CRAWFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE
ANU College of Asia and the Pacic
ii CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE
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WELCOME TO THE
CRAWFORD SCHOOL
OF PUBLIC POLICY
At Crawford School of Public Policy, academic and professional staff
care deeply about our mission: to deliver high quality education, pursue
excellence in research and inuence policy debate. We seek to generate
ideas, insights and professionals with the potential to enhance public policy,
in Australia, the region, and around the world.
The Australian National University is consistently ranked as one of the top
educational institutions in Australia and a leader in international rankings.
Crawford School is one of the most dynamic public policy schools in the
world, with diverse and academically distinguished lecturers whose research
and practice inform our teaching.
Our educators inspire students to become critical thinkers and efcient
managers of public business - locally, regionally and globally. Crawford
School attracts students and staff from around the world creating a
vibrant and stimulating environment in which to learn and collaborate.
With students from over 62 different countries, you will form a network of
international connections, just from being in the classroom.
Based in Canberra, the national capital, Crawford School works closely with
other research organisations, national institutes and federal, state and local
governments. Every week we welcome eminent scholars and practitioners
from around the world for public lectures, seminars and workshops.
I understand that when considering graduate studies, you are carefully
weighing up the reputation of the university, the courses offered and the
linkages with your future career goals. I know from my own experience that
this might just be one of the most important decisions of your life.
Crawford School offers a place where you will be inspired and challenged to
achieve your academic and career goals.
I hope you choose to join us here for a world-class educational experience.
Professor Tom Kompas
Director
Crawford School of Public Policy
ANU College of Asia and the Pacic
The Australian National University
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 4
ABOUT CRAWFORD SCHOOL 6
ABOUT CANBERRA 8
COST OF LIVING 9
ACCOMMODATION 10
ADMISSIONS 11
FEES 12
GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN BRIEF 13
ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS 14
ACADEMIC SUPPORT 16
SCHOLARSHIPS 17
CRAWFORD SCHOOL PROGRAMS 18
GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN ECONOMICS 20
Master of International and Development Economics 22
Graduate Diploma in International and Development Economics 24
Graduate Certicate in International and Development Economics 25
Master of Environmental and Resource Economics 26
Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Resource Economics 27
GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 28
Master of Public Policy 30
Graduate Certicate in Public Policy 33
Master of Public Administration 34
Graduate Diploma in Public Administration 35
Graduate Certicate in Public Administration 35
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 3
CONTENTS
GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 36
Master of Environmental Management and Development 38
Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management and Development 41
Graduate Certicate in Environmental Management and Development 41
Master of Climate Change 42
COMBINED DEGREES 44
Master of Diplomacy Combined Degrees 45
AFFILIATED GRADUATE PROGRAM 46
Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development 46
DOCTORAL STUDIES AT CRAWFORD SCHOOL 50
FACULTY 52
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 59
ANU FACILITIES AND SERVICES 78
USEFUL CONTACTS 80
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The Australian National University (ANU) was established by Federal Parliament
in 1946 to lead the intellectual development of the nation through research and
education of the highest international standard. Initially a full-time research university
whose mandate was to undertake ‘postgraduate research and study both generally
and in relation to subjects of national importance’, in 1960 ANU expanded and
accepted responsibility for research-led undergraduate education at the same high
level of distinction.
ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 5
Today ANU is recognised as one of the world’s leading centres
for discovery and teaching. Our students study alongside
scholars who are at the forefront of their elds to become
people of substance and inuence in their chosen elds both at
home and abroad.
Based in the national capital, Canberra, ANU collaborates
closely with other research organisations, national institutions,
and federal, state and territory governments. Generations
of ANU scholars, teachers and graduates have made a real
contribution to the economic, cultural and social prosperity of
the nation.
ANU is the only Australian member of the International Alliance
of Research Universities (IARU) – a strategic partnership
based on a shared global vision, research-led teaching and
a commitment to educating future leaders and tackling some
of the world’s biggest challenges. Other members of IARU
are: ETH Zurich, the National University of Singapore, Peking
University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University
of Cambridge, the University of Copenhagen, the University of
Oxford, the University of Tokyo and Yale University.
ANU has consistently been Australia’s highest-ranked university
over many years and among the world’s best. In 2012 ANU
continued to perform strongly against universities around
the world rising one place from last year to 37th in the latest
Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The
result conrms the University’s climb through international
ranks following rises in 2012’s Academic Rankings of World
Universities and QS World University rankings.
The ANU has a student population of just 19,481 with
international students making up 26 per cent of students. It has
a high percentage of postgraduate students in comparison to
other universities (44 per cent) and it is the number one recipient
of Australian government research funding. The ANU campus
is nestled on 145 hectares of beautifully maintained parklands.
The landscaped campus contains all the conveniences of a
small town including on-campus accommodation and a wide
range of facilities including banks, medical services, shops,
cafés, restaurants, art galleries, bookshops and a sports centre.
There are bus connections to the city, (which is a
10 minute walk away from the campus) and suburbs. The ANU
offers a dynamic academic and social life. There are over
100 clubs and societies on campus.
Our Students
ANU has 19,481 students* enrolled in total, including:
> 10,325 undergraduate students
> 3,933 masters by coursework students
> 2,685 higher-degree research students
> 2,340 other postgraduate students
> 191 non-award students
These students come from all over Australia and the world:
> 27.5 per cent of all students come from overseas
> 34 per cent of domestic undergraduate students come from
outside the Australian Capital Territory and
surrounding region
Reecting the University’s emphasis on research:
> 46 per cent of ANU students are enrolled at
postgraduate level
> 70 per cent of students undertaking undergraduate
research-focused programs (PhB) go on to undertake
higher-degree research studies
> 4,328 students live in student residences at ANU
Our Staff
ANU has 4,277 staff in total, including:
> 1,759 academic staff
> 2,518 general staff
ANU attracts some of the best staff from around Australia and
the world, giving students the opportunity to study and conduct
research under some of the world’s most gifted academics.
Reecting their high international reputation, 83 per cent of
academic staff hold PhD degrees and 10 have been admitted
to the National Academies, bringing the total admitted to date
to 260. ANU staff have been awarded $115 million in research
grants and consultancies.
Nobel Laureates at ANU
ANU researchers have been recognised in many outstanding
awards, including bit not limited to Nobel Laureates, which
include the following outstanding academics:
2011- Professor Brian Schmidt
Nobel Laureate in physics (shared) for the discovery of the
expansion of the Universe through observations of distant
supernovae. Professor Schmidt joined the ANU in 1995 and
currently teaches and undertakes research in the College of
Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Research School of
Astronomy and Astrophysics.
1996 – Professor Rolf Zinkernagel and
Professor Peter Doherty
Nobel Laureates in medicine for revolutionary work in immunology.
Professors Doherty and Zinkernagel rst met and worked together
at the John Curtin School of Medical Research.
1994 – Professor John C Harsanyi
Nobel Laureate in economics (shared) for pioneering work
on game theory, providing a new tool for economic analysis.
Professor Harsanyi taught economics at ANU from 1958 to
1961, completing some of his early research on game theory
while at the University.
1963 – Professor John Eccles
Nobel Laureate in medicine for his pioneering work on aspects
of the mammalian central nervous system. Professor Eccles
was founding Professor of Physiology at the John Curtin School
of Medical Research.
1945 – Sir Howard Florey (later Lord Florey)
Nobel Laureate in medicine (shared) for the discovery of
penicillin. Lord Florey was an early academic adviser to ANU
and Chancellor from 1965 to 1968.
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Crawford School of Public Policy is the University’s premier public policy school, serving
and inuencing Australia, Asia and the Pacic through advanced policy research and
professional education.
Crawford School is proud to be named after Sir John Crawford, a great Australian
civil servant and a distinguished leader at ANU. Sir John’s dedication to the pursuit of
scholarly excellence and his contributions to public policy inspire all staff and students
and set the standard for the School.
Crawford School graduates are leaders in their elds. Our alumni include an Australian
member of parliament, a Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, a president of the
International Organization for Standardization, a chief economist at AusAID, senior
economists at the World Bank, and academic and public sector leaders across Australia
and the Asia-Pacic region. The School has produced some of the country’s – and the
world’s – most innovative thinkers on public policy, among them economists, political
scientists, social scientists, policy analysts and journalists.
ABOUT CRAWFORD SCHOOL
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 7
Crawford School’s main purpose and mission is to offer:
> World-class education
> High-quality research
> Substantial contributions to policy
World-class Education
Crawford School offers the following Master degrees:
Policy and Governance
> Public Policy
> Public Administration
Economics
> International and Development Economics
> Environmental and Resource Economics
Environment and Development
> Environmental Management and Development
> Climate Change (jointly with the Fenner School of
Environment and Society, ANU College of Medicine, Biology
and Environment)
Afliated Degree
> Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory
Development (jointly delivered by the ANU College of Asia and
the Pacic and the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences)
Combined Degrees
> Master of Diplomacy/Master of International and
Development Economics
> Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy
> Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy Specialising in
Development Policy
> Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy Specialising in
International Policy
> Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Administration
> Master of Diplomacy/Master of Environmental Management
and Development
Students can choose from among Crawford School’s wide
range of graduate-level courses. With exible degree programs,
students may also select other courses of interest to them from
many different areas throughout ANU.
Crawford School aims to provide a supportive learning
environment for students. To help them achieve their academic
goals, the School makes available:
> academic and research skills advisers
> program managers and ofcers
> student advisers
> student services ofcers
> PhD academic skills advisers
> scholarship liaison ofcers
High Quality Research
> In 2011, Crawford School academic staff published over
90 journal articles, authored books, book chapters and
conference papers in international scholarly and peer-
reviewed publications.
> The School currently has 20 research centres focusing on policy
issues in areas such as climate change, water, social policy,
poverty, economics, environmental economics and governance.
> The School hosts the HC Coombs Policy Forum, a strategic
initiative between the Australian Government and ANU
which focuses on supporting policy-relevant exploratory and
experimental work at the interface between government
and academia.
> The School has a regional focus extending beyond Australia
to Asia and the Pacic.
Substantial Contributions to Policy
Crawford School faculty members frequently engage in high-level
policymaking processes. Highlights include:
‘Australia in the Asian Century’ Australian Government White
Paper: Ken Henry and Peter Drysdale
Crawford School Memorandum of Understanding with Tasmanian
Government on Asian Century White Paper:
Peter Drysdale and Mark Matthews
Murray-Darling Basin Authority Advisory Committee on Social,
Economic and Environmental Issues: Tom Kompas
UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary
Governance: Quentin Grafton
Report of the Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness:
Stephen Howes
World Bank PREM (Public Sector Governance Unit):
Björn Dressel
Bradley Review of Higher Education: Bruce Chapman
Fijian Government Advice on Children: Sharon Bessell
Australian Government Tax Forum: Peter Whiteford
International Climate Change Panel: Frank Jotzo
Eminent Scientists Group providing independent advice to the
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry:
Tom Kompas
Australian Defence College (ADC): Renee McKibbin
WWF Australia’s Scientic Advisory Committee: Colin Filer
Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute (GMPI), Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas: Ippei Fujiwara
United Nations Development Programme: Ben Hillman
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Canberra is Australia’s national capital and the seat of the
Australian Federal Parliament. Diplomats from all over the world
live in Canberra, adding greatly to its political importance and
multicultural avour. Canberra is a planned city located within
the self-governing Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It has a
population of over 370,700.
