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MPH International Development (GEOT29)     PT

2016 - 2017

 
 

Year 1


STUDENTS SHOULD CONTACT THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON WHICH UNITS ARE TAKEN IN WHICH YEAR OF STUDY.

 


units (75 credits)
1A
A student will take

Semester 1
GEO6801  Ideas and Practice in International Development AUT SEM 15 credits
HAR6030  Introduction to Research Methods AUT SEM 15 credits
HAR675  Key Issues in Global Public Health AUT SEM 15 credits

Semester 2
GEO6804  International Development Field class SPR SEM 15 credits

Any Semester
GEO6803  Professional Skills for Development GRAD YR 15 credits

units (15 credits)
1B
A student will take 15 credits from this group.

Semester 1
GEO6016  Data, Visualisation and GIS AUT SEM 15 credits
GEO6024  Introduction to Quantitative Analysis AUT SEM 15 credits
GEO6302  Theory and Debates in Food Security and Food Justice AUT SEM 15 credits
HAR619  Epidemiology AUT SEM 15 credits
TRP630  Theorising the City in the Global South AUT SEM 15 credits
TRP631  Urban Development in the Global South AUT SEM 15 credits
a student can take unrestricted (subject to approval of the Head of Department) units to the value of 15 credits.
AND

units (30 credits)
1C
A student will take 30 credits from this group.

Semester 2
GEO6809  Living with Climate Change in the Global South SPR SEM 15 credits
HAR6021  Health Promotion SPR SEM 15 credits
HAR655  Public Health Informatics SPR SEM 15 credits
HAR685  Communicable Disease Control SPR SEM 15 credits
HAR686  Disaster and Emergency Management SPR SEM 15 credits
HAR697  Using Policy to Strengthen Health Systems SPR SEM 15 credits
TRP6013  Cities of Diversity SPR SEM 15 credits
TRP6014  Cities of 'the South': Planning for Informality SPR SEM 15 credits
TRP6019  Governance and Participation in the Global South SPR SEM 15 credits
a student can take unrestricted (subject to approval of the Head of Department) units to the value of 15 credits.

units (60 credits)
1D
A student will take

Any Semester
GEO6805  Dissertation with Placement GRAD YR 60 credits

2

A student who has been awarded one hundred and twenty credits in respect of units listed at 1A, 1B, and 1C will be eligible for the award of the Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health and International Development.

 


3

A student who has been awarded sixty credits in respect of 1A, 1B, and 1C above will be eligible for the award of the Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health and International Development.

 


4

In respect of GEO6805, subject to satisfactory performance in 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D a student who passes the research proposal element of GEO6805 will spend up to 8 weeks working on a practice placement upon which the dissertation may be based subject to the approval of the Head of Department.

Year 2

 
 
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