery. It focuses on developing an understanding of how project managers acquire and exchange knowledge, and how this knowledge impacts their projects. The unit incorporates concepts and theories from various disciplines aligned to project management and knowledge management but takes the next step of what is arguably the end goal of our knowledge management system, the application and use of the knowledge we have.
Industry project A
Unit Code: BEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment. This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program. Industry Project A will be externally focused and Industry Project B students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Industry project B
Unit Code: BEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment. This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program. Industry Project A will be externally focused and Industry Project B students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Industry challenge
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Global challenge
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.
Ethical and professional issues in psychology
Unit Code: PSY4405
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Ethical and professional issues in psychology’ takes a conceptual approach – grounded in theories and definitions – to focus on the pragmatic issues of psychological practice from an ethical, legal and professional perspective. You will learn about a range of topics, including legislation governing psychologists, professional organisations, codes of professional conduct, and ethical issues raised by: conflicts of interest, children as clients, using psychological tests, and the provision of psychological services to a multi-cultural population, managing the suicidal client, reporting child abuse, and service delivery over the internet.
Psychological assessment and intervention
Unit Code: PSY4406
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Psychological assessments and intervention’ provides students with a theoretical and practical overview of the assessment of individual difference, as a component of evidence-based practice. You will explore various classes of tests and classification tools – including a detailed examination of distinct models that measure ability and individual difference – and the role psychological assessment plays in evidence-based interventions for common clinical disorders. Another core focus of your study will be test evaluation methods, from a contemporary perspective that engages with recent trends in development theory, while covering the practicalities of test administration, scoring and interpretation.
Psychology in industry: Pathways to employment
Unit Code: PSY4407
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The knowledge you gain studying psychology is relevant to a wide range of career pathways. ‘Psychology in industry: Pathways to employment’ will help you identify and enhance your employability skills, and provide a sense about the kinds of careers that are possible with a psychology qualification. You will familiarise yourself with the steps required to become a registered and licensed psychologist in Australia, and the various alternative career pathways available. The ways in which their knowledge and skills are relevant to other industries will also be explored.
Advanced Psychological Inquiry
Unit Code: PSY4401
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this unit you will be introduced to advanced psychological inquiry, covering ideas about the nature of psychological knowledge and understanding. You will engage with both quantitative and qualitative methods. You will prepare for, and conduct, a semi-structured interview followed by a process of self-reflection. You will also analyse a quantitative dataset and prepare a short report to communicate your findings, allowing you to develop the critical thinking and writing skills required to generate a high-quality research project. At the conclusion of this unit, you will have a greater understanding of the different forms of knowledge that exist, and the research methodologies that can be used to enhance our understanding of the world around us. By equipping you with this knowledge and skill set, this unit is designed to prepare you for your GDPA research project. More broadly, the critical thinking, writing, reflection and interpersonal skills developed in this unit are relevant and transferable to various career pathways both within and beyond psychology.
Psychology manuscript: Project pre-registration and planning
Unit Code: PSY4412
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The GDPA research project is completed over the course of three units, where you will undertake a supervised research project in psychology that aims to provide training in both discipline-specific and transferable research skills. PSY4412 marks the beginning of your research project journey where you will focus on the development of your research project. You will complete the pre-registration of your research proposal, providing context and justification for the investigation of your research project. You will then assist in preparing the ethics application for a low-risk quantitative or qualitative research project. This unit will also provide you with an opportunity for formative feedback on a draft of your Journal Manuscript introduction, supporting you in the development of a high-quality Journal Manuscript as the capstone assessment of the GDPA. Throughout PSY4412, emphasis will be placed on professionalism and fitness for practice, ethical considerations and the development of research methodologies, ensuring a robust foundation for your future academic and professional endeavours.