Canberra is a major cultural centre for Australia, with many
attractions of national signicance. These include the National
Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, the
National Museum of Australia, the National Library of Australia,
the National Archives of Australia, the Australian War Memorial,
the National Science and Technology Centre (Questacon) and the
Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra’s many national institutions
provide a valuable cultural and political backdrop to life in the
capital, as well as accessible resources for students.
The ANU commands a magnicent position in the centre of
Canberra between the shores of Lake Burley Grifn and the
slopes of Black Mountain. The campus reects the natural
environment of the city, with pleasant natural expanses
surrounding the buildings. The main campus occupies
145 hectares and is just a ve-minute bike ride from the city.
Canberra is within easy driving distance of Australia’s largest city
and a range of natural attractions. It is located approximately
three hours’ drive southwest of Sydney and seven hours’ drive
north of Melbourne. For those who enjoy the ocean, it is just
a two-hour drive to the beautiful beaches of the south coast
of New South Wales. For those who enjoy the bush, Namadji
National Park, covering 1,000 square kilometres, is right on
Canberra’s doorstep. And for those who enjoy the snow, the
Snowy Mountains alpine region is just a few hours away.
A City of Four Seasons
The residents of Canberra enjoy the delights of four distinct
seasons. The city is known for its blue skies and sunshine nearly
all year round. The climate is best described as continental –
warm summers and cool winters. The hottest month is January
and the coldest month is July. Even on the coldest of days in
winter, there is a good chance that the sun will be shining, as
Canberra winters are generally quite dry. If you’re coming to
Canberra, make sure you bring plenty of warm clothes, but also
hats and sunscreen for the summer!
For more information on Canberra, visit
www.canberrayourfuture.com.au
www.visitcanberra.com.au
www.canberratimes.com.au
ABOUT CANBERRA
Canberra is a major cultural
centre for Australia, with
many attractions of national
signicance.
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 9
Student Visa Living Costs
The Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship
(DIAC) requires that Universities ensure international students
studying in Australia are aware of their nancial obligations
and have sufcient funds to support themselves and any
dependents during their studies.
You will be required to certify that you will have funds available
for travel to and from Australia, payment of the tuition fees and
living expenses for you and your dependents for each year of
your program of study. The department’s current requirements
are as follows (as of 1 July 2012):
> $18,610 per year for the main student
> $6,515 per year for the student’s partner
> $3,720 per year for the student’s rst child
> $2,790 per year for every other child
> $9,500 per year (approx) for each child of school age to
cover the cost of schooling.
For more information, visit
www.immi.gov.au/students/student-visa-living-costs.htm
COST OF LIVING
A Guide to Expenses
While it is not possible to provide precise gures on living
expenses in Australia, the following guide should give you a
rough idea of how much you will need. These gures do not
include tuition fees or the cost of clothing, medicine, mobile
phones and the like.
Accommodation - single (based on cost
of lowest on-campus room)
$175+ per week*
Food $120 per week
Photocopying, textbooks, stationery $20 per week
Transport $20 per week
Entertainment $28 per week
Phone, internet (not including mobile phone) $15 per week
Incidentals $20 per week
Health cover $7.50 per week
Total (52 weeks)
$21,086 per year
* Off campus accommodation for families - expect to pay
$400+ for a three bedroom house/unit (medium price)
International Students – Working While Studying
Graduate Diploma students are permitted to work a maximum
of 20 hours per week during the term and unlimited hours
when their academic course is not in session. Dependent
family members can work a maximum of 20 hours per week
throughout the year.
Master and PhD students are permitted to work a maximum of
20 hours per week during the term and unlimited hours when
their academic course is not in session. Dependent family
members can work full-time throughout the year.
Although your visa permits you to work you should not rely on
work to support yourself in Australia as a student.
PhD students need to balance their employment hours with the
demands of their candidature as the University believes that
employment for a full-time candidate in excess of 20 hours a
week can have a negative effect on the successful completion
of their program. They should discuss their employment
commitments with their supervisor and Delegated Authority
and they will be required to give an estimate of their hours of
employment in their Annual Reports.
Estimate of Costs (in Australian dollars)
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The university has about 5,000 single rooms available
on-campus. This is the highest number and cheapest on-campus
accommodation of all Australian universities and provides many
benets to inspire a real university community feel on campus.
Many international students choose to live in this type of
accommodation because of its convenience and proximity to
lecture theatres and libraries. One of the most popular residences
for postgraduate international students is Toad Hall, a
self-catering postgraduate residence at the edge of the campus
and close to the city. You should apply for accommodation as
soon as you make your application to the university. On-campus
accommodation costs vary between residences. University
accommodation does not cater for families.
The University’s on-campus residences and rental properties
are in high demand, and accommodation cannot be
guaranteed. Students are therefore advised to investigate private
accommodation as well. Do not arrive in Canberra without
conrmed accommodation.
University Accommodation (UA) provides a variety of services
to the ANU community to help students nd accommodation.
UA is the main point of contact for on-campus residential
accommodation for students who are not accompanied by
their family. UA can provide information about how to go about
renting, off-campus housing and shared accommodation,
but are unable to actually nd a premise on your behalf in the
private market.
For more information, visit accom.anu.edu.au
ACCOMMODATION
IMPORTANT: If you have applied for admission to ANU, you
should apply immediately for accommodation. Do not wait until
you have received an offer of admission from the University. Your
registration for accommodation is independent of your application
for admission. Keep checking the UA website for important dates
and news. The online application form allows you to list one
preference only for accommodation. There is no application fee for
online applications and no penalty if you decide to live elsewhere.
One application covers all types of residences.
Students with Families
ANU student residences are not suitable for children and no
facilities for children are provided. Living off-campus is the only
option for families with children, and allows them to be closer to
schools and other family-oriented services.
For information about private accommodation in Canberra, visit
accom.anu.edu.au
www.canberratimes.com.au
www.allhomes.com.au
www.domain.com.au
www.ljhooker.com.au
IMPORTANT: Before renting privately, you MUST read through
the information on the University Accommodation website
carefully. It is important to know your rights and obligations
before entering into any contract. You should NOT pay any
money for accommodation until you have:
> viewed the accommodation YOURSELF
> signed an ‘Inventory Condition Report’
> signed a legal contract for the duration of a specied lease.
Beware of scams: Protect yourself from online rental scams
– www.scamwatch.gov.au. DO NOT SEND ANY MONEY for
online promises of shared accommodation until you have
arrived in Canberra and viewed the accommodation yourself. If
you are unsure about your accommodation, please seek advice
from UA or from the staff at Crawford School.
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Application Method
‘Domestic’ students are citizens of Australia or New Zealand or
permanent residents of Australia. Students who do not fall into
these categories are classied as ‘international’ students.
All students must apply directly to Crawford School or ANU.
Direct applications can be made either on hard copy or online.
Online
Applications should be made online if you have internet access
at applyonline.anu.edu.au
Search for ANU College of Asia and Pacic within the Academic
Group drop-down menu. International students will be charged
an application fee.
By Post
If you do not have internet access, application details and
application forms can be sourced from
www.anu.edu.au/sas/admission/
or by contacting the Program Manager in your program of
choice (see contact details on page 80). Your application should
be made directly to the ANU Admissions Ofce. International
students will be charged an application fee.
ADMISSIONS
IMPORTANT: Please ensure that the following are included
with your application:
> an up-to-date detailed resume
> IELTS result where required
> certied copy of your academic transcript
Public Policy students should also check additional entry
requirements with the Program Manager.
International students applying for a scholarship should state
clearly on their application form which scholarship they have
applied for.
When completing the application form, use the CRICOS Code
(international students only), Program Code and Degree Title.
Details of these are found in the Fees Table.
Courses may have additional admission requirements. For more
information, contact the relevant Program Manager or visit
studyat.anu.edu.au/graduate.html
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* Domestic Students = Australian Citizens and
Permanent Residents
^ Indicative annual fee for the rst year only. Second
year fee will comprise the Master of Diplomacy fee
(A$22,567 for international students, A$16,065 for domestic
students) plus any thesis study for the rst degree if applicable
Note: The above fees are indicative only and may change from
year to year. For further information and up-to-date details on
fees, including the Universities comprehensive refund policy,
visit students.anu.edu.au/fees/
FEES
CRICOS Code Program
Code
Degree Title Domestic Fee International
Fee ($Aus)
Master Degree Indicative Fee per annum
036808G 7101 Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development $18,912 $28,678
064772D 7824 Master of Climate Change $27,312 $31,600
054601F 7823 Master of Environmental and Resource Economics $27,312 $31,600
029997M 7804 Master of Environmental Management and Development $27,312 $31,600
048351C 7822 Master of International and Development Economics $27,312 $31,600
043222G 7808 Master of Public Administration $27,312 $31,600
012473A 7102 Master of Public Policy $27,312 $31,600
Graduate Diploma
054602E 6823 Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Resource Economics $27,432 $30,240
012059D 6805 Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management and Development $27,312 $31,600
048352B 6822 Graduate Diploma in International and Development Economics $27,432 $30,240
043223G 6808 Graduate Diploma in Public Administration $27,312 $31,600
Graduate Certicate
013520B 6904 Graduate Certicate in Environmental Management and Development $13,656 $15,800
048332F 6922 Graduate Certicate in International and Development Economics $13,716 $15,120
043224F 6908 Graduate Certicate in Public Administration $13,656 $15,800
013138G 6192 Graduate Certicate in Public Policy $13,656 $15,800
Combined Master Degree
051830F 7894 Master of Diplomacy/Master of Environmental Management and Development $27,312^ $31,600^
048417A 7890 Master of Diplomacy/Master of International and Development Economics $27,312^ $31,600^
052407B 7895 Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Administration $27,312^ $31,600^
051778E 7888 Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy $27,312^ $31,600^
048414D 7888 Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy specialising in Development Policy $27,312^ $31,600^
048413E 7888 Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy specialising in International Policy $27,312^ $31,600^
PhD Degree
048357G 9540 Doctor of Philosophy - $31,584
Introductory Academic Program
IAP / Preparatory Program $3,600
Indicative fees for Crawford School’s Master and PhD programs in 2013 are set out below
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General Admission Requirements for a one year
Master degree:
Applicants should normally hold:
1. qualications equivalent to a degree of Bachelor with rst or
upper second class Honours from an Australian University
OR
2. a Graduate Diploma in equivalent eld to the Master degree
awarded by the Australian National University with an
average of 65 per cent or above
OR
3. an equivalent combination of postgraduate study in the
equivalent eld of study and relevant work experience, as
determined by the Delegated Authority.
