1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

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Course structure
The course may be completed part-time in the evening over
two years. It comprises eight semester subjects in all and
each subject involves four hours of class meetings per
week. Usually students enrol for two subjects concurrently
in each of the four semesters but may, in special
circumstances, enrol for only one subject per semester.
Subjects on Korean society and culture, and on business
and ~olitics, are offered in alternate years.
The subjects offered are:
AK400 Koread Society A
AK401 Korean Society B
AK402 Korean Culture A
AK403 Korean Culture B
AK404 Korean Business and Industry A
AK405 Korean Business and Industry B
AK406 Korean Politics A
AK407 Korean Politics B
Course Convener
g Alina Skoutarides
tg Telephone: 9214 8051
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~081 Graduate Diploma in Korean for
Professionals
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The Graduate Diploma in Korean for Professionals is an
3 intensive language course specifically designed for graduates
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g with no previous studies in Korean. It provides vocational
g language skills and basic knowledge of the cultural, social,
political and economic aspects of contemporary Korea.
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8. The course is planned so that graduates in business, law,
medicine, engineering, etc., who are working, or planning
to undertake employment, in an area requiring Korean
2 language skills and knowledge of Korea can acquire the main
principles of the written and spoken language as well as
vocabulary and expressions pertinent to their professional
needs.
Entrance requirements
Applicants must have a degree, or equivalent, from a
recognised university, college or institute.
Course structure
This is offered as a part-time evening course.
The language component is six hours per week over four
semesters.
Year 1
The language component in the first year includes basic
grammar, situational dialogues, aural comprehension and
reading/writing sections which provide students with the
basic knowledge of the mechanics of the language.
Semester 1
AK420 Graduate Diploma in Korean for
Professionals 1A
Semester 2
M421 Graduate Diploma in Korean for
Professionals 1B
Year 2
The language component of the second year level is divided
into a core segment of advanced grammar and a segment in
which language pertinent to students' professional needs is
studied through reading and conversation.
Semester l
M422 Graduate Diploma in Korean for
Professionals 2A
Semester 2
AK423 Graduate Diploma in Korean for
Professionals 2B
Supporting components
Equivalent to two hours per week over four semesters.
The four supporting components are culture, society,
politics/economy and communication.
These components take the form of five three-hour
seminars per semester, at times to be arranged.
Course Convener
Alina Skoutarides
Telephone: 9214 8051
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Graduate Diploma in
Management
Career potential
This program addresses wide areas of management concern
with courses designed for people in careers which demand
knowledge of a broad range of innovative management
skills. It is recommended for anyone with current or future
responsibilities who needs to acquire innovative
management skills which their prior functional specialist
training has not provided.
Admission requirements
Applicants should comply with one of the following:
the completion of a degree or diploma together with at
least two years' industrial experience and with a
suitable level of responsibility within their chosen field;
students enrolled in either the Bachelor of Engineering
or the Bachelor of Technology programs at Swinburne
may be admitted to a combined program;
the completion of the Graduate Certificate in
Enterprise Management or Graduate Certificate in
Training Management at distinction level or above;
a limited number of applicants not meeting the above
criteria may be admitted after interview on the basis of
considerable relevant experience and level of
responsibility in industry or business.
Duration of program
The program can be undertaken by one year of full-time
study or two years of part-time study.
The program can also be combined with the Swinburne
Bachelor of Engineering and requires only a further six
months of full-time study or one year of part time study
after completion of the four and a half year degree