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Study postgraduate online with RMIT University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Learn foundational psychological theories and diverse perspectives from registered psychologists, academics, and thought leaders. Choose from a wide range of contemporary option courses and graduate with multiple study and employment pathways.

After studying how people behave and think, you’ll be able to pursue employment pathways including communications, marketing, HR, and mental health. Explore psychological perspectives with practicing industry professionals and RMIT’s expert academics.

Graduate Diploma in Psychology

The Juris Doctor program is accredited by the Victorian Legal Admissions Board (VLAB) in Victoria as meeting the educational requirements for admission to practice as an Australian lawyer. You will be able to be admitted to practice after completing a recognised Practical Legal Training course (6 months), or supervised workplace training with a law firm (12 months). You will possess a detailed and comprehensive knowledge of the Australian legal framework and fundamental legal principles, an understanding of comparative and international legal systems, an understanding of the ethical framework in which the Australian legal system operates, and a fundamental knowledge of the extra-legal factors impinging upon the substantive law. Learning activities and experiences in this program include case-based learning with students encouraged to engage in critical discussion in seminars and online forums, supplemented by active, authentic experiential learning opportunities in various simulations that develop legal skills. These simulations include writing briefs and other legal documents, mooting, interviewing, negotiation and mediation skills. These are integrated into most substantive law courses to ensure that students develop the skills in close connection with the legal knowledge. Clinical legal education and industry placement opportunities are also provided. A capstone experience will be provided in the subject OJD416 (LAW2413) Legal Practice Management &amp; Professional Conduct which will give you the opportunity to critically reflect on this degree’s curriculum. The subject promotes the integration and synthesis of a range of knowledge and skills gained in the program and the application of these in discipline related real-world scenarios. Students can determine their own study load each session – perfect for those wishing to fast-track but also flexible for those wishing to combine study with work and family commitments.

Designed for non-law graduates, this law degree opens doors to a range of professional opportunities where legal qualifications are sought. Gain comprehensive knowledge of the Australian legal system whilst choosing from many electives to suit your goals.

Juris Doctor

Understand how to design and apply governance and compliance frameworks to cyber security risks and incidents. Advance your career in a high demand field and lead your organisation’s cyber security management strategy.

RMIT co-created this postgraduate IT qualification with IBM to skill up professionals with industry ready capabilities. Apply governance strategies and manage risk with confidence. Plan for incident-readiness and know you’re primed to respond.

Graduate Certificate of Cyber Security Governance and Risk Management

Reshape the future of healthcare by learning how to assess and deploy virtual care, electronic health records, and emerging digital health technologies.

An industry-backed qualification for healthcare and technology professionals. Explore emerging technologies and trends in digital health. Understand the importance of data. Empower patients. Deliver care digitally. Influence Australia’s wellbeing.

Graduate Certificate in Digital Health

Transform your career in User Experience (UX) Design by developing capabilities in design thinking, user research, prototyping, and more. Gain valuable hybrid skills that complement your UX skillset, and graduate with an industry-recognised portfolio.

Learn from industry experts, develop real world skills, and build a portfolio. In this course you’ll explore how to conduct user research and prototype solutions. Become the valued digital specialist who connects the business to their customer.

Graduate Certificate in User Experience Design

Develop the strategic and technical skills to solve complex cyber security issues and pursue a successful career in the industry.

Prepare to thrive in the essential field of cyber security. This globally recognised postgrad IT qualification preps you with cyber security fundamentals. Get the skills you need to manage computer security, encryption, and authentication.

Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security

Develop the digital communication strategy, story, content development, and audience engagement skills to transform your career. Learn how to create and measure creative and compelling digital campaigns.

Co-created with expert digital publishers and industry partners, this qualification is for media professionals ready to diversify in this emerging discipline. Upskill your traditional publishing approach to new media. Engage customers in the digital space.

Graduate Certificate in Digital Communication Strategy

Accelerate your career with the practical and technical skills to lead and execute a successful digital transformation.