Note: MPP and MPA also require three years working
experience as a minimum
Courses may have additional admission requirements. For
the most accurate information, contact the relevant Program
Manager or visit studyat.anu.edu.au/graduate.html
Master Programs - Structure of degree programs for
international students
The usual progression for an international student who does not
have the equivalent to a degree of Bachelor with rst or second
class Honours from an Australian University is to complete a one
year Graduate Diploma (available to all streams) as an articulated
program into the one year Master degree program.
Therefore, the usual time it takes to complete the Master degree
is two years. However, depending on the academic background
and working experience each application is considered on its
merits and may either be offered a one year, one and a half year
or two year program.
All applications will be carefully considered and an academic
decision on whether the minimum entry requirements have
been met will be made and an offer for the appropriate program
will be recommended accordingly. No student will be admitted
directly to the one year Master degree who does not meet our
minimum academic entry requirements.
Note: A Bachelor degree with Honours is equivalent to at least
a three year undergraduate degree PLUS one full academic year
undertaking independent research (15,000 – 20,000 words)
and advanced coursework units. Only those students with an
excellent GPA in their Bachelor degree are invited to take up an
Honours year.
International students must also complete the ve week
Academic Preparatory Program prior to the beginning of their
degree program.
Duration
A one-year, full-time degree program will usually comprise two
semesters of study (or equivalent). Each semester you will
normally complete the equivalent of four courses (24 units).
Similarly, a two-year, full-time degree program will usually
comprise four semesters of study.
Semester Intake
Most degree programs have two intakes per year and can be
started in either Semester 1 (late February) or Semester 2
(mid-July). The Master of Diplomacy, which is a part of a
combined masters program, can ONLY be commenced in
Semester 1, therefore you will be required to complete your rst
master degree program accordingly.
Study Type
A graduate coursework program will comprise coursework (CW)
or a combination of both coursework and research (CW&R).
Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management and
Development PRIOR TO:
> Master of Environmental Management and Development
> Master of Climate Change
Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Resource Economics
PRIOR TO:
> Master of Environmental and Resource Economics
Graduate Diploma in International and Development Economics
PRIOR TO:
> Master of International and Development Economics
Graduate Diploma in Public Administration PRIOR TO:
> Master of Public Administration (MPA)
> Master of Public Policy (MPP)
> Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory
Development (MAAPD)
The Master of Public Policy can also be taken in any of the
following specialisations:
> Master of Public Policy specialising in Policy Analysis
> Master of Public Policy specialising in Development Policy
> Master of Public Policy specialising in Economic Policy
> Master of Public Policy specialising in Environmental Law
> Master of Public Policy specialising in Environmental Policy
> Master of Public Policy specialising in International Policy
> Master of Public Policy specialising in Social Policy
Courses may have additional admission requirements. For more
information, contact the relevant Program Manager or visit
studyat.anu.edu.au/graduate.html
GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN
BRIEF
14 CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE
The ANU accepts either the IELTS or the TOEFL results to meet
the English language requirement for admission.
International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
The minimum requirement for all programs is an overall IELTS
score of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component of the test.
Exceptions: Students on development assistance scholarships
(for example, AusAID, ADB Bank, World Bank, BECAS Chile,
SENESCYT Ecuador etc scholarships) who enrol in the two
year Graduate Diploma + Master degree and who meet all other
requirements, are able to enter with a slightly lower IELT result.
Concurrent academic skills are provided during to this group.
Students must obtain an overall IELTS score of 6.0 with a
minimum of 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in the remaining components
of the test.
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
The minimum requirement for all programs is a total score of
90 on the Internet Based Test with a minimum of score of 20 in
all four sections of the test.
Exceptions: Students on development assistance scholarships
(see above reference).
Students must obtain a total score of 79 on the Internet Based Test
with 20 in writing and 18 in the other three sections of the test.
Visas and Language Requirements
Evidence of competence in English is a condition for obtaining
a student visa in some countries. Assessment Level 3 and
Level 4 countries accept IELTS tests only for visa applications.
Students on Visa Subclass 576 AusAID are considered
Assessment Level 2. For more information, contact the closest
Australian diplomatic mission or visit www.immi.gov.au
ANU Access English Program (CRICOS Code 045067J)
International students who do not meet Crawford School’s
language requirements may apply to enter the University’s
Access English program. This is a 10-week English language
and academic preparation course offered by ANU College.
Applicants must have the following minimum English language
capability:
> IELTS: a score of 6.0 with no band below 5.5
OR
> TOEFL: a score of 78 on the Internet Based Test.
Successful completion of the ANU Access English Program
(a score of at least 60 per cent) enables students to full the
English language requirement for ANU degree programs. ANU
College also offers a number of other preparatory English
language programs (for example, ELICOS) that may be more
suitable for students depending on their current level of English.
For more information, visit www.anucollege.com.au
ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 15
CRAWFORD SCHOOL
ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
IELTS:
Overall 6.5 with no band below 6.0
TOEFL:
Overall 90: Internet based test with
no band below 20
IELTS:
Overall 6.0 with writing 6.0 and no
other band below 5.5
GRADUATE
DIPLOMA
MASTER
TOEFL:
Overall 79: Internet based test with
writing 20 and no other band below 18
IELTS:
Overall 6.0 with no band below 5.5
TOEFL:
Overall 78: Internet based test with
no band below 19
ACCESS ENGLISH
PROGRAM
(ANU COLLEGE)
10 WEEKS
These English
scores are only
accepted if you are on
development assistance
scholarships, eg
AusAID, ADB* or WB**
* ADB: Asian Development Bank
** WB: World Bank
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Crawford School has a strong tradition of academic and
research skills delivery. Our Academic and Research Skills
professionals support students in making a smooth transition or
return to study.
Introductory Academic Program (IAP) and Induction Program
International students (non-Australian citizens) are usually
required to attend and satisfactorily complete the Introductory
Academic Program (IAP) before beginning their postgraduate
coursework. IAP’s are held in January and June, before the
start of each semester. The IAP includes an introduction to
postgraduate academic study, academic reading and writing,
presentation skills, research techniques and information and
computer literacy skills. The IAP also covers basic concepts in
economics, environmental science, statistics, microeconomics,
macroeconomics and mathematics, depending on the
students’ degree.
Australian students and permanent residents of Australia
are invited to an Induction Program before the start of each
semester, at which program staff provide a comprehensive
brieng to new students.
Academic Support during semesters
Discipline-specic Academic Skills Advisers are available to
support students in further developing their skills in academic
reading and writing, research, tutorial/seminar participation and
presentations, and examination preparation.
Students can attend regular group sessions in discipline-specic
academic skills. They can also meet their program Academic Skills
Adviser for a one-on-one consultation about their written work and
other academic skills development throughout their course.
An Academic and Research Skills Adviser is also available for
PhD students.
ACADEMIC SUPPORT
Our academic and research skills
program enables students to make
a smooth transition to study.
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 17
International Students Only
The Australian Government supports Crawford School’s
graduate programs at all levels. In addition to Australian
Development Scholarships, Australian Leadership Awards
and Endeavour scholarships, Crawford School is endowed
with several prestigious international scholarships. The Asian
Development Bank, for example, has chosen Crawford School to
educate Master degree students from key government agencies
throughout the developing world. Crawford School also manages
scholarships for the Ford Foundation International Fellowships
Program and receives World Bank scholars.
Other countries in our region routinely send their senior leaders to
study at Crawford School on government scholarships.
For example, the Vietnamese, Sri Lankan and Indonesian State
Banks; and government ministries from Bhutan, Indonesia and
Korea send a number of Master degree scholars each year to
study at Crawford School.
For further information about scholarships available to citizens in
your country visit: www.crawford.anu.edu.au/future_students/
Domestic Students Only
Domestic students who study full time may be eligible to apply
for the following funding:
Austudy
The Master of Environmental Management and Development
and the Master of Climate Change have been listed with
Centrelink as approved degrees for student income support
(that is, Youth Allowance for students aged 25 and under or
Austudy for those aged over 25 years). To be eligible to claim
student income support you must be enrolled full-time and
be studying on campus. Note: Full-time is dened as at least
three-quarters of the standard full-time load.
For more information and application details, visit
www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/austudy
Commonwealth Scholarships Program
The Master of Environmental Management and Development
and the Master of Climate Change have been listed as
approved degrees for the Australian Commonwealth
Scholarships Program.
For more information about this program, and eligibility criteria,
visit www.innovation.gov.au/highereducation/studentsupport/
commonwealthscholarships/pages/default.aspx
PhD Scholarships
ANU funds and administers a range of scholarships for PhD
study for both domestic and international students. It also
administers a number of scholarships funded by the Australian
government and other sources external to the University. The
University’s aim is to attract research degree applicants who
have a proven capacity for research.
For more information on scholarships for higher-degree
research, visit http://students.anu.edu.au/scholarships/gr/
SCHOLARSHIPS
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ECONOMICS POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
Graduate Diploma in
Environmental and
Resource Economics
Master of Environmental
and Resource Economics
Graduate Certicate
in International and
Development Economics
Graduate Diploma
in International and
Development Economics
Graduate Certicate in
Public Administration
Graduate Certicate in
Public Policy
Master of Public
Administration
Master of Public Policy
(Development Policy)
(Economic Policy)
(Environmental Law)
(Environmental Policy)
(Policy Analysis)
(International Policy)
(Social Policy)
Graduate Diploma in Public
Administration
Master of Public Policy
Master of International
and Development
Economics
CRAWFORD SCHOOL PROGRAMS
ENVIRONMENT AND
DEVELOPMENT
Graduate Certicate
in Environmental
Management and
Development
Graduate Diploma in
Environmental Management
and Development
Master of Environmental
Management and
Development
Master of Climate Change
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 19
AFFILIATED GRADUATE
PROGRAM
COMBINED DEGREES DOCTORAL STUDIES
Master of Applied
Anthropology and
Participatory Development
Economics
Political Science and
International Relations
Public Policy
Master of Diplomacy/
Master of International and
Development Economics
Master of Diplomacy/Master
of Public Policy Specialising
in Development Policy or
International Policy
Master of Diplomacy/
Master of Public Policy
Master of Diplomacy/
Master of Public
Administration
Master of Diplomacy/
Master of Environmental
Management and
Development
Environmental
and Resource
Management
Economic Policy
20 CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE
ECONOMICS
PROGRESSION GUIDE
POSSIBLE
PHD
ONE YEAR GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN:
> International and Development Economics
> Environmental and Resource Economics
An Australian bachelor
degree, with a
relevant major, or its
international equivalent
SIX MONTHS GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN:
> International and Development Economics
ONE YEAR MASTER OF:
> International and Development Economics
> Environmental and Resource Economics
An Australian bachelor
degree with at least
second-class, division
A Honours, with a
relevant major or its
international equivalent
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 21
Master of International and Development Economics 22
Graduate Diploma in International and Development Economics 24
Graduate Certicate in International and Development Economics 25
Master of Environmental and Resource Economics 26
Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Resource Economics 27
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
IN ECONOMICS
22 CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE
The Master of International and Development Economics provides students with world-class training in applied economics and its
application to economic policy. In addition to courses in applied economic theory and econometrics, students are able to choose
electives that will allow them to specialise in the areas of their choice.