Psychology manuscript: Data collection and processing
Unit Code: PSY4413
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The GDPA research project is completed over the course of three units, where you will undertake a supervised psychology research project that aims to provide training in both discipline-specific and transferable research skills. PSY4413 is the second unit of the research project sequence where you will commence data collection for your research project. Additionally, you will continue to build your research portfolio and the programmatic development of your research skills through a suite of engaging, authentic assessment tasks. In PSY4413, this involves the pre-registration of your data analysis plan, providing a comprehensive overview of the coordinated steps required to conduct an independent data analysis. You will also engage in self-reflection of the graduate attributes required for effective and ethical research and practice in the discipline of psychology. This unit will additionally provide you with an opportunity for formative feedback on a draft of your Journal Manuscript method, supporting you in the development of a high-quality Journal Manuscript as the capstone assessment of the GDPA. Throughout PSY4413, emphasis will be placed on professionalism and fitness for practice, implementing research methodologies and planning analyses, ensuring a robust foundation for your future academic and professional endeavours.
Perspectives in clinical and developmental neuroscience
Unit Code: PSY4408
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Perspectives in clinical and developmental neuroscience’ takes a lifespan approach to examine elements of neuroscience, developmental psychology, and mental health and illness, Your study will focus on aspects of mental health and illness that integrate traditional clinical information (e.g. symptoms, prevalence, aetiology), neuroscience (both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders), and evidence-based treatments. The topics you explore will relate to specific psychopathologies (e.g. posttraumatic stress disorder), specific life stages (e.g. childhood and adolescence), broad issues in mental health that transcend specific disorders (e.g. sleep, social support), and examine mental health in numerous settings (e.g. clinical, medical, and occupational).
21st century applications of psychology
Unit Code: PSY4409
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘21st century applications of psychology’ is a multi-disciplinary unit that draws together distinct strands of psychological theory and practice. Divided across 6 modules, you will study psychology from the following perspectives: the mind/body and self (e.g. body modification, embodied cognition, the ‘selfies’ epidemic), family and relationships (e.g. step-families, same-sex families), society and culture (e.g. modern racism, psychological perspectives in terrorism, acculturation and integration within multi-cultural Australia), health, stress and coping (e.g. resilience, positive education, cross-cultural approaches to therapy), ePsychology (e.g. cyber-bullying, virtual reality, artificial intelligences), and psychology of work (e.g. flow, flourishing).
Advanced psychological inquiry
Unit Code: PSY4401
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Statistical analysis is a key part of psychological research design. The first stage of your psychological research project will give you the opportunity to conduct a review of univariate statistics, and serve as an introduction to the philosophy of research design and analysis. Everything you learn will be contextualised in terms of the unique challenges of psychological research, which influence the research approach and statistical technique. By understanding the issues that arise around the choice of appropriate statistical technique and data preparation, you will be able to interpret your findings in a critical way.
Ethical and professional issues in psychology
Unit Code: PSY4405
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Ethical and professional issues in psychology’ takes a conceptual approach – grounded in theories and definitions – to focus on the pragmatic issues of psychological practice from an ethical, legal and professional perspective. You will learn about a range of topics, including legislation governing psychologists, professional organisations, codes of professional conduct, and ethical issues raised by: conflicts of interest, children as clients, using psychological tests, and the provision of psychological services to a multi-cultural population, managing the suicidal client, reporting child abuse, and service delivery over the internet.
Psychological assessment and intervention
Unit Code: PSY4406
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Psychological assessments and intervention’ provides students with a theoretical and practical overview of the assessment of individual difference, as a component of evidence-based practice. You will explore various classes of tests and classification tools – including a detailed examination of distinct models that measure ability and individual difference – and the role psychological assessment plays in evidence-based interventions for common clinical disorders. Another core focus of your study will be test evaluation methods, from a contemporary perspective that engages with recent trends in development theory, while covering the practicalities of test administration, scoring and interpretation.
Psychology in industry: Pathways to employment
Unit Code: PSY4407
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
The knowledge you gain studying psychology is relevant to a wide range of career pathways. ‘Psychology in industry: Pathways to employment’ will help you identify and enhance your employability skills, and provide a sense about the kinds of careers that are possible with a psychology qualification. You will familiarise yourself with the steps required to become a registered and licensed psychologist in Australia, and the various alternative career pathways available. The ways in which their knowledge and skills are relevant to other industries will also be explored.
