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Graduate Diploma in Social Justice (Development Studies)

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of the Graduate Diploma in Social Justice, students will be able to:

No. Course learning outcome
1 Have an advanced understanding of recent disciplinary and practice developments that inform human rights, development, peace and conflict and justice thinking and discourse.
2 Be able to evaluate applicable research principles and methods including project evaluation, and contemporary research. 
3 Evaluate complex ideas including understanding the contestation of ideas in the field and being open to new ideas, methods and ways of thinking. 
4 Reflect critically on theoretical knowledge and communicate these ideas.
5 Have the skills to apply and evaluate scholarly developments that contribute to professional practice including problem solving.
6 Have the communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret findings and conclusions to specialist and non-specialist audiences. 
7 Develop collaboration skills that orient students to a work-based practical application of concepts, practices and policies they are engaging with in the course.