Master of International and Development
Economics
(CRICOS 048351C)
CRWF8001 Economic Globalisation and the Environment
CRWF8003 International Water Politics
CRWF8004 Case Studies in Economic Policy
CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy
and Economics
CRWF8009 Energy Politics and Governance
CRWF8011 The Global Trading System
CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change Policy Economics
CRWF8016 Food Wars: Food Security and Agricultural Policy
CRWF8017 Energy Economics
ECON8002 Applied Welfare Economics
ECON8006 International Trade Theory
ECON8008 Japanese Economy and Economic Policy
ECON8010 Public Economics
ECON8014 Mathematical Techniques in Economics II
ECON8015 International Economics
ECON8034 Principles of Public Economics
ECON8037 Financial Economics
ECON8041 Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
ECON8047 Law and Economics
ECON8049 Southeast Asian Economic Policy
and Development
ECON8053 Strategic Thinking: An Introduction to
Game Theory
ECON8059 Mathematical Economics
EMDV8001 Environmental Sustainability, Health
and Development
EMDV8002 Methods for Environmental Decision-making
EMDV8007 Environmental Policy and Communications
EMET8001 Applied Micro-econometrics
EMET8002 Case Studies in Applied Econometrics
EMET8010 Applied Macro and Financial Econometrics
EMET8012 Business and Economic Forecasting
EMET8014 Fundamentals of Econometric Methods
IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy
IDEC8009 Trade, Development and the
Asia-Pacic Economy
IDEC8010 Quantitative International Economics
IDEC8011 Masters Research Essay
IDEC8012 Monetary Policy and Central Banking
in the Asia Pacic
IDEC8014 Banking, Finance and Monetary Policy in the
Asia-Pacic Region
IDEC8017 Econometric Techniques
IDEC8018 Agricultural Economics and Resource Policy
IDEC8021 The Chinese Economy
IDEC8022 Economic Development
IDEC8025 Empirical Public Finance
IDEC8026 Quantitative Policy Impact Evaluation
IDEC8027 Infrastructure Regulation Economics and Policy
IDEC8053 Environmental Economics
IDEC8081 The Economics of Incentives and Institutions
IDEC8083 The Role of Financial Markets and Instruments
for Economic Management and Development
IDEC8088 Applied Economics: Cost-Benet Analysis
POGO8004 Poverty Reduction
POGO8057 Managing Government Finances
POGO8076 Corruption and Anti-corruption
Program Structure
Number of courses: 8 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 3 (18 units)
Elective courses: 5 (30 units)
Compulsory Courses
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
IDEC8008 Open Economy Macroeconomics, Finance and Development
IDEC8064 Masters Microeconomics
Elective Courses
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 23
Or electives from other related teaching areas at Crawford School or throughout ANU that meets the approval of the Program Director.
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 for details or visit www.anu.edu.au/midec
MIDEC Specialisations
Students who are undertaking a Master of International and Development Economics can choose to specialise in a eld of their choice.
Possible areas of specialisation are illustrated below.
International Trade, Growth and Finance
Banking, Monetary Policy and Economic Development
Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Policy and Development
Quantitative Methods and Economic Modelling
Business Development and Economic Policy in a Market Economy
Alexandre Dayant, a student who wants to bring positive
change to the world through his Master of International
Development Economics (MIDEC).
Alexandre Dayant has studied at the Sorbonne and at Harvard, so he
knows a good university when he sees one.
“When I arrived at ANU, I was thrilled,” he says.
“The teachers we have here are very, very good, especially at
Crawford School of Public Policy, which is well-ranked in the world
among the schools of public policy and economics. In comparison to
France, you have very close contact with your teachers. Beyond the
basic contact in class, you can go and have a conversation with them
very easily.”
Alex is in the MIDEC program after deciding he wanted to move away
from banking and nance to work in development.
Alex says alongside the University’s Australian National Internships
Program, one of the benets to studying at Crawford School is its
‘cultural diversity’.
As the ANU Postgraduate and Research Students’ Association’s
Social Ofcer, “I organise all the events for the students’ association.
One week ago I organised a surf trip with sixty people, two weeks
ago we did sheep shearing on a farm. These are cultural aspects
that all the international students want to see, in order to experience
Australian culture.”
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Graduate Diploma in International
and Development Economics
(CRICOS 048352B)
Program Structure
Number of courses: 6 (36 units)
Compulsory courses: 5 (30 units)
Elective courses: 1 (6 units)
Compulsory Courses
IDEC8002 Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy
IDEC8003 Issues in Development Policy
IDEC8015 Mathematical Methods in Applied Economics
IDEC8016 Microeconomic Analysis and Policy
IDEC8017 Econometric Techniques
Elective Courses
IDEC8001 Applied Economics: Cost/Benet Analysis
or other elective as approved by the Program Director.
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 or visit crawford.anu.edu.au/degree_programs/content/diploma_cert/idec.php
Please note the structure of this program will be changing for 2014, please check the website for the revised changes.
The Graduate Diploma in International and Development Economics is designed to give students a solid training in basic economic
principles and techniques. The degree also serves as a springboard to more advanced training at the Master level. The course
has a strong analytical and quantitative component, and students should be capable of undertaking studies in mathematics and
statistics at an advanced level.
Arjuna Mohottala, is shining the torch on the nancial costs
of energy use in Asia and the Pacic with his Master of
International and Development Economics (MIDEC).
“I was working in the IT and nance sector for about six years, before I joined the Central
Bank of Sri Lanka and became an economist. It was that transition which really got me
liking economics, and wanting to make a career out of it.
“I was looking through certain journal papers and publications, and came across the
name of Stephen Howes from Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU. I wrote to him
directly explaining my background and asking about the prospects of coming to ANU.”
Stephen responded positively. “From my initial email to me physically being here took
less than three weeks.”
Arjuna is now pursuing a master’s with a view to doing a PhD at ANU, with a focus on
energy economics and its impact on the nancial markets of Asia and the Pacic.
“The good thing about ANU is the libraries are well equipped and the faculty are very
approachable. You don’t have to wait for consultation hours. Sometimes you will email
them and they’ll reply in the wee hours of the morning. That has really helped me in my
learning and got me to take more challenging subjects. And I’ve been loving it!”
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 25
Graduate Certificate in International
and Development Economics
(CRICOS 048332F)
Program Structure
Number of courses: 3 (18 units)
Compulsory courses: 2 (12 units)
Elective courses: 1 (6 units)
Courses
Courses are usually chosen from those listed below. One alternative elective course (6 units) may be approved by the Program Director.
IDEC8001 Applied Economics: Cost/Benet Analysis
IDEC8002 Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy
IDEC8003 Issues in Development Policy
IDEC8015 Mathematical Methods in Applied Economics
IDEC8016 Microeconomic Analysis and Policy
IDEC8017 Econometric Techniques
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 or visit crawford.anu.edu.au/future_students/diploma_cert/cert_idec.php
The Graduate Certicate in International and Development Economics allows students who are unable to complete the Graduate
Diploma or Master degree to receive certication by completing three courses over one year, or intensively during one semester.
The course has a strong analytical and quantitative component, and students should be capable of undertaking studies in
mathematics and statistics at an advanced level. Bridging courses in mathematics, economics and statistics are available.
Laura Navarro, someone who has been inspired to
think big and take on the world thanks to her Master of
International and Development Economics (MIDEC).
Laura Navarro says when she found the MIDEC program at ANU it ticked the boxes
of everything she was looking for.
“I have a background in international studies, and professionally I worked as a
research assistant for many years in the Department of Asia Pacic Studies at the
University of Guadalajara back home in Mexico, so I always had that intellectual
curiosity for this region.
“Plus, I was in Australia years ago doing an exchange so I knew it had to be
Australia. I loved Australia.”
Laura says her perspective has changed not just academically, but beyond that, to
how she envisions her future.
“I feel like I will graduate with a prestigious degree, and that starts to open doors
of possibilities for you. I’ve started thinking, ‘What if I apply to the UN Young
Professionals Program?’ And I’ve always had my eye on the Young Professionals
Program of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington too. Everything you
learn here, it gives you the level you need to apply for something like that.”
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Master of Environmental and
Resource Economics
(CRICOS 054601F)
CRWF8001 Economic Globalisation and the Environment
CRWF8003 International Water Politics
CRWF8004 Case Studies in Economic Policy
CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy
and Economics
CRWF8009 Energy Politics and Governance
CRWF8011 The Global Trading System
CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change Policy Economics
CRWF8016 Food Wars: Food Security and
Agricultural Policy
CRWF8017 Energy Economics
ECON8002 Applied Welfare Economics
ECON8006 International Trade Theory
ECON8008 Japanese Economy and Economic Policy
ECON8010 Public Economics
ECON8014 Mathematical Techniques in Economics II
ECON8015 International Economics
ECON8034 Principles of Public Economics
ECON8037 Financial Economics
ECON8041 Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
ECON8047 Law and Economics
ECON8049 Southeast Asian Economic Policy
and Development
ECON8053 Strategic Thinking: An Introduction to
Game Theory
ECON8059 Mathematical Economics
EMDV8001 Environmental Sustainability, Health and
Development
EMDV8002 Methods for Environmental Decision-making
EMDV8007 Environmental Policy and Communications
EMDV8027 Environmental Accounting and Planning
EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
EMET8001 Applied Micro-econometrics
EMET8002 Case Studies in Applied Econometrics
EMET8010 Applied Macro and Financial Econometrics
EMET8012 Business and Economic Forecasting
EMET8014 Fundamentals of Econometric Methods
IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy
IDEC8008 Open Economy Macroeconomics, Finance
and Development
IDEC8009 Trade, Development and the
Asia-Pacic Economy
IDEC8010 Quantitative International Economics
IDEC8011 Masters Research Essay
IDEC8012 Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the
Asia Pacic
IDEC8014 Banking, Finance and Monetary Policy in the
Asia-Pacic Region
IDEC 8017 Econometric Techniques
IDEC8021 The Chinese Economy
IDEC8022 Economic Development
IDEC8025 Empirical Public Finance
IDEC8026 Quantitative Policy Impact Evaluation
IDEC8027 Infrastructure Regulation Economics
and Policy
IDEC8081 The Economics of Incentives and Institutions
IDEC8083 The Role of Financial Markets and
Instruments for Economic Management and
Development
IDEC8088 Applied Economics: Cost-Benet Analysis
POGO8004 Poverty Reduction
POGO8057 Managing Government Finances
POGO8076 Corruption and Anti-corruption
Or electives from other related teaching areas at Crawford School or throughout ANU that meets the approval of the Program Director.
