1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

BH414
BT412
BT413
Structure
Management, Organisation and People
Current Issues in System Design
Software Engineering Strategies (2 subjects)
Progression to the Graduate
Diploma in Management Systems
On completion of the Graduate Certificate in Business
Information Technology (Management Stream) students
gaining entry to the Graduate Diploma in Management
Systems will be admitted with advanced standing. Entry is
not automatic and is subject to academic performance and
selection quotas.
Fees
The Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
Technology is a full-fee paying course.
NO79 Graduate Certificate in Housing
Management and Policy
This course is designed for people working in the public
and community housing sector and related industries such
as real estate and property development. It is a distance
eduction course and therefore available to students
Australia wide.
Course objectives
The objective of the course is to provide people working in
the housing industry with the practical and conceptual
skills necessary for management, administration and policy
development in housing provision. The content of the
course is thus split between knowledge of housing issues
and skills in administration, management, research and
policy.
The formal objects of the course are:
to provide knowledge of, and experience in the
analysis of, Australia's housing system and the social
and economic ~roblems that characterise the system;
to provide broad problem solving, organisational and
management skills in a range of housing areas;
m to develop a client based management culture in public
and community housing delivery.
Application Requirements
Applicants should have at least five years appropriate work
experience in housing management, and administration, or
in a related area such as social and community sector
employment. Applicants without work experience are also
eligible if they have an appropriate degree such as Arts,
Social Science, Business or Planning. Potential participants
can apply in two ways: they can be sponsored by their
employees such as a State Housing Authority or they can
pay themselves. Participants who are sponsored by State
Housing Authorities will be chosen in cooperation with
these authorities in order to ensure students meet the
professional needs of the organisation. The same
application form is used for sponsored and self-funded
applications.
Course structure
The course consists of four subjects taken over two years
part-time (one subject per semester). Five subjects are
offered, three of which are compulsory (AS485, AS486,
AS487) and two of which are electives (AS488, AS489).
First Year
AS485 The Australian Housing System
(Semester 1)
Housing Management and Administration
(Semester 2)
Second Year
AS487
AS486 Housing Policy and Research (Semester 1)
AS488 Housing Economics (Semester 2)
or
AS489 Issues in Housing Provision (Semester 2)
Fees
The Graduate Certificate in Housing Management and
Policy is a full-fee paying course.
Course Convener
Assoc. Professor Terry Burke
Telephone: 9214 8109
A074 Graduate Certificate in Taxation
and Finance
This program is a two semester, part-time course. Offered
for the first time in Australia, this unique course will open
access to tertiary education to a large number of practising
accountants and managers who, until now, have been
effectively excluded from tertiary education or have had no
involvement in it for some time.
Course objectives
It is expected that, at the completion of the course,
candidates:
will be provided with an intensive practical course of
study in taxation and finance to better equip them to
deal with taxation and finance issues in practice as
professional taxation, financial and accounting advisers;
will have a recognised qualification which will assist
them in developing their careers in business; and
will be equipped with suitable skills necessary to
continue with further postgraduate study in taxation
and finance.
As candidates will already be established in business
careers, it is expected that the key vocational outcomes will
arise from better current job performance as well as new
opportunities opening in the broader fields of management,
accounting, taxation and finance within their current
organisations.
Entrance requirements
In order to be accepted into this course, applicants must
have at least two years practical business experience at
middle management level and a good track record as judged
by the selectioli panel.