Graduate Diploma in Emergency Management (GradDipEmergMgt) - 2010

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• Available extramurally
• Equivalent to 1 year of full-time study. There is no time limit.
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The GradDipEmergMgt is designed for students who wish to broaden their knowledge in both disaster prevention and management. In its broadest sense, emergency management focuses on the organisation of communities to respond to disasters, to survive them, to rebuild social structures and infrastructure, and to sustain and preserve life.

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Entry requirements

A university degree or an approved qualification and sufficient background, qualifications or experience in civil defence, and admission to Postgraduate Study.

For general entry requirements see Massey University entry requirements.

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Programme structure

120 credits of which at least 60 credits are at 700 level, and not more than 30 credits at 200 level. 130.705 is compulsory, at least 30 credits must be selected from 130.701 or 130.702, and the remaining 60 credits from the following list of which no more than 30 credits can be from 200-level papers.

Distinction
Students who complete within one year of first enrolling for full-time study or within three years of first enrolling for part-time study may be eligible for Distinction.

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Papers

The Graduate Diploma in Emergency Services Management papers are:

114.242 Human Resource Development
114.271 Occupational Safety and Health I
114.272 Occupational Safety and Health II
132.221 Planning Studies
152.200 Contemporary Management
152.252 Project Management
157.241 Information Systems, Organisations and E-Commerce
158.261 Digital Multimedia Fundamentals
166.203 Social Behaviour and the Police
175.201 Social Psychology
219.206 Managing Communications Technology
114.355 Management Development
152.386 Risk Management I
152.387 Risk Management II
175.345 Organisational Psychology
176.308 Sociology of the Environment
219.303 Organisational Communication
130.701 Natural Hazards
130.702 Coping with Disasters
130.703 Project in Emergency Management
130.705 Emergency Management
132.751 Natural Hazards and Resilient Communities
147.701 Rehabilitation Theory and Practice