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 for details or visit crawford.anu.edu.au/degree_programs/content/master/ere.php
The objective of the Master of Environmental and Resource Economics degree is to provide students with rigorous, specialist training
in economics and the environment. The degree is designed for individuals with a strong background in economics. On completion
of the degree, all students will have well-developed skills in quantitative analysis and modelling, and a good understanding of the
economic approaches to resolving the challenges of resource overexploitation and misuse of the environment. Graduates are in high
demand. They have found employment in research, in policy analysis and as consultants in Australia and overseas.
Program Structure
Number of courses: 8 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 4 (24 units)
Elective courses: 4 (24 units)
Compulsory Courses
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
IDEC8018 Agricultural Economics and Resource Policy
IDEC8053 Environmental Economics
IDEC8064 Masters Microeconomics
Elective Courses
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 27
CRWF8001 Economic Globalisation and
the Environment
CRWF8004 Case Studies in Economic Policy
CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change
Policy Economics
EMDV8001 Environmental Sustainability,
Health and Development
EMDV8007 Environmental Policy and Communications
EMDV8026 Introduction to Environmental Science
EMDV8078 Introduction to Environmental and
Resource Economics
EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
IDEC8002 Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy
IDEC8003 Issues in Development Policy
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 for details or visit crawford.anu.edu.au/future_students/diploma_cert/ere.php
Graduate Diploma in Environmental
and Resource Economics
(CRICOS 054602E)
The Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Resource Economics is designed to meet the needs of students who wish to work
in the policy, business or non-government communities where skills in applied economics are required. It can be used as a
bridge for those people in other disciplines who wish to develop skills in environmental and resource economics. The diploma
has a strong analytical and quantitative component, and students should be capable of undertaking studies in mathematics and
statistics at an advanced level. Students who complete the Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Resource Economics with an
average of 65 per cent or more may be admitted to the Master of Environmental and Resource Economics.
Program Structure
Number of courses: 6 (36 units)
Compulsory courses: 4 (24 units)
Elective courses: 2 (12 units)
Compulsory Courses
IDEC8001 Applied Economics: Cost/Benet Analysis
IDEC8015 Mathematical Methods in Applied Economics
IDEC8016 Microeconomic Analysis and Policy
IDEC8017 Econometric Techniques
Elective Courses
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POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
PROGRESSION GUIDE
POSSIBLE
PHD
An Australian bachelor degree
or its international equivalent
and professional experience
SIX MONTHS GRADUATE
CERTIFICATE IN:
> Public Administration
ONE YEAR GRADUATE
DIPLOMA IN:
> Public Administration
SIX MONTHS GRADUATE
CERTIFICATE IN:
> Public Policy
ONE YEAR MASTER OF:
> Public Administration
> Public Policy
An Australian bachelor degree
with at least second-class,
division A Honours, or its
international equivalent and
professional experience
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 29
GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN
POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
Master of Public Policy 30
Graduate Certicate in Public Policy 33
Master of Public Administration 34
Graduate Diploma in Public Administration 35
Graduate Certicate in Public Administration 35
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Master of Public Policy
(CRICOS 012473A)
Program Structure
Number of courses: 8 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 3 (18 units)
Elective courses: 5 (30 units)
Compulsory Courses
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
plus suitable electives to an overall total of 48 units for the degree.
Students may also enrol in the Master of Public Policy specialising in:
> Policy Analysis
> Development Policy
> Economic Policy
> Environmental Policy
> Environmental Law
> International Policy
> Social Policy
Master of Public Policy specialising in Policy Analysis
This degree combines study of the core policy disciplines with a wide range of elective courses in various policy areas for those wishing to
broaden and deepen their general skills in policy analysis.
Compulsory Courses – at least 4 courses (24 units)
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
and either of the following courses:
POGO8096 Research Methods (6 units)
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
plus suitable electives to an overall total of 48 units for the degree.
The purpose of the Master of Public Policy (MPP) program is to provide public policy education of leading international renown for
professionals to develop further as leaders in a variety of public sector roles, including public services, third sector organisations
or government affairs positions in the private sector. The MPP’s scope includes providing students with a mixture of theory and
practice to build the tools and knowledge necessary for high quality policy analysis, including design, advocacy, and evaluation as
well as building political and program management capabilities. The MPP curriculum - both its compulsory and elective courses - is
dened by an educational concern for the major policy issues confronted by government, business and society both in Australia and
internationally alongside the latest disciplinary and interdisciplinary debates in the social sciences on the nature of good public policy.
Furthermore, MPP faculty members are nationally and internationally recognised experts in their elds; and many have real-world
experience in the public, private, and non-prot- sectors. Widely acknowledged as dedicated teachers, the MPP faculty combines
specialised knowledge and expertise with innovative teaching methods that enrich and broaden students’ academic experience.
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 31
Master of Public Policy specialising in Development Policy
This degree combines study of the core policy disciplines with a course in development theories and elective courses in
development policy and program management.
Compulsory Courses – at least 5 courses (30 units)
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
POGO8095 Development Policy and Practice
and either of the following courses:
POGO8096 Research Methods (6 units)
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
plus suitable electives to an overall total of 48 units for the degree.
Master of Public Policy specialising in Economic Policy
This degree gives students the opportunity to specialise in economic policy and is designed for non-economists.
Compulsory Courses – 4 courses (24 units)
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Policy Institutions and Policy Processes
POGO8096 Research Methods (6 units)
plus suitable electives to an overall total of 48 units for the degree.
Master of Public Policy specialising in Environmental Policy
This degree allows students to specialise in environmental policy. Students can choose approved electives in other areas, particularly the
Environmental Management and Development program.
Compulsory Courses – 6 courses (36 units)
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Policy Institutions and Policy Processes
EMDV8103 Environmental Assessment
EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
and either of the following courses:
POGO8096 Research Methods (6 units)
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
plus suitable electives to an overall total of 48 units for the degree.
Master of Public Policy specialising in Environmental Law
This degree combines study of the core policy disciplines with courses in environmental law taught by the ANU College of Law,
for those with an interest in the legal aspects of environmental policy.
Compulsory Courses – 4 courses (24 units)
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
and either of the following courses:
POGO8096 Research Methods (6 units)
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
plus suitable electives in the eld of environmental law. Candidates without formal qualications in law or previous tertiary study
of law who wish to take an elective from the ANU College of Law will be required to undertake LAWS8189 Fundamentals of
Environmental Law (6 units), which is offered in the Summer and Winter sessions.
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Master of Public Policy specialising in International Policy
This degree provides specic knowledge and awareness of key international policy issues through study of the core policy
disciplines combined with elective courses in various aspects of international policy.
Compulsory Courses – at least 4 courses (24 units)
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
and either of the following courses:
POGO8096 Research Methods (6 units)
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
plus suitable electives in the eld of international policy (including CRWF8011 The Global Trading System and POGO8015 Services
and Investment Policy) to an overall total of 48 units for the degree.
Master of Public Policy specialising in Social Policy
This degree offers opportunities for advanced investigation of the analytical skills, public policies and organisational practices
appropriate for advising on social policy and managing program outcomes. Ideal for those involved in social policy development or
implementation in government.
Compulsory Courses – at least 5 courses (30 units)
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
POGO8084 Principles of Social Policy
and either of the following courses:
POGO8096 Research Methods (6 units)
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
plus suitable electives in the eld of social policy (including POGO8085 Implementing Social Policy, POGO8099 Community and
Social Policy and POGO8044 Global Social Policy to an overall total of 48 units for the degree.
Elective Courses
These must complement the student’s chosen specialisation. Approved electives from other related teaching areas at Crawford
School or throughout ANU are also available.
ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies
ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender and Development
CRWF8004 Case Studies in Economic Policy
CRWF8006 Climate Change Policy Economics
CRWF8009 Energy Politics and Governance
CRWF8011 The Global Trading System
CRWF8013 Water Economics and Governance
CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change Policy and
Economics
CRWF8016 Food Wars: Food Security and
Agricultural Policy
EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy
IDEC8009 Trade, Development and the
Asia-Pacic Economy
IDEC8014 Banking, Finance and Monetary Policy in the
Asia-Pacic Region
IDEC8021 The Chinese Economy
IDEC8022 Economic Development
IDEC8088 Applied Economics: Cost-Benet Analysis
POGO8003 Conict and Development
POGO8004 Poverty Reduction
POGO8015 Services and Investment Policy
POGO8021 Ethics and Public Policy
POGO8029 Health Policy in a Globalising World
POGO8032 Comparative Public Sector Management
POGO8035 Research Project (6 units)
POGO8037 Writing Public Policy
POGO8044 Global Social Policy
POGO8045 I nternational Policy Making in the Shadow
of the Future
POGO8046 China, India and Global Cooperation
POGO8047 The Political Economy of Governance Reform
in Developing Countries
POGO8055 Case Studies in Public Sector Management
POGO8056 People and Performance in Public
Organisations
POGO8057 Managing Government Finances
POGO8076 Corruption and Anti-corruption
POGO8080 Organisational Finance and Budgeting
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
POGO8084 Principles of Social Policy
POGO8085 Implementing Social Policy
POGO8095 Development Policy and Practice
POGO8096 Research Methods (6 units)
POGO8099 Community and Social Policy
POGO8111 Public Sector Leadership
Or electives from other related teaching areas at Crawford School or throughout ANU that meets the approval of the Program Director.
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 for details or visit crawford.anu.edu.au/degree_programs/content/master/pogo.php
Master of Public Policy cont...
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The Graduate Certicate in Public Policy comprises four courses taken at Master degree level. In effect it is half a Master of Public
Policy, which comprises eight courses. The Graduate Certicate is designed for professionals engaged in government or other
policy-related organisations who wish to develop high-level skills in policy analysis. The Certicate offers a wide menu of Master
degree courses selected from those eligible for the Master of Public Policy. Students who are thinking of proceeding later to the
Master of Public Policy should consider the course requirements for the various specialisations offered under that degree.
Graduate Certificate in Public Policy
(CRICOS 013138G)
Bunthan Eang, a young Cambodian is using his Master
of Public Policy (MPP) to help re-build his country after
devastating genocides.
“The whole program is really eye-opening, especially when
you discover the policy of another country is very similar to
the situation in your country, and you have a chance to see
many areas and many policies that are in need of reform, for
example, or are missing in a particular country at a certain time.
It opens your eyes and you can see there are many things you
can learn from.”
Bunthan says one of the program’s greatest strengths is the
calibre of teaching staff and visiting lecturers.
“ANU is in Canberra, where policy decisions are made so you
can hear from the experts themselves, like policymakers and
politicians. We have a great chance through school programs,
like roundtable discussions and debates, to talk to them. Last
week I got the chance to meet and talk with Dr Surin Pitsuwan,
Secretary-General of ASEAN!