Perspectives in clinical and developmental neuroscience
Unit Code: PSY4408
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Perspectives in clinical and developmental neuroscience’ takes a lifespan approach to examine elements of neuroscience, developmental psychology, and mental health and illness, Your study will focus on aspects of mental health and illness that integrate traditional clinical information (e.g. symptoms, prevalence, aetiology), neuroscience (both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders), and evidence-based treatments. The topics you explore will relate to specific psychopathologies (e.g. posttraumatic stress disorder), specific life stages (e.g. childhood and adolescence), broad issues in mental health that transcend specific disorders (e.g. sleep, social support), and examine mental health in numerous settings (e.g. clinical, medical, and occupational).
21st century applications of psychology
Unit Code: PSY4409
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘21st century applications of psychology’ is a multi-disciplinary unit that draws together distinct strands of psychological theory and practice. Divided across 6 modules, you will study psychology from the following perspectives: the mind/body and self (e.g. body modification, embodied cognition, the ‘selfies’ epidemic), family and relationships (e.g. step-families, same-sex families), society and culture (e.g. modern racism, psychological perspectives in terrorism, acculturation and integration within multi-cultural Australia), health, stress and coping (e.g. resilience, positive education, cross-cultural approaches to therapy), ePsychology (e.g. cyber-bullying, virtual reality, artificial intelligences), and psychology of work (e.g. flow, flourishing).
Psychology foundations: The individual
Unit Code: PSY4111
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Discover psychology’s historical origins as you build your understanding of psychology as a scientific discipline, and acquire the ability to conduct rigorous literature reviews. In ‘Psychology foundations: The individual’ you will learn how scientific research supports contemporary psychological theory and practice, exploring psychological theories related to learning, development, sensation and perception, personality, and the neurobiological basis of behaviour. There is a joint emphasis on the important role of cultural competency in understanding human behaviour, and you will learn to apply an Australian Indigenous lens to psychological research and practice.
Psychology foundations: The social self
Unit Code: PSY4122
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Psychology foundations: The social self’ serves as an introduction to the scientific discipline of psychology, and provides foundational knowledge in key areas including theories of social behaviour, emotion and motivation, and the cognitive processes underlying human memory. You will learn about the psychological research methodology, using descriptive and inferential statistics to justify your research in the form of a formal research proposal. Weaved throughout the unit is an ongoing discussion of cross-cultural similarities and differences, and the potential pitfalls of applying mainstream understandings of psychology beyond the culture from which those insights were derived.
Psychological inquiry: theory, methods and practice 1
Unit Code: PSY4051
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit expands upon topics in psychological inquiry initially presented in the foundational psychology units. You will further develop your understanding of the different theoretical perspectives on research and how these relate to the research process. You will develop your knowledge and skill in using some of the most common methods of research and statistical analysis. Specific topics include; theories of knowledge and research, parametric and nonparametric procedures to compare two or more independent or matched samples; correlation and linear regression; planned and post hoc comparison techniques; power and sample size considerations; interpretation of output; experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational research strategies; between- and within-subjects designs; and research ethics. There is a strong practical component to the unit, including authentic assessments and regular hands-on tutorial experiences, designed to advance your competency in applying a range of common research techniques and analyses.
Developmental and biological psychology
Unit Code: PSY4131
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Psychology is a scientific discipline which spans a diverse range of areas. This unit provides a continuation of two psychology topics that you will have learnt about in the foundational units. Developmental psychology encompasses physical, cognitive, and social-emotional changes across the life span and how these are shaped by macrosystems such as culture, and microsystems such as peers and the family. Biological psychology includes states of consciousness, mental disorders and addiction, mechanisms and disorders of learning and memory, and the regulation of emotional and motivated states. Unit activities provide further training in research techniques, report writing, oral presentations and teamwork.
Psychopathology and clinical science
Unit Code: PSY4032
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit develops your understanding of how human behaviour is classified as ‘pathological’ through examination of the historical influences and the theory of the aetiology, assessment, and treatment of psychological disorders. Adopting a biopsychosocial-cultural perspective across the lifespan, this unit will provide broad and comprehensive knowledge of both scientific and professional aspects of psychopathology.
Psychological testing and ethics
Unit Code: PSY4041
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Testing and assessment is a major component of psychological research and practice, which is why ‘Psychological testing and ethics’ teaches the underlying principles and processes of test development, administration and interpretation, as well as the ethical and legal responsibilities that underpin psychological research and practice. By investigating widely used psychological tests, critiquing various criteria including test reliability and validity, with a focus on theories of ability, and how our thinking about human abilities is influenced by our cultural framework. You will also learn how ethical principles apply to psychological research and practice by examining specific ethical dilemmas and case studies.
