A4011 Graduate Certificate of Public Policy

The course comprises four units (24 credit points) which provide knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required of skilled practitioners working in a range of fields addressing public policy.

Course progression map

The course progression map provides guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are 6 points unless otherwise stated.

a. You must complete 18 points from the following units:

• APG5101 Foundations of public policy 
• APG5102 Governance 
• APG5103 Policy analysis*
• APG5104 Public sector reform 
• APG5129 Evaluation
• APG5195 Implementation and service delivery 

* APG5103 is not available to students who have been approved by ANSZOG to progress into the Executive Masters of Public Administration.

b. You must complete six points from the following elective list or from Part a. above:

Criminology

• APG5088 International and comparative criminal justice policy
• APG5106 Understanding, designing and delivering criminal justice policy

• APG4223 Gender and family violence
• APG4224 Gender, family violence and criminal justice responses
• APG5667 Terrorism, fringe politics and extremist violence
• LAW5353 Cybercrime
• LAW5451 Indigenous people and the law
• LAW5424 Human trafficking, modern slavery and the law
• LAW5356 Corporate and white collar crime
• SWM5121 Criminology and social work

Cultural and creative industries

• APG5067 Sustainable cultural development

Diplomacy and international trade

• BTF5919 International trade law
• MGF5730 International trade policy
• MGF5760 International institutions and organisations
• MGF5911 Geo-politics and business globalisation

Family violence prevention

• APG4223 Gender and family violence
• APG4224 Gender, family violence and criminal justice responses
• APG5075 Using data to understand family violence
• APG5076 Health and family violence
• LAW5469 Family violence, gender and law
• SWM5127 Family violence and social work practice 

Global Migration

• LAW5454 Climate change and displacement
• LAW5465 Migration and human rights
• LAW5424 Human trafficking, modern slavery and the law
• MPH5214 Demographic methods 

Health and social policy

• APG4223 Gender and family violence
• APG4224 Gender, family violence and criminal justice responses
• APG5045 Gender and development  
• HEC5970 Introduction to health economics
• MPH5269 Foundations of health policy
• MPH5272 Principles of health systems
• MPH5266 Clinical leadership and management
• MPH5267 Principles of health care quality improvement
• SWM5109 Critical social work 4: Social policy, social change and community practice
• SWM5132 AOD (drug and alcohol) and social work
• SWM5124 Social work practice in post disaster sites
• SWM5126 Longevity and social work practice
• SWM5127 Family violence and social work practice
• SWM5133 The Australian welfare state and social policy

Organisational leadership

• APG5470 Managing multicultural teams
• APG5471 Leadership in intercultural environments
• APG5481 Language for professional purposes - Part 1
• APG5482 Language for professional purposes - Part 2
• APG5483 Language for professional purposes - Part 3
• EDF5626 Ethical leadership and decision making in education
• EDF5627 Emotions in educational leadership
• MGF5130 Managing diversity and inclusion
• MGF5630 Principles of negotiation
• MGF5921 Foundations in human resource management

Public finance

• ACF5903 Accounting for business
• APG5229 Prosperity, poverty and sustainability in a globalised world
• CIV5315 Applied transport economics (NB off campus)
• ECF5921 International economics
• HEC5970 Introduction to health economics (NB off campus)
• MPH5268 Financial issues in healthcare management

Regulatory policy

• ECX5470 Competition, regulation and policy

• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
• LAW5358 Current issues in workplace law
• LAW5361 Foundations of regulation: Policy, principles and practice
• LAW5362 Regulatory methods
• LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5411 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory A
• LAW5412 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory B
• LAW5461 Entrepreneurship and the law

Sustainability and the environment

• APG5433 Corporate sustainability management
• APG5426 Environmental analysis
• APG5434 Sustainability measurement
• APG5428 Environmental governance and citizenship
• BTF5910 Sustainability regulation
• ENS5510 Innovation to influence system change
• ENS5520 Understanding human behaviour to influence change
• ENS5530 Leading change for sustainable environment

Transport 

• CIV5314 Planning urban mobility futures
• CIV5315 Applied transport economics (NB off campus)
• CIV5302 Traffic engineering and management
• CIV5301 Advanced traffic engineering
• CIV5304 Intelligent transport systems
• CIV5309 Transport and traffic data
• CIV5310 Infrastructure project and policy evaluation

Urban policy

• UPD4201 Planning study 1: Regulating the city
• UPD4202 Planning study 2: Economics and the city
• UPD5201 Planning study 3: Critical debates - histories and theories of urban planning
• UPD5202 Planning study 4: Democratic community engagement

General electives

• APG5180 Policy and political communication
• APG5181 Intergovernmental relations

  ANZSOG pathway

• ACL5012 Delivering public value**

**This unit is only available to students who have been approved by ANSZOG to progress into the Executive Masters of Public Administration