“A lot of people ask me if I am sad to leave Australia,” he says.
“It seems to me that I need Australia, but Cambodia needs me.
I’ve learnt a lot here, from both academic and social settings,
and I want to return to Cambodia and apply those things.”
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ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies
ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender and Development
CRWF8004 Case Studies in Economic Policy
CRWF8006 Climate Change Policy Economics
CRWF8009 Energy Politics and Governance
CRWF8011 The Global Trading System
CRWF8013 Water Economics and Governance
CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change Policy
and Economics
CRWF8016 Food Wars: Food Security and
Agricultural Policy
EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy
IDEC8009 Trade, Development and the
Asia-Pacic Economy
IDEC8014 Banking, Finance and Monetary Policy in the
Asia-Pacic Region
IDEC8021 The Chinese Economy
IDEC8022 Economic Development
IDEC8088 Applied Economics: Cost-Benet Analysis
POGO8003 Conict and Development
POGO8004 Poverty Reduction
POGO8015 Services and Investment Policy
POGO8021 Ethics and Public Policy
POGO8029 Health Policy in a Globalising World
POGO8032 Comparative Public Sector Management
POGO8035 Research Project (6 units)
POGO8037 Writing Public Policy
POGO8044 Global Social Policy
POGO8045 International Policy Making in the Shadow
of the Future
POGO8046 China, India and Global Cooperation
POGO8047 The Political Economy of Governance
Reform in Developing Countries
POGO8055 Case Studies in Public Sector Management
POGO8056 People and Performance in Public
Organisations
POGO8057 Managing Government Finances
POGO8076 Corruption and Anti-corruption
POGO8080 Organisational Finance and Budgeting
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
POGO8084 Principles of Social Policy
POGO8085 Implementing Social Policy
POGO8095 Development Policy and Practice
POGO8096 Research Methods (6 units)
POGO8099 Community and Social Policy
POGO8111 Public Sector Leadership
Or electives from other related teaching areas at Crawford
School or throughout ANU that meets the approval of the
Program Director.
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 for details or visit crawford.anu.edu.au/degree_programs/content/master/pad.php
Master of Public Administration
(CRICOS 043222G)
The Master of Public Administration (MPA) program is aimed at professional managers in the public service and broader public
sector environment seeking to develop further their skills as they approach mid-career. In particular, the MPA hones and develops
management, leadership, organisational performance capabilities in implementing and delivering public policy. This professional
development is achieved through a curriculum - both its compulsory and elective courses – motivated by a scholarly concern for
the major contemporary dilemmas confronted by government, business and society both in Australia and internationally alongside
the latest disciplinary and interdisciplinary debates in the social sciences on the nature of good public administration. Furthermore,
MPA faculty members are nationally and internationally recognised experts in their elds; and many have real-world experience in
the public, private, and non-prot sectors. Widely acknowledged as dedicated teachers, the MPA faculty combines specialised
knowledge and expertise with innovative teaching methods that enrich and broaden students’ academic experience.
Program Structure
Number of courses: 8 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 4 (24 units)
Elective courses: 4 (24 units)
Compulsory Courses
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
POGO8055 Case Studies in Public Sector Management
POGO8081 Economics for Government
and either of the following courses:
POGO8056 People & Performance in Public Organisations
POGO8057 Managing Government Finances
Elective Courses
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The Graduate Diploma in Public Administration is designed for people working in or with government agencies in a developing or
transitional country. It is ideal for students who want to study development issues. Students who complete the Graduate Diploma
in Public Administration with an average of 65 per cent or greater may be admitted to the Master of Public Policy or Public
Administration. The Graduate Diploma in Public Administration has no specialisations or elective options.
Program Structure
Number of courses: 8 (48 units)
Compulsory courses
POGO8012 Comparative Government and Politics
POGO8016 The Economic Way of Thinking 1
POGO8019 The Economic Way of Thinking 2
POGO8024 Social Policy, Society and Change
POGO8062 Public Sector Management
POGO8072 Development Theories and Themes
POGO8090 Making and Evaluating Policy
POGO8117 Program Management
Graduate Diploma in
Public Administration
(CRICOS 043223G)
Program Structure
Number of courses: 4 (24 units)
Compulsory Courses – at least four from the list below
POGO8012 Comparative Government and Politics
POGO8016 The Economic Way of Thinking 1
POGO8019 The Economic Way of Thinking 2
POGO8024 Social Policy, Society and Change
POGO8062 Public Sector Management
POGO8072 Development Theories and Themes
POGO8090 Making and Evaluating Policy
POGO8117 Program Management
Graduate Certificate in Public
Administration
(CRICOS 043224F)
The Graduate Certicate in Public Administration is designed for individuals who want to widen their skills in management and
increase their understanding of development issues.
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ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
PROGRESSION GUIDE
POSSIBLE
PHD
An Australian bachelor
degree or its international
equivalent and
professional experience
ONE YEAR GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN:
> Environmental Management
and Development
An Australian
bachelor degree or its
international equivalent
SIX MONTHS GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN:
> Environmental Management
and Development
ONE YEAR MASTER OF:
> Environmental Management and Development
> Climate Change
An Australian bachelor
degree with at least
second-class, division
A Honours, or its
international equivalent
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GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN
ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Master of Environmental Management and Development 38
Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management and Development 41
Graduate Certicate in Environmental Management and Development 41
Master of Climate Change 42
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Coursework Only Option
Number of courses: 8 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 5 (30 units)
Elective courses: 3 (18 units)
Compulsory Courses
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
EMDV8002 Methods for Environmental Decision-making
EMDV8102 Research Methods for Environmental Management (6 units)
EMDV8103 Environmental Assessment
EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
Coursework and Research Option
Number of courses: 7 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 7 (48 units)
Electives: 0
Compulsory Courses
CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change
EMDV8002 Methods for Environmental Decision-making
EMDV8008 Research Proposal
EMDV8066 Research Project (12 units)
EMDV8102 Research Methods for Environmental Management
EMDV8103 Environmental Assessment
EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
Elective Courses
ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of
Development
ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies
ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender and Development
ANTH8047 Introduction to Indigenous Environments
BUSN7017 Sustainability and Corporate Social
Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting
CRWF8003 International Water Politics
CRWF8004 Case Studies in Economic Policy
CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy
Economics
CRWF8009 Energy Politics and Governance
CRWF8011 The Global Trading System
CRWF8016 Food Wars: Food Security and Agricultural
Policy
IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy
IDEC8017 Econometric Techniques
Master of Environmental
Management and Development
(CRICOS 029997M)
The Master of Environmental Management and Development is an interdisciplinary degree comprising coursework or coursework
and research, that allows students to develop a program of advanced learning. The program comprises compulsory courses in
core topic areas covering environmental governance, environmental economics, environmental assessment and research methods.
Elective courses can be selected from a wide range of topics to meet individual students’ needs and interests, including economics
and business, water management, biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, governance and policy, climate change,
society and the environment, and law and policy. The courses focus on the theoretical and practical decision aspects of achieving the
goals of economic viability, social acceptability and environmental sustainability within differing social and political contexts.
Program Structure
Students must select either the ‘coursework only’ option or the ‘coursework and research’ option (EMDV8066 Research Project),
subject to the approval of the Program Director. The selection of electives is to be made in consultation with the Program Director.
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IDEC8018 Agricultural Economics and Resource Policy
IDEC8053 Environmental Economics
IDEC8088 Applied Economics: Cost-Benet Analysis
LAWS6503 Law and the Environment
LAWS8123 Water Resources Law
LAWS8180 International Climate Law
LAWS8189 Fundamentals of Environmental Law
POGO8076 Corruption and Anti-corruption
POGO8081 Economics for Government
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
POGO8095 Development Policy and Practice
Or electives from other related teaching areas at Crawford School or throughout ANU that meets the approval of the Program Director.
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 for details or visit crawford.anu.edu.au/degree_programs/content/master/emdv.php
Specialisations
Students’ selections of electives may comprise a balance of courses from across the elds of economics, social sciences, biophysical
sciences, governance and analytical tools. Alternatively, students may choose their electives to specialise in one of the following areas,
the courses given are suggestions only.
Economics and Business
BUSN7017 Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting
IDEC8018 Agricultural Economics and Resource Policy
IDEC8053 Environmental Economics
IDEC8088 Applied Economics: Cost/Benet Analysis
Water Management
CRWF8003 International Water Politics
ENVS6022 Hydrology and Landforms for Natural Resource Management
ENVS6304 Land and Catchment Management
ENVS6555 Water Resource Management
LAWS8123 Water Resources Law
Catherine Diomampo, a former engineer and graduate of
the Master of Environmental Management and Development
(MEMD) is going to help her home country, the Philippines,
clean up its act.
“I want to be helpful to other people and I know it’s a bit hard, but to do
something to improve the quality of the environmental conditions in my
country. We have a lot of environmental problems and the resources
are being depleted. We have air quality problems, especially in Manilla,
where I live, and we have solid waste management issues, and
problems with water quality as well. There are a lot of things to be done.
“We have good teachers. They’re really professionals in the eld so even
if we ask a lot of tough questions, they’re able to answer them. And if
they don’t know, they challenge us to nd out the answers ourselves.”
Catherine says coming from an engineering background, she also
beneted from taking the research component of the program, which
enabled her to improve her academic writing and social science
research skills.
Catherine is now due to return to the Philippines, where she will look for
work with the government, an international NGO or in education. She says
she’ll miss Canberra when she leaves.
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Governance and Policy
IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy
POGO8032 Comparative Public Sector Management
POGO8076 Corruption and Anti-corruption
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
Climate Change
CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy Economics
CRWF8009 Energy Politics and Governance
CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change Policy and Economics
ENVS8003 Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation
Society and Environment
ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies
ANTH8047 Introduction to Indigenous Environments
CRWF8016 Food Wars: Food Security and Agricultural Policy
EMDV8001 Environmental Sustainability, Health and Development
EMDV8101 State, Society and Natural Resources
POGO8095 Development Policy and Practice
Law and Policy
LAWS6503 Law and the Environment
LAWS8123 Water Resources Law
LAWS8180 International Climate Law
LAWS8189 Fundamentals of Environmental Law
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
POGO8083 Policy Advocacy
Master of Environmental
Management and Development cont...
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Program Structure
Number of courses: 8 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 4 (24 units)
Elective courses: 4 (24 units)
Compulsory Courses
EMDV8026 Introduction to Environmental Science
EMDV8078 Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
EMDV8101 State, Society and Natural Resources
and either of the following courses:
EMDV8007 Environmental Policy and Communications
EMDV8108 Applied Environmental and Resource Management
Elective Courses
BUSN7017 Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting
EMDV8001 Environmental Sustainability, Health and Development
EMDV8009 Asia-Pacic Environmental Conicts: Causes and Solutions
ENVS6013 Society and Environmental Change
ENVS6015 GIS and Spatial Analysis
ENVS6304 Land and Catchment Management
ENVS6555 Water Resource Management
POGO8072 Development Theories and Themes
POGO8117 Program Management
Or electives from other related teaching areas at Crawford School or throughout ANU that meets the approval of the Program Director.
