Short Courses for Professional Development
We want to help
- Equip you to make a difference
- Stimulate your professional development
- Enable you to engage in the community
- Strengthen your career opportunities
- Develop your research, policy and communication skills
- Extend your professional relationships and networks.
We offer courses which can be taken individually or together.
Intensive Courses in Sustainability for Professional Development
Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute
3 Pakenham St, Fremantle
These courses are available individually or together as professional development courses. In this mode they are not for university credit. If you want to undertake these courses for credit please enrol through our postgraduate offerings.
SS 542 Sustainability through Deliberative Democracy (302475)
Availability: Intensive, 1st Semester, 28, 29, 30 April and 2,3 May, 2011
Venue: CUSP, 3 Pakenham St, Fremantle
Unit controller: Janette Hartz-Karp
Points: 25
Sustainability will depend on the good will and creative energy of all elements of society working together. Achieving this will not be easy. This short course will focus on one potential way forward – the implementation of deliberative democracy. Rather than being an alternative to our current system of representative democracy (the election of the few to represent our interests), it is proposed that deliberative democracy could significantly augment it by including the reasoned voice of inclusive, representative participants, engaged in deliberative dialogue, empowered to influence decision-making. This course is essentially practical, ie students will learn how and when to run a variety of deliberative democracy techniques including the citizens’ jury, consensus forum, deliberative poll/survey, 21st century town meeting/dialogue, multi criteria analysis conference, world café and open space technology. Students will also be expected to lead, help organise, facilitate or participate in a deliberative engagement of community members.
Curtin students please enrol via Humanities Student Services
Phone: +61 8 9266 3400
humanities@curtin.edu.au
Professional Development applicants please complete the Registration Form
Sustainability through Deliberative Democracy Registration form [.pdf - 81kb]
SS 543 Sustainable Cities (302482)
Availability: Intensive, 1st Semester, 21 – 25 February, 2011
Venue: CUSP, 3 Pakenham St, Fremantle
Unit Controller: Professor Jeff Kenworthy
Points: 25
This unit examines cities around the world from within a sustainability framework. Its core focus is the issue of automobile dependence in cities and the associated land use, environmental, social, economic and urban design issues surrounding it. The unit covers a transport history of cities, the transport energy issue, private, public and non-motorised transport, issues of suburban sprawl and transit-oriented development, central cities, environmental technologies and the greening of cities and other issues. The unit is taught within a very broad international comparative research framework, with many examples of the best and worst in cities. Students are required to complete a project developing a vision of sustainability for a particular city or part of a city.
Curtin students please enrol via Humanities Student Services
Phone: +61 8 9266 3400
humanities@curtin.edu.au
Professional Development applicants please complete the Registration Form
Registration Form - Sustainable Cities [.pdf - 81kb]
SS 544 Leadership in Sustainability (302479)
Availability: Intensive, 2nd Semester 28, 29 October and 11 November, 2011
Venue: CUSP, 3 Pakenham St, Fremantle
Unit controller: Peter Newman
Points: 25
Sustainability requires change and change requires leadership. This unit provides the rationale for why a business, agency or NGO needs to address sustainability at all levels of its organization and how the innovative ones are exploring what this can mean. It then establishes a process for those engaged in the course to take their own leadership aspirations to a new level. The unit will provide an academic and a personal challenge to all who attend.
Curtin students please enrol via Humanities Student Services
Phone: +61 8 9266 3400
humanities@curtin.edu.au
Professional Development applicants please complete the Registration Form
Registration Form - Leadership in Sustainability [.pdf - 80kb]
SS 545 Sustainable Coastal Management in the Indian Ocean Region (311879)
Availability: Intensive, 2nd Semester (TBA)
Venue: CUSP, 3 Pakenham St, Fremantle
Unit controllers: Associate Professor Laura Stocker and Professor Bob Pokrant
Points: 25
In this course we use a series of case studies from around the Indian Ocean Region to examine: the uses of the coasts and sea; conflicts and cooperation; coastal transformations resulting from uses. We assess traditional policy and management approaches and their problems. Drawing on sustainability as a framework, we introduce a range of contemporary approaches such as complex systems, principled and reflexive governance, transition management; stakeholder and community engagement; integrated coastal zone management; ecosystem management; ocean citizenship and regional cooperation.
Curtin students please enrol via Humanities Student Services
Phone: +61 8 9266 3400
humanities@curtin.edu.au
Professional Development applicants please complete the Registration Form
Registration Form - Sustainable Coastal Management in the Indian Ocean Region [.pdf - 48kb]
SS 591 Sustainability Studies Practicum (302474) – Decarbonising Cities and Regions
Availability: Intensive, 2nd Semester, 12 – 16 September, 2011
Venue: CUSP, 3 Pakenham St, Fremantle
Unit controller: Peter Newman
Points: 50
Australia, in line with key international countries has committed to reducing carbon emissions in the economy by 80% by 2050. How do businesses, households, schools, government departments and universities develop the necessary carbon accounting and analysis skills to participate in this process? What are the emerging legal requirements to do this? How are the UNFCCC negotiations attempting to create a global treaty? What are the technological, town planning, building and lifestyle options to decarbonise our settlements and regions? These questions will be addressed by some of the States leading experts, including a range of industry professionals, academics and respected leaders from various fields. They will share their wealth of experience through presentations, reflective discussions and workshops during the five day "Decarbonising Cities and Regions" course. It is aimed at both professionals and students from a variety of backgrounds and has been designed to enable professionals to attend particular days.
Individual days and packages are available for professional development.
View Decarbonising Cities and Regions course outline [.pdf - 254KB]
Registration Form [.pdf - 90Kb]
Curtin students please enrol via Humanities Student Services
Phone: +61 8 9266 3400
humanities@curtin.edu.au
Contacts
Academic Coordinator: For inquiries about these courses for academic award please contact Associate Professor Laura Stocker on email L.Stocker@curtin.edu.au or by phone (08) 9266 9034.
Professional Development: For registration in these courses for Professional Development please contact Jana Soderlund on j.soderlund@curtin.edu.auor by phone (08) 9266 9030.