Psychological inquiry: Theory, methods, and practice 2
Unit Code: PSY4062
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
This unit will enhance your scientific aptitude and critical thinking abilities applicable to empirical research in psychology, and enhance your pragmatic problem-solving skills. In this unit, you will continue your training in psychological inquiry across three areas: theory, methods, and practice. In the theory component, you will learn about different theoretical perspectives on knowledge and research, including various quantitative and qualitative theories. In the methods component, you will develop your knowledge and ability to design complex research methodologies using both quantitative and qualitative methods. In the practice component, you will undertake complex statistical analyses, such as parametric and nonparametric procedures that compare three or more variables, the use of planned and post hoc comparison techniques, as well as techniques that investigate relationships and predictions involving three or more variables. There are strong practical components incorporated into the unit designed to advance and showcase your competency in undertaking individual research. To bring together your knowledge and skills in research theory, methods, and practice, you will undertake a research project under the supervision of a staff member.
Perception and cognition
Unit Code: PSY4081
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Perception and cognition’, divided in two interrelated halves, covers both perception and cognition. Following a cognitive psychology methodology, you will learn about the sensory processes involved in vision, audition and speech perception, sensory coding mechanisms and perceptual processing. The second half of the unit encompasses the acquisition, organisation, and retrieval of knowledge, with an emphasis on contemporary research techniques, cognitive architecture, attentional processes, models of learning and memory, mental imagery, language and higher-order thinking.
Personality and social psychology
Unit Code: PSY4151
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Investigate the history and philosophy of social psychology and personality, two fields that have radically altered our understanding of social identity, meaning and relationships. The first half of ‘Personality and social psychology’ will demonstrate how social psychology theories – such as behaviour in groups, aggression, attraction, dehumanisation and attitude change – are applied and critiqued in light of contemporary behaviour and new knowledge. In the second half of the unit, you will examine and compare distinct personality theories, including psychoanalytic, phenomenological, trait, and social learning approaches to personality.
Introduction to counselling
Unit Code: PSY4140
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
‘Introduction to counselling’ is a broad overview of counselling psychology theory and practice, providing students the opportunity to contrast various perspective. You will learn about various counselling theories – evaluating how personal beliefs and values influence the counselling process – and build your awareness of the legal and ethical responsibilities that underpin counselling psychology.
Foundations of mental health practice
Unit Code: PSY5011
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Guided by a case study approach, you will follow the journey of people through their experience of mental health concerns and navigating health systems. You will further your understanding of how the mental health system works within Australia, the types of community-based organisations, services, and resources available to individuals experiencing a mental health issue, and the barriers that interfere with mental health promotion and recovery from an episode of illness. Using contemporary strengths based models, you will consider how to conceptualise mental health concerns from a multidisciplinary perspective, develop your skills in critical and reflective thinking, and support people towards living well.
Digital technologies in mental healthcare
Unit Code: PSY5013
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
Digital technologies are increasingly being used to support well-being and to detect, treat and manage mental health problems. These technologies include telehealth, apps, chatbots, robots and wearables. These technologies have the potential to provide suitable, evidence-based, accessible care to a wide range of individuals. However, these technologies also raise a number of concerns such as privacy, regulation and guidance. In this unit you will: (1) learn about existing digital mental health services and frameworks; (2) synthesise information regarding the benefits and barriers of digital mental health technologies, and; (3) evaluate the implementation of digital mental health services across diverse settings and populations.
Contemporary issues and new directions in psychology
Unit Code: PSY4180
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Description:
In this elective unit you will develop your capacity to critically engage with contemporary issues, emerging trends and new directions in psychology. The unit will highlight the social, political, and cultural contexts that influence the discipline of psychology, as well as the contemporary challenges facing psychologists in both research and practice. Specific topics include: cutting edge developments in psychological treatment, challenges in psychological research, new directions in psychological theory and practice, and contemporary applications of psychology for individual, social, and environmental change. There is a focus on authentic assessment tasks designed to improve your critical thinking skills, problem-solving skills, and your ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders in research, practice, and policy arenas.
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