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59-77 for details or visit crawford.anu.edu.au/degree_programs/content/diploma_cert/emdv.php
Graduate Diploma in Environmental
Management and Development
(CRICOS 012059D)
The Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management and Development improves students’ theoretical and applied knowledge
of environmental management issues. It is designed as a pathway into the Master program. Grounded in the philosophy of
sustainable development, the program develops an integrated understanding of economics, ecology and social sciences.
The Graduate Certicate in Environmental Management and Development is designed to meet the needs of those professionally
engaged in government and other policy-related organisations or activities and wish to extend their understanding of key
approaches to environmental management and development, but who do not wish to take the full 48 unit Graduate Diploma
or Master of Environmental Management and Development. The Certicate provides students with a range of opportunities
for advanced investigation of the analytical skills, public policies and practical tools required for advising on key environmental
management and development issues such as biodiversity conservation and climate change.
Program Structure
The program consists of 24 units, of which at least 12 units should be from EMDV coded courses. Courses are selected in
consultation with the Program Director.
Graduate Certificate in Environmental
Management and Development
(CRICOS 013520B)
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Master of Climate Change
(CRICOS 064772D)
The Master of Climate Change is offered jointly by Crawford School and the Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU College of
Medicine, Biology and Environment. It is an interdisciplinary degree that allows students to develop a program of advanced learning suited
to their individual interests and skills in the area of climate change, through either coursework or coursework and research. The program
comprises a minimum of three compulsory courses in core areas such as climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, climate
change economics and policy, and methodological approaches, as well as elective courses in a wide range of topics to meet individual
students’ needs and interests.
Master of Climate Change graduates can expect to:
> gain a high level of knowledge in particular aspects of climate change as well as a broad knowledge of the main issues in, and
approaches to, climate change vulnerability, adaptation and migration
> develop their independent learning, analytical research, teamwork, and oral and written communication skills
> develop networks relevant to their academic and professional interests
> be better placed to respond to the challenges of climate change through their chosen careers.
Students enrolled in the Master of Climate Change may take courses in Crawford School, the Fenner School or both, depending on
their particular elds of interest within the broad area of climate change. Course selection is to be determined in consultation with a
Program Convenor.
Program Structure: Coursework Only Option
Number of courses: 8 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 3 (18 units)
Elective courses: 5 (30 units)
Compulsory Courses
One of the following courses:
CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy and Economics OR
CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change Policy and Economics
plus
ENVS8003 Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation
EMDV8102 Research Methods for Environmental Management
plus 30 units of approved elective courses.
Program Structure: Coursework and Research Option
Number of courses: 7 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 5 (36 units)
Elective courses: 2 (12 units)
Compulsory Courses
One of the following courses:
CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy and Economics OR
CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change Policy and Economics
plus
EMDV8008 Research Proposal
EMDV8012 Research Method for Environmental Management
EMDV8066 Research Project (12 units)
ENVS8003 Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation
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Elective Courses
BUSN7017 Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting
CRWF8003 International Water Politics
CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy and Economics
CRWF8009 Energy Politics and Governance
CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change Policy and Economics
EMDV8002 Methods for Environmental Decision-making
EMDV8103 Environmental Assessment
EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
ENGN6516 World Energy Resources and Renewable Technologies
ENGN6524 Solar Electricity
ENVS6033 International Environmental Policy
ENVS6303 Climatology
ENVS6307 Climate Change Science and Policy
ENVS8006 Climate Change Science: Carbon Accounting
LAWS6503 Law and the Environment
LAWS8180 International Climate Law
POGO8082 Political Institutions and Policy Processes
Or electives from other related teaching areas at Crawford School or throughout ANU that meets the approval of the Program Convenor.
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 for details or visit
crawford.anu.edu.au/degree_programs/content/master/climate_change.php
Kwame Agyei, a student in the Master of Climate Change
(MCC) is helping his home country Ghana see the wood
for the trees and tackle devastating deforestation.
Kwame Agyei worked with the Forestry Commission of Ghana for
ve years before deciding to develop his knowledge of environmental
policy with a master’s degree.
“I see my class as a mini United Nations. There are people from
Nepal, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Gambia, Uganda and
Australia, of course. At times we found there are similar challenges,
and sometimes divergences, with other countries and what they’re
experiencing.
“The program gives you the exibility to explore what you want to
learn,” he says, adding that his general skills of analysis have been
greatly improved by the degree.
“I’ve learnt from the very best,” he says. “Now I can email somebody
who is the best in their eld, and ask for feedback. If I’m faced with
any challenges, there are people who are more experienced and
knowledgeable than I am who I can draw on for support.
“The lecturers are very down to earth, approachable and they quickly
reply to emails and inquiries. They are comfortable to share their
knowledge with you. It was a real eye-opener.”
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Master of Diplomacy/Master of International and Development Economics 45
Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy 45
Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy Specialising in
Development Policy 45
Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy Specialising in
International Policy 45
Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Administration 45
Master of Diplomacy/Master of Environmental Management
and Development 45
COMBINED DEGREES
CRAWFORD SCHOOL GRADUATE STUDIES GUIDE 45
The Master of Diplomacy combined degree program is offered by the Asia-Pacic College of Diplomacy and is composed of
two Master degrees. The rst degree can be in a range of specied areas in which knowledge of contemporary diplomacy
would be an advantage. (This rst degree is referred to as your ‘eld of study’ Master Degree.) The second degree is the Master
of Diplomacy. It is offered only as part of a combined degree program; it is not available as a single degree. Students will be
awarded both degrees at a single ceremony.
The combined degree program is ideal for those whose professional role involves a solid understanding of transnational
diplomacy and its contemporary challenges, whether in a civil service department, multilateral body, international corporation or
non-government organisation.
There are six options for Crawford School students who wish to obtain a combined degree:
IMPORTANT: This is the ONLY combined degree that students may enrol in which is fully approved by AusAID for students with
an ADS or ALA scholarship.
Note: All courses for the Master of Diplomacy commence in the summer session (January–February) and conclude at the end of
the rst semester (end of June). No second semester enrolment is possible, therefore careful consideration needs to be given to
when you can commence your rst degree to ensure no break in enrolment occurs.
Program Structure
The Master of Diplomacy degree compromises the following four compulsory courses:
DIPL8001 Transnational Diplomacy (12 units)
DIPL8002 Contemporary Challenges in Diplomacy: Politics, Economics, Law & Strategy (12 units)
DIPL8003 Case Studies in Diplomacy (6 units)
DIPL8004 Negotiation and Conict Resolution (6 units)
Students will also receive 12 units of advanced standing (credit) towards the 48 unit Master of Diplomacy after having completed
their rst master’s degree.
Refer to the course descriptions on pages 59–77 for details or visit apcd.anu.edu.au/education-program/master-diplomacy
MASTER OF DIPLOMACY
COMBINED DEGREES
CRICOS Code Degree Title
Master Degree
048417A Master of Diplomacy/Master of International and Development Economics
051778E Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy
048414D Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy Specialising in Development Policy
048413E Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Policy Specialising in International Policy
052407B Master of Diplomacy/Master of Public Administration
051830F Master of Diplomacy/Master of Environmental Management and Development
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The Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD) is jointly offered by the ANU College of Asia and
the Pacic (Crawford School’s Resource Management in Asia–Pacic Program) and the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
(School of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research). The program is taught by
anthropologists and other social scientists who are engaged in innovative development research and practice. It is infused with the
expertise that has given ANU a world-class reputation in anthropological studies.
The program produces graduates who can:
> Understand trends in development theory and practice as they apply to local development processes
> Apply critical social inquiry and participatory processes in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating
development activities
> Undertake social assessments and integrate participatory practices in development work
> Engage in the policy processes of government, the private sector, multilateral agencies and civil society to ensure the inclusion
of local and community perspectives.
The program attracts students from international and government agencies, civil society and the private sector. Some are already
working in development, while others are looking to move into development work. Students come from varied backgrounds in
terms of nationality, training and work experience. This diversity is fostered through options for exible online delivery, independent
research and internship.
Students can choose either to take the general MAAPD program or to specialise in one of four areas: Gender and Development,
Conict and Development, Indigenous Policy, or Society and Environment.
Master of Applied Anthropology and
Participatory Development
(CRICOS 036808G)
ANTH8016 MAAPD Internship
ANTH8021 Participatory Modelling for Development
ANTH8029 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Policy
ANTH8030 Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Practice
ANTH8032 Law, Order and Conict in the Pacic
ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender and Development
ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development
ANTH8046 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Development
ANTH8047 Resource Projects and Indigenous Peoples
ANTH8049 Issues in the Design and Evaluation of Development Projects and Programs
POGO8008 Participation and Program Management
POGO8021 Ethics and Public Policy
Other electives may be possible subject to agreement with the Program Convenor.
AFFILIATED GRADUATE PROGRAM
Program Structure
Number of courses: 8 (48 units)
Compulsory courses: 6 (36 units)
Elective courses: 2 (12 units)
Compulsory Courses
ANTH8006 Social Mapping and Community Politics
ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development
ANTH8008 Social Impact Studies in Project Cycle
ANTH8009 Development in Practice
Elective Courses
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Conict and Development Specialisation
Compulsory Courses
ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development
ANTH8008 Social Impact Studies in Project Cycle
ANTH8019 Practical Studies in Social Analysis
ANTH8043 Conict and Development in the Pacic
Elective Courses
ANTH8009 Development in Practice
ANTH8016 MAAPD Internship
ANTH8021 Participatory Modelling for Development
ANTH8029 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Policy
ANTH8030 Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Practice
ANTH8037 Supervised Special Project
ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender and Development
ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development
ANTH8046 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Development
ANTH8047 Resource Projects and Indigenous Peoples
ANTH8049 Issues in the Design and Evaluation of Development Projects and Programs
INTR8022 Asia–Pacic Security
INTR8040 Ethnicity and Conict in Asia and the Pacic
INTR8056 International Humanitarian Assistance
Gender and Development Specialisation
Compulsory Courses
ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development
ANTH8008 Social Impact Studies in Project Cycle
ANTH8019 Practical Studies in Social Analysis
ANTH8039 Exploring Gender and Development
Elective Courses
ANTH6025 Gender and Cross-cultural Perspective
ANTH8009 Development in Practice
ANTH8016 MAAPD Internship
ANTH8021 Participatory Modelling for Development
ANTH8029 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Policy
ANTH8030 Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Practice
ANTH8032 Law, Order and Conict in the Pacic
ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development
ANTH8046 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Development
ANTH8047 Resource Projects and Indigenous Peoples
ANTH8049 Issues in the Design and Evaluation of Development Projects and Programs
DEMO8048 Gender and Population
POLS2075 Globalism and the Politics of Identity
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Indigenous Policy Specialisation
Compulsory Courses
ANTH8019 Practical Studies in Social Analysis
ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies
ANTH8040 Australian Indigenous Policy (12 units)
ANTH8045 Australian Indigenous Development (12 units)
Elective Courses
ANTH6005 Indigenous Australian Societies and Culture
ANTH8009 Development in Practice
ANTH8016 MAAPD Internship
ANTH8030 Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Practice
ANTH8032 Law, Order and Conict in the Pacic
ANTH8037 Supervised Special Project
ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender and Development
ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development
ANTH8047 Resource Projects and Indigenous Peoples
ANTH8049 Issues in the Design and Evaluation of Development Projects and Programs
HIST6022 Indigenous Australian History
Society and Environment Specialisation
Compulsory Courses
ANTH8008 Social Impact Studies in Project Cycle
ANTH8019 Practical Studies in Social Analysis
ANTH8044 Environment Management and Indigenous Peoples
EMDV8101 State, Society and Natural Resources
Elective Courses
ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development
ANTH8009 Development in Practice
ANTH8016 MAAPD Internship
ANTH8021 Participatory Modelling for Development
ANTH8029 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Policy
ANTH8030 Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Practice
ANTH8037 Supervised Special Project
ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender and Development
ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development
ANTH8046 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Development
ANTH8049 Issues in the Design and Evaluation of Development Projects and Programs
Master of Applied Anthropology
and Participatory Development
cont...
