Overview 2021
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the International Online Course Guide (PDF 809KB) for courses that are offered to international students
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For years prior to 2015, please view the Course and Unit Handbook Archive
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We are no longer taking applications for this version of the degree (E4Y) as from 2018.
Continuing students in this course, refer to the archived page link above for the year you commenced.
Course structure
Core Units
Organisations everywhere now operate in an environment of rapid, on-going and disruptive change. Leaders play a key role managing such change, which can include system-wide and local reforms, restructuring and innovations Often, many planned changes are not implemented in practice…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
Expectations of leaders in educational and other settings can change significantly over the course of a career. In addition to understanding individual issues of changing professional identity, self-preparation, and role transition, leaders are required to engage with heightened responsibilities when…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
Discourses of improvement often drive the practice of leadership. Rapid changes to technology, increasing globalisation, and issues of organisational structure, culture and power impact on improvement agendas as well as the quality and effectiveness of such ‘improvement’ in practice.In this…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for ESM710 Leading Organisational Improvement
This unit is an introduction to research as an inquiry. In this unit, you will consider the importance of impetus in your proposed research. You will also learn the importance of developing succinct and robust research questions. You will consider…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 1 |
View all details for ESH714 Understanding Educational Inquiry
This is an independent study project that requires the completion of an extended piece of writing such as a monograph, curriculum development document, professional development program, video, digital media output, or journal article for refereed publication. The design of the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 | ||||
Launceston | Term 1 |
Optional Units
This unit provides health and human service professionals with the opportunity to critically analyse a range of contemporary leadership frameworks and theories. There is a focus on the exploration and practical application of theories and techniques to improve understanding of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM539 Leadership in Health and Human Services
This broad unit introduces students to the interrelationship between health law and ethics, strategic planning, financial resource management and health policy development. It aims to help students develop a clear understanding of the dynamics of the healthcare environment and the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM620 Management in Health and Human Services
This unit examines current concepts, trends and barriers in risk, risk management and governance including clinical governance. In particular it explores the content and relationship between medico-legal issues; clinical error; consumer rights and services; occupational health systems; quality of service…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 1 |
This unit explores the nature of change within the broader environmental and organisational context. It will include exploration of current theories and research around issues relating to leading and managing change as well as diffusion of innovation. Strategies for successful…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for CAM722 Leading and Managing Change in Health and Human Services
This unit considers the knowledge and skills required to facilitate engaging learning experiences within applied learning settings. In the unit, you will examine the theoretical underpinnings of learner and teacher engagement in a range of contexts, including face-to-face and online,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Semester 2 |
View all details for EAL504 Facilitating Engaging Learning Experiences
This unit, which aims to deepen understandings about some key aspects of (successful) school leadership, is for those from a variety of educational settings who already occupy, or expect to occupy, positions entailing leadership. Topics covered include why school leadership…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
In this unit you will examine the nexus between learning theory and educational practice in professional contexts. You will analyse contemporary theories of adult learning and employ these critically to undertake an investigation of the application of learning strategies in…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for ESG789 Designing Learning for Professionals
Research suggests that leaders play a critical role in the ongoing development of their staff when it comes to improving complex organisations in times of rapid and disruptive change. Leaders in many organisations now hold identified and specific accountabilities for…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Launceston | Semester 2 |
This unit (comprising a three-part assessment item) is specifically designed to provide practical experience related to the concepts discussed in other parts of the Master of Education (Leadership) by having students participate in professional learning activities and programs offered in…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Leaders now hold key responsibilities for developing the human resource capacities in their organisations. During times of rapid and complex change this responsibility is increased. The professional development and on-going learning of staff, to meet changes in roles and capability…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit will give an introduction and overview to the importance of school culture. The participant will develop the skills and knowledge required to contribute to the process of building a school culture that will enable the achievement of the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit will give an introduction and overview to the benchmarks, structures and processes required to build the performance of a school. Definitions of school performance are considered in the light of the school's constitutional descriptions of its purpose and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The aim of this unit is for leaders to examine the complexity of leadership in a period of rapid and disruptive change, and to develop their self-understanding of personal leadership behaviours. The unit analyses the nexus between management and leadership…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit is aligned to the Leading Teaching Learning professional learning program from the Department of Education. The program is designed to equip aspiring leaders with an understanding of leadership that will support and improve teaching and learning, to develop…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Entry requirements
Eligibility
Continuing students in this course, refer to the archived page link above for the year you commenced. New students refer to E4R.
Detailed Admissions Information
Detailed admissions information and advice for all undergraduate courses, including comprehensive, course-level student profiles, is available from UTAS Admissions.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Detailed tuition fee information for domestic students is available at the Domestic Student Fees website, including additional information in relation to a compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
International students
International students should refer to the International Students course fees page to get an indicative course cost.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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