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Graduate Certificate in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2025
Development Studies
Contact information
Coordinator
Professor Tamara Kohn
Email: tkohn@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Contact Stop 1
Future students:
https://study.unimelb.edu.au
Overview
A Graduate Certificate in Arts allows you to complete a comprehensive six-month course of study, in Development Studies. It is particularly useful if you are returning to tertiary study after time away from an academic environment or want to up skill in a particular area of Development Studies.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this specialisation, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate an independent approach to knowledge that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate theories and methodologies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values
- Apply critical and analytical skills and methods to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social contexts
- Act as informed and critically discriminating participants within the community of scholars, as citizens and in the work force
- Communicate effectively
- Commit to continuous learning
- Be proficient in the use of appropriate modern technologies, such as the computer and other information technology systems, for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of data.
Last updated: 3 February 2025
Structure
50 credit points
Duration: 6 months full-time / 1 year part-time
Program Requirements -
- one core subject (12.5 points)
- elective subjects (37.5 points)
Total 50 points
Please note:students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Subject Options
Core Subjects
12.5 points
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
DEVT90078 | Contested Development and Culture | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
DEVT90039 | Civil Society, NGOs and the State | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND40003 | Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DEVT90058 | Disaster and Humanitarian Aid | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
DEVT90061 | Global Urban Development | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
Elective Subjects
37.5 points
Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH20008 | Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20011 | Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20016 | Crisis, Culture and Resistance | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
ANTH30003 | Lived Religion in an Uncertain World | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH30005 | Power, Ideology and Inequality | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DEVT20001 | Development in the 21st Century | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20001 | Environment and Society | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20008 | Inside the City of Diversity | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG30019 | Sustainable Development | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS20008 | Public Policy Making | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS20023 | Comparative Politics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS20031 | Political Economy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS30015 | International Gender Politics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS30011 | Chinese Politics and Society | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS30022 | Global Environmental Politics | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
Links
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ssps
Last updated: 3 February 2025