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Graduate Certificate in Rural and Regional Planning – Bendigo (RCRRP2)

The Graduate Diploma in Rural and Regional Planning is designed specifically to provide education and training from sub-professional to post-professional level. It has a focus on the sustainable development of resources and the planning of rural areas, country towns, and regional centres.

Planners in rural and regional communities are increasingly required to understand how communities function and operate. The course has an emphasis on the role of the planner in local government, operating in rural and regional communities in a setting of rapid economic and social change, and an increasing focus on sustainable natural resource management.

The course is designed to provide a pathway for gaining appropriate education and training and qualifications particularly for:

• public and private-sector employees working in planning offices who do not hold formal qualifications in planning
• public and private sector employees who hold qualifications in closely allied fields who seek to change their career paths or enhance their career paths.

Admission requirements

Applicants should have a first degree from a recognised tertiary institution. Applicants who do not possess a degree but who produce evidence of equivalent academic ability and/or appropriate professional experience may be admitted at the discretion of the course coordinator.

Course structure

This is a 120-credit point, full-fee paying course offered in a flexible delivery mode. Learning utilises both external study and conventional class-based delivery in block mode with a series of two and three-day weekend lectures, workshops and tutorials to assist students who are in full-time employment to undertake the course.

Candidates for the graduate Diploma complete the compulsory units from List A and List B below. In addition, they complete two elective units from List C. Students shall complete these units normally over two years.

Students who have completed the units in List A, and one other unit from List B or List C, can elect to exit from the course with the Graduate Certificate.

All students enrol in the first instance in the Graduate Diploma.

List A (core units for graduate certificate and graduate Diploma)

List B (core units for graduate Diploma)

List C