Help your community plan for a sustainable future.
In this program, you focus on planning issues facing regional Australia, especially in high growth areas with challenging environmental and community issues.
- This program has interim accreditation with the Planning Institute of Australia.
In this program, you focus on planning issues facing regional Australia, especially in high growth areas with challenging environmental and community issues.
Develop advanced planning knowledge and skills and concentrate on a specialist planning area. With a strong emphasis on reflective learning, you draw on your formal and informal experiences in planning-related organisations and activities.
You will be challenged to think about major planning issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Attend courses in short intensive blocks on campus, and study online with supported reading material and resources. Assessment is done using an online discussion board or as written reports and practical exercises in urban settings.
You learn contemporary planning theory, environmental and planning law, planning practice, and engaging effectively with indigenous communities. Select a further five courses from research design: methodology of literature review, urban design, water allocation and planning, participation and conflict resolution, applied futures studies and Indigenous peoples and sustainability.
You can choose additional electives and complete a planning research project. You need to hold a Bachelor degree from a recognised university and be able to access a computer to use Blackboard to participate in online learning.
Admission requirements
To enter the Master of Regional and Urban Planning you will normally be required to hold a Bachelor degree from a recognised University.
You will need to be able to access a computer which enables you to use blackboard and participate in on-line learning sessions.
Students who have completed a Bachelor degree (AQF Level 7) or equivalent in the same discipline may be eligible to receive credit of up to 48 units (4 courses).
Program structure
Required courses: (9)
ENP701 Introduction to Psychology A
ENP702 Understanding Crime
ENP703 Punishment and Corrections
GEO700 Policing
PLUS select 5 courses from:
CMN574 Introduction to Sociology: Society, Culture and Change
ENP704 Criminal Profiling
ENP705 Minorities and Criminal Justice
ENP707 Homicide
ENP708 Family Law: Legal Frameworks and Issues
FUT700 Applied Crime Prevention
PLUS select 1 of the following Options:
Option 1
ENP710 International Justice and Human Rights
PLUS choose 3 courses of planning related electives from postgraduate courses from the Faculty of Arts and Business or the Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering with the express permission of the Program Coordinator and subject to prerequisite or degree structure requirements.
Option 2
ENP709 Criminal Law: An Introduction
PLUS choose 5 courses of planning related electives from postgraduate courses from the Faculty of Arts and Business or the Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering wih the express permission of the Program Coordinator and subject to prerequisite or degree structure requirements.
Program requirements and notes
Program requirements
- Students are required to successfully complete:
- four required courses and a further five courses from the list of courses offered
- select either:
- Option 1 ^: Complete a thesis (48 units) plus three electives (36 units); or
- Option 2: Complete a research project (24 units) plus five electives (60 units).
- Refer to related policies, rules, plans and procedures.
- Not available to international students on a Student Visa.
- Refer to the University's English language proficiency requirements.
- Students who have completed a Bachelor degree (AQF Level 7) or equivalent in the same discipline may be eligible to receive credit of up to 48 units (4 courses).
^ Students must have achieved a minimum GPA of 5.5 across the required courses ENP701 , ENP702 , ENP703 and GEO700 to undertake Option 1.