An industry-backed qualification for business professionals. Learn how technology improves processes and productivity. Enhance your customers’ experience. Use data for decision making. Respond to the changing market and improve business outcomes.

Graduate Certificate in Digital Transformation

Learn the skills, tools and technical knowledge to retain, engage and manage customers and accelerate your career.

Discover how to find and use valuable data to learn more about your customers. Created in collaboration with industry, students of this course graduate with real world customer management tools including lifecycle maps and communications plans.

Graduate Certificate in Customer Success Management

A product management qualification for managers and business professionals. Learn to combine business, technology and design know-how to take products from strategy through to delivery.

Learn to manage the entire lifecycle of new or improved digital products. From inception to delivery, drive the team to product success. Get to know product strategy, understand how development and operations work, and explore the customer experience.

Graduate Certificate of Product Management

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Accounting for Business Decisions

In this subject, the fundamental principles and elements of international public law are examined. International public law is traditionally distinguished from other forms of international law on the basis that it primarily deals with the legal relations between nation states. Students will develop an appreciation for the general principles, rules and institutions that facilitate orderly intergovernmental relations. How and why international legal obligations are increasingly forming part of Australia’s domestic law and therefore of relevance to the legal practitioner is also discussed.
The subject will introduce students to the sources of international legal materials as well as develop research and analytical skills that draws upon judicial interpretation, identification and analysis of customary international law and the important of international treaties and agreements as a source of international legal principles and norms.

Appreciate the principles, rules and institutions that enable relations between nation states. Integrate your understanding of treaty based international law, the United Nations Security Council's role and other international courts and tribunals

International Law

Jurisprudence is the study of the phenomenon of law. While it is primarily law’s self-understanding, it involves interdisciplinary study of law as well. The subject analyses and considers the implications of the different understandings and approaches.
The subject will introduce the student to the great thinkers and ideas about law. It provides a survey of their ideas and approaches and critical analysis of those ideas and approaches. It also provides in depth analysis of contemporary and popular ideas and critiques of law. As law is a global phenomenon the degree will examine thinkers and ideas from a variety of countries and eras.
At the conclusion of this subject, students will have developed a deeper, critical and more comprehensive appreciation of the nature of law and the legal system, as well as a better understanding of the role of law (and hence lawyers) in society. The subject will provide an opportunity for students to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills as well as communication skills through class/online activities, as well as learning and assessment tasks.

Contemplate the phenomenon of law. Integrate your understanding of the political, social, historical, philosophical and economic impacts of laws. Be introduced to great thinkers and ideas to be able to formulate your own critical interpretations.

Jurisprudence

This subject is designed to equip students with a problem-solving approach that can be used to tackle wicked problems within contemporary business environments. Solutions are then framed within a business model framework, and pitched to peers and industry partners. You will identify assumptions within their business model and develop a research proposal that will address a fundamental inherent assumption within their model. The research proposal will turn the assumption into a research question, identify the appropriate ontology, epistemology, method and methodology to address that question. This subject includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context, and where feedback from industry is integral to your experience.

Grasp the key research models used to analyse and solve business problems. Adopt individual and group perspectives to discuss the business sector. Break down case studies. Run through the research project process from design to presentation.

Business Research Design

In this subject you will gain an international strategic perspective on issues that concern the organisation. The subject integrates concepts from other MBA Executive subjects that cover specific areas of operating a business such as marketing, finance, accounting, human resource management and operations management, and uses these insights to provide you with a framework to design solutions to complex business problems and opportunities. The subject covers the evolution of the field of strategy and the need to balance strategy process, content and context.
Drawing on your professional experience you will explore the importance of business ethics including a well-developed ethics of governance regime to help achieve strategic organisational goals in an international business setting.

Tackle the ethical challenges that designing business strategies can raise. Explore corporate issues from an international perspective.Combine your knowledge of business marketing, finance and human resource management and build strategic solutions.

