Graduate Diploma in International Development
Course code/s: AGDS Melbourne
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.
Details of fees are provided with the application kit.
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 60 credit points at third year level. They must include three compulsory subjects: SOC3DIP Development in Practice.
Students must complete the following compulsory subjects:
Core subjects (20 credit points)
| Teaching period | Subject title | Subject code |
|---|---|---|
| TE-SEM-1 | Development, Globalisation and Culture | ANT3DGC |
| TE-SEM-1 | Gender and Development | SOC2GAD |
| TE-SEM-2 | Development in Practice | SOC3DIP |
In addition to the core subjects, students choose subjects totalling at least 60 credit points, and including at least one other third year subject, from the following list of elective subjects:
First year subjects (15 credit points)
| Subject title | Subject code |
|---|---|
| Australia and Beyond: Introduction to Sociology | SOC1AAB |
| Culture and Globalisation: Introduction to Anthropology | ANT1CAG |
| Economy, Environment and Human Rights: World in Transition | POL1EEH |
| History and Globalization | HIS1DEV |
| Introduction to Asia: China and India | AST1ICI |
| Introduction to Asia: Japan and Indonesia | AST1IJI |
| Introduction to Aboriginal Australia | ABS1IIA |
| States, Nations, and Security: World in Transition | POL1SNS |
Second and third year subjects (20 credit points)
| Subject title | Subject code |
|---|---|
| Applied Anthropology | ANT3APA |
| Asian-Pacific Cities | SOC3APC |
| Charting the Colonial Pacific | HIS3CCP |
| Crises in South Asia: weapons, women, well-being | POL3CSA |
| Displacement, Flight and Refuge | ANT3DFR |
| Food, Drink and World History: ancient world to modern Australia | HIS2FDA/HIS3FDA |
| International Law and International Organisation | POL3ILO |
| International Relations: the Cold War and the Great Powers | POL3INR |
| Doing Anthropology | ANT3MQA |
| Living with Colonialism: resistance and accommodation | HIS2LWC/HIS3LWC |
| Nature, Conservation and Society: the human impact | SOC3SOE |
| Peace and Change | POL3PAC |
| Political Change and Development in the Third World | POL3DDA |
| Politics and the Economy | POL3PAE |
| Politics of Non-violent Activism | POL3PNV |
| Social Policy, Welfare, and the State | SOC3SWS |
| South-East Asian Politics: Change and Conflict | POL3SEA |
| The Politics of Economic Regions | POL2PER/POL3PER |
| The World since 1945: historical justice in the modern world | HIS3WOR |
| Worlds of Exclusion: global social inequalities | SOC3WOE |