Courses
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Graduate Diploma in International Development – Melbourne (Bundoora) (AGDS)
Both fee-paying and Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) are available. Details of fees are provided with the application kit.
This diploma is designed to equip students with an appreciation of issues in social, economic, and political development from a multidisciplinary perspective. It will enable students to acquire an understanding of the ways in which national governments and non-governmental organisations have instituted programs of social and economic change for peoples in developing areas, such as Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Duration
This course is one year full-time or two to three years part-time.
Admission requirements
Applicants must have successfully completed a three year Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification.
Course structure
Students must satisfactorily complete a minimum of 120 credit points, including at least 40 credit points at third year level. They must include three compulsory units: ANT3DGC Development, Globalisation and Culture, SOC2GAD Gender and Development, and SOC3DIP Development in Practice.
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
Core units (20 credit points)
| Teaching period | Unit title | Unit code |
|---|---|---|
| TE-SEM-1 | Development, Globalisation and Culture | ANT2DGC/ANT3DGC |
| TE-SEM-1 | Development in Practice | SOC3DIP |
| TE-SEM-2 | Gender and Development | SOC2GAD |
In addition to the core units, students choose units totalling at least 60 credit points, and including at least one other third year unit, from the following list of elective units:
First year units (15 credit points)
| Unit title | Unit code |
|---|---|
| Australia and Beyond: Introduction to Sociology | SOC1AAB |
| Culture and Globalisation: Introduction to Anthropology | ANT1CAG |
| Economy, Environment and Human Rights: World in Transition | POL1EEH |
| Introduction to Asia: China and India | AST1ICI |
| Introduction to Asia: Japan and Indonesia | AST1IJI |
| Introduction to Aboriginal Australia | ANT1IIA |
| States, Nations, and Security: World in Transition | POL1SNS |
Second and third year units (20 credit points)
| Unit title | Unit code |
|---|---|
| Applied Anthropology | ANT2APA/ANT3APA |
| Charting the Colonial Pacific | HIS2CCP/HIS3CCP |
| Crises in South Asia: weapons, women, well-being | POL2CSA/POL3CSA |
| Displacement, Flight and Refuge | ANT2DFR/ANT3DFR |
| Food, Drink and World History: ancient world to modern Australia | HIS2FDA/HIS3FDA |
| International Law and International Organisation | POL2ILO/POL3ILO |
| International Relations: the Cold War and the Great Powers | POL2INR/POL3INR |
| Introduction to Ethnographic Research | ANT2MQA/ANT3MQA |
| Living with Colonialism: resistance and accommodation | HIS2LWC/HIS3LWC |
| Nature, Conservation and Society: the human impact | SOC2SOE/SOC3SOE |
| Peace and Change | POL2PAC/POL3PAC |
| Political Change and Development in the Third World | POL2DDA/POL3DDA |
| Politics and the Economy | POL2PAE/POL3PAE |
| Politics of Non-violent Activism | POL2PNV/POL3PNV |
| Perspectives on Consumption and the Popular | ANT2PCP/ANT3PCP |
| Reconciliation | POL2REC/POL3REC |
| Social Policy, Welfare, and the State | SOC2SWS/SOC3SWS |
| South-East Asian Politics: Change and Conflict | POL2SEA/POL3SEA |
| The Politics of Economic Regions | POL2PER/POL3PER |
| The World since 1945: historical justice in the modern world | HIS2WOR/HIS3WOR |
For full unit information, see the relevant discipline entries in the La Trobe University Undergraduate Handbook 2009, or the online handbook at www.latrobe.edu.au/handbook.