Creating Business Strategies

This subject will introduce you to principles of real and personal property. It examines what ‘property’ is and what rights property ‘ownership’ creates. A special focus of the subject is the law relating to real property and the predominant system of land ownership in Australia - the Torrens system. Within this framework, the subject aims to familiarise you with broad concepts and some specific rules relating to the meaning and purposes of the concept of property. This covers concepts such as possession and title, the nature and type of proprietary interests; the creation of proprietary interests; legal and equitable interests; servitudes and security interests; co-ownership’ priority rules and remedies.
In addition this subject enables you to gain an understanding of the relationship between the rules of property law and other rules used to resolve conflicts between legal persons (for example, some aspects of the rules of contract law and of torts).

Examines what ‘property’ is and what rights property ‘ownership’ creates. Interrogate the concepts of possession and title, proprietary interests, legal and equitable interests, servitudes and security interests, co-ownership rules and remedies. 

Australian Property Law

This subject is an examination of the principles and elements of the criminal law. The subject examines the requirements for criminal liability, the offences of homicide and assault, sexual offences, property offences, the law of attempts and complicity in crime, criminal defences and procedural aspects of the criminal law. Students will develop an appreciation of the substantive criminal law and procedural aspects such as classification of offences, process to compel appearance, bail, preliminary examination and trial of indictable offences.

Consider the requirements for liability, homicide, assault, sexual and property offences, attempts and complicity. Comprehend procedural aspects such as offence classification, compel to appear, bail and preliminary trial of indictable offences.

Criminal Law

This subject provides you with knowledge and skills of the fundamentals of accounting in the financial decision-making process. You will examine the accounting recording and reporting system, and analyse and interpret accounting information to make decisions within an organisation. You will investigate the key measures of financial performance and develop your ability to use accounting data to make informed business decisions. You will learn to prepare a budget, undertake cash flow analysis and learn how to implement basic cost accounting tools. This subject will also introduce sustainability accounting.
This subject draws on student experience as managers in industry (including experience in operating internationally and locally), and emphasises the importance of accounting in a business context.
This subject also emphasises the importance of the practice of sound business ethics as organisations seek to achieve their business goals and objectives.

Add accounting skills and knowledge to your arsenal and use them to inform your business decisions. Run through accounting reporting and recording methods. Zero in on working capital. Explore this study area from the perspective of a business manager.

This subject examines estate and intestate succession, family maintenance and the role of executors and administrators. Topics include; nature and formalities of wills; testamentary capacity and undue influence; the operation of wills; legacies and devises; grants of probate and letters of administration, the construction of wills; intestate succession; personal representatives, administration of estates and testator&#39;s family maintenance

Hone your knowledge of estate and intestate succession, family maintenance and the role of executors and administrators. Survey the nature and formalities of wills, capacity and undue influence, legacies, probate and administration of estates

Wills and Succession

This subject explores the fundamental principles of contract law. It examines the requirements for the formation of a contract and examines the agreement, form or consideration, formalities, privity and capacity. It also considers the contents and construction of a contract, including express and implied terms, as well as excluding or limiting terms. The unit provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue further and more specific contract law studies as part of Advanced Contract Law in the Juris Doctor.

Absorb the fundamental principles of contract law by examining contracts (agreement, form or consideration, formalities, privity and capacity), contents and construction, express and implied terms, and excluding or limiting terms.  

Fundamentals of Contract Law

This subject provides you with the opportunity to engage in an in-depth study of the legal and regulatory issues associated with new and emerging technology and innovation. The coursework will focus on current issues in law and technology, examining the way that law and legal practice has adapted, or is likely to adapt, to new developments in technology, digital disruption, new business models, and new forms of governance. This subject will also consider the regulatory response in the face of innovation. This subject&#39;s content draws on Australian and international comparative materials where appropriate. The specific topics covered may vary from year to year, ensuring that the subject is at the cutting edge of technological developments and the implications for the law and legal practice.

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