APG5140 Guiding principles for professionals engaged in disasters and humanitarian crises
Faculty of Arts
APG5140 Guiding principles for professionals engaged in disasters and humanitarian crises is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2024 in Semester 1 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2024
- Semester 1
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2024 handbook entry. See the 2026 entry.
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Requisites
Before APG5140
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After APG5140
No unit lists APG5140 as a prerequisite in the 2024 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibition: MDM4010, MDM4110, MIR4110, MDM4070, MIR4170, APG5087, APG5089
Overview
This unit adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of disasters and humanitarian crises, including prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. This approach bridges the "domestic and international", "disasters and humanitarian crises", "disasters and development", "disaster risk and event" and "health and whole-of-society" perspectives.
Global and regional perspectives are considered to explore the terminology, classification, epidemiology, natural history and global trends of disasters and humanitarian crises. Students interpret international standards and guidelines and evaluate the way in which these inform policy, practice, education and research opportunities for disaster and humanitarian crises professionals. The broad and critical conceptual and practical understanding of disasters and humanitarian crises that students develop in this unit prepares them for a professional role in disaster risk management and humanitarian crisis management.
Offerings in 2024
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | On campus |
Assessment
- Analytical exerciseAssignment15%
- Career development taskOther15%
- Case study and PresentationPresentation35%
- Essay35%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Identify and explain the terminology, classification, epidemiology, natural history, context and trends of the risks and impacts of disasters and humanitarian crises from global and regional perspectives;
- 2
Evaluate systems for international humanitarian crisis and disaster management;
- 3
Interpret international standards and guidelines for assessment, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating disaster and humanitarian crisis practice;
- 4
Assess how policies and practice to prevent, mitigate, prepare, respond to, and recover from and build capacity for resilience in disasters and humanitarian crises can effectively meet the needs of different demographic groups;
- 5
Identify the personal and professional competencies expected of disaster and humanitarian professionals;
Workload and teaching
- Seminars18 hours
- Tutorials12 hours
- Teaching approachField trips
- Teaching approachRole play
- Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
- Teaching approachCase-based teaching
- Teaching approachActive learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
This unit provides students with opportunities to participate in experiential learning by visiting cultural, geographical and/or industrial sites relevant to their studies.
This unit provides students with opportunities to Role-play in order to have that personal engagement.
This unit will provide students with opportunities to work with peers in groups and pairs in class. They will have interactive discussions to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the topic, and reinforce your learning.
This unit includes case-based teaching, where students apply their knowledge and engage in analytical and reflective thinking to solve complex contextual scenarios. Activities are often designed so that there is not one clear answer, but students need to work together to examine, analyse and make decisions to resolve the situation.
This unit engages students in actively applying their knowledge, skills and attributes in interactive, collaborative and reflective activities.
Learning resources
Required resources
This unit requires access to a laptop that meets minimum specifications (https://www.monash.edu/esolutions/students/bring-your-own-device-byod). Free specialist software is available via MoVE (https://www.monash.edu/learning-teaching/innovation/learning-technologies/move).
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Associate Professor Jonathan Abrahams
- Chief Examiners
- Associate Professor Jonathan Abrahams
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5140?
APG5140 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is APG5140 offered?
In 2024, APG5140 runs in Semester 1 at Clayton.
How much work is APG5140?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does APG5140 have an exam?
No. APG5140 has 4 assessment tasks and no exam.