Graduate Diploma in Forest Systems Management (GD-FORSMGT) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

The Graduate Diploma in Forest Systems Management will prepare you for a career within the forest resource management sector and provide a pathway to further study. By undertaking the course, you will:

• Develop knowledge, skills, understanding and competence in areas of forest systems management
• Develop a thorough approach to sustainable forest management
• Understand the biological, economic, social and environmental factors that shape the development of forest resource management enterprises both in Australia and internationally
• Increase your knowledge and analytical capabilities appropriate to forest systems and related specialist disciplines
• Develop research competence in the design, conduct and analysis of experimental work
• Extend your scholarly and critical attitudes in forest and natural resource management disciplines

Generic skills

The Melbourne Experience enables our Graduates to become:

Academically excellent

• Have strong sense of intellectual integrity and the ethics of scholarship
• Have in-depth knowledge of their specialist discipline(s)
• Reach a high level of achievement in writing, generic research activities, problem-solving and communication
• Be critical and creative thinkers, with an aptitude for continued self directed learning
• Be adept at learning in a range of ways, including through information and communication technologies

Knowledgeable across disciplines

• Examine critically, synthesise and evaluate knowledge across a broad range of disciplines
• Expand their analytical and cognitive skills through learning experiences in diverse subjects
• Have the capacity to participate fully in collaborative learning and to confront unfamiliar problems
• Have a set of flexible and transferable skills for different types of employment.

Leaders in communities

• Initiate and implement constructive change in their communities, including professions and workplaces
• Have excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills, including an awareness of personal strengths and limitations
• Mentor future generations of learners
• Engage in meaningful public discourse, with a profound awareness of community needs

Attuned to cultural diversity

• Value different cultures
• Be well-informed citizens able to contribute to their communities wherever they
• Choose to live and work
• Have an understanding of the social and cultural diversity in our community
• Respect Indigenous knowledge, cultures and values

Active global citizens

• Accept social and civic responsibilities
• Be advocates for improving the sustainability of the environment
• Have a broad global understanding, with a high regard for human rights, equality and ethics.

Graduate attributes

The Graduate Diploma in Forest Systems Management develops knowledge and practical skills for managing forest resource enterprises, and provides graduates with key networks in this sector nationally and internationally. Most subjects within the course are offered as short-stay intensives supplemented by self-directed study; this teaching mode is well suited to part-time study and for participation by students based anywhere in Australia. Students undertake an opportunity to develop forest sector internship study in national or international settings to gain first hand experience and insight into a challenging aspect of forest management. Graduates gain an understanding of forest systems and their management including environmental, economic and social aspects. The forest systems management award will qualify graduates for specialist forest management positions within the forest and natural resource management sectors and provide a pathway to further study