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The MAAPD (Research) program provides training for professional research activities in the development sector and allows entry to a
PhD program. It involves an additional 24 units of study on completion of the 48-unit MAAPD coursework program. Graduates of the
MAAPD (Research) program will have the knowledge and skills to design research activities, including identifying and reviewing the
relevant literature, developing research questions and identifying appropriate research methods. They will be asked to communicate
their research ndings in the form of a thesis.
The research project will be supervised by MAAPD staff based in the College of Arts and Social Sciences or the College of Asia
and the Pacic. The choice of supervisor will depend on the student’s research interests. The MAAPD (Research) program can
be completed in one year of part-time study or one semester of full-time study. Note that eld research normally requires ethics
clearance, which may involve costs to the student on top of the course fees.
Master of Applied Anthropology and
Participatory Development (Research)
(CRICOS 070684E)
Laura Baines, a Master of Applied Anthropology and
Participatory Development (MAAPD) graduate is set to help
women in need around the world.
For Laura Baines, from Australia, choosing a master’s program was a
serious business.
“I developed criteria for what I wanted from a course: a focus on gender;
a focus on the Pacic because I have an ongoing passion for all things
Pacic-related; it had to have an internship option; and it had to be a
world-recognised course and the MAAPD course at ANU just t.”
Having now nished the program, Laura says the MAAPD lived up to the
high demands she set from the outset. Her teachers were also one of the
program’s biggest selling points.
“They’re all renowned in their eld, but they’re really nice people
as well, and very approachable. They’re always encouraging of
students and willing to encourage you within your interests. All of
them have development experience either with NGOs or international
organisations like the World Bank or the United Nations.
“This degree is well recognised, and employers actively recruit from this
degree. In class, you get such a range of people from all over the world,
you know it’s a world-class degree.”
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At ANU, a diverse range of elds bring together doctoral
students and staff with common research interests who may
be located in different academic areas. Within Crawford School
students typically choose to enrol in one of the following
research elds.
Economics / Economic Policy
economics.anu.edu.au/econ_phd.php
crawford.anu.edu.au/degree_programs/content/economic_
policy.php
Students studying a PhD program in the Economics or
Economic Policy elds undertake a program of full-time study
that comprises two parts: Coursework (Part A) and Research
(Part B). All PhD candidates must complete both parts of the
doctoral program. Part A normally consists of two consecutive
semesters of coursework, which differs between the two
elds of Economics and Economic Policy. Part B consists
of research, participation in seminars and workshops, and
submission of a thesis. Students wishing to undertake a PhD in
Economics whose rst language is not English are required to
have an overall IELTS score of 6.5 with a score of no less than
6.0 in each individual band.
Environmental and Resource Management
info.anu.edu.au/studyat/Graduate_School/Study_Fields/
environment
Students studying a PhD program in the Environmental and
Resource Management eld may be required to undertake some
coursework if their supervisor considers it necessary. Students
wishing to undertake a PhD in Environmental and Resource
Management whose rst language is not English are required to
have an overall IELTS score of 7.0 with a score of 7.0 in writing
and a score of no less than 6.5 in each individual band.
Public Policy / Political Science and International Relations
info.anu.edu.au/studyat/Graduate_School/Study_Fields/pubpol
info.anu.edu.au/studyat/Graduate_School/Study_Fields/polsci
Students studying a PhD program in the Public Policy or Political
Science and International Relations elds are required to complete
the Postgraduate Training in Politics and Policy Program, which
is jointly organised by Crawford School and the School of Politics
and International Relations in the College of Arts and Social
Sciences. It comprises Research Design (12 units, Semester 1,
offered by Crawford) and Research Methods (6 units,
Semester 2, offered by the School of Politics and International
Relations). Students may also be asked to undertake additional
courses if their supervisor considers it necessary.
Students must achieve an average grade of Distinction in
order to commence dissertation research. The coursework
requirements may be fullled through a set of equivalent ANU-
wide courses.
Students wishing to undertake a PhD in either of these elds
whose rst language is not English are required to have an
overall IELTS score of 7.0 with a score of 7.0 in writing and a
score of no less than 6.5 in each individual band.
Selection to PhD Programs
Recommendations for course admission and PhD scholarships
will be based both on merit (as manifested by academic
performance, relevant experience and the quality of the proposed
research) and on the ability of staff members within the School to
accommodate students’ research interests and projects.
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How do I apply?
Step 1 – Expression of interest/initial inquiry
You should initially contact the Research Student Ofcer by
completing an expression of interest form at
www.crawford.anu.edu.au/future_students/phd/, click on
‘How to apply’ This will assist academic staff and potential
supervisors to assess your suitability for doctoral studies at
Crawford School. You will be required to provide the following
information:
> a brief (2–3-page) research proposal (essential)
> a brief CV setting out relevant work experience as well as
academic qualications (essential)
> a copy of the academic transcript of your Master degree
(or equivalent) accompanied by an English translation and
an explanation of the grading system if from an overseas
university (essential)
> IELTS or TOEFL test results (if applicable)
> the names of academic staff who could potentially supervise
your research (essential). For a list of Crawford academics
with the capacity to take on new doctoral students and their
areas of supervisory expertise, visit www.crawford.anu.edu.
au/future_students/phd/supervisors.php
A committee of academics will then consider all expressions of
interest to determine suitability for doctoral studies at Crawford
School. This committee meets regularly. All expressions of
interest will be notied of the outcome by the PhD Administrator
after each meeting.
Step 2 – Finding a supervisor/submitting a formal application
All information provided by each potential student who is
determined suitable for doctoral studies at Crawford School
is then passed to the academic supervisor(s) identied by the
student. If an academic agrees to supervise your PhD, you will
be informed of this and invited to submit a formal application.
More information
To enquire about doctoral studies elds contact Crawford
School’s PhD Convenors:
Economics
Dr Creina Day
Environmental and Resource Management
Dr Keith Barney
Public Policy/Political Science/International Relations
Associate Professor Fiona Yap
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Professor Kym Anderson
The economics and political economy of international trade,
economic development, agricultural economics, and the
interface between them. He continues to serve on the editorial
boards of numerous economics journals, and as a consultant to
the major international economic agencies.
Dr Shiro Armstrong
China–Japan economic and political relations, East Asian
economic integration, international trade and foreign direct
investment, and East Asian economies.
Professor Prema-chandra Athukorala
Development macroeconomics, including capital ows
and nancial crises, structural adjustment and stabilisation
reforms, and determinants of economic growth; and trade
and development, including trade policy reforms, multinational
enterprises and the globalisation of production, patterns and
determinants of trade ows, and international labour migration.
Associate Professor Paul Atkins
Leadership, organisational behaviour, perspective taking,
mindfulness and wisdom in organisations, work engagement
and stress reduction, emotional intelligence, and cognition and
complex problem solving.
Dr Keith Barney
Resource geography, agrarian change, forest and land policy,
political ecology and political economy of forestry and land
issues in Southeast Asia.
Professor Jeff Bennett
Environmental economics, natural resource economics,
agricultural economics and applied micro-economics.
His current research interests focus on development and
application of techniques to estimate the value of non-marketed
environmental benets and costs, and the analysis of alternative
institutional structures that give private owners/managers of
natural resources incentives to provide environmental benets.
Dr Sharon Bessell
Child labour, human rights and policy (especially the human
rights of children), gender issues (especially gender and social
policy, and gender and governance), social policy for vulnerable
children, and politics and social policy in Asia and the Pacic,
especially Indonesia, the Philippines, Fiji and Australia.
Professor Trevor Breusch
Econometric methods and computational tools in econometrics,
applied social and demographic research, labour market
participation and earnings, and data archives and replication
studies. Recently he has published extensively on the topics of
underground economic activity estimations, and does marriage
improve the wages of men and women in Australia.
Dr Paul Burke
Economic growth and development, political economy, energy
economics, environmental and natural resource economics, and
Asia-Pacic economies.
Dr John Burton
Social mapping and land ownership in Melanesia, social
impacts of mining, governance and traditional politics in
Papua New Guinea, Native Title research in Torres Strait and
among rainforest Aboriginal groups in North Queensland, and
genealogy in Australia and Melanesia.
Dr Sommarat Chantarat
Poverty traps, vulnerability and rural welfare dynamics, risk
management mechanisms in poor communities, rural nancial
market, micro-insurance, microcredit, eld experiments
in development economics and policy impact evaluation,
applications of nancial derivatives to development policies.
Professor Bruce Chapman
Labour economics, the economics of education (higher education
student nancing), economics policy, applied econometrics, the
economics of crime, and the economics of sport.
Dr Chunlai Chen
Foreign direct investment, international trade and the WTO,
agricultural economics, and the Chinese economy. His current
projects include the impact of WTO and regional integration on
China’s agriculture, and foreign direct investment and its impact
on China’s economy.
Dr Hoang Long Chu
Numerical methods in applied economics, applied economic
dynamics, sheries economics and bio-securities.
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Dr Daniel Connell
Rivers in federal political systems, environmental politics,
policy and communications. Research into governance issues
in multi-level political systems focusing on countries such as
Australia, USA, South Africa, Spain, India, China and Brazil,
international trans-boundary issues in the Mekong River Basin
and water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin and northern
Australia with a focus on governance, institutional design and
community participation.
Professor Robert Costanza
Transdisciplinary integration of the study of humans and the
rest of nature to address research, policy and management
issues at multiple time and space scales, from small water-
sheds to the global system; systems ecology; ecological
economics; landscape ecology; ecological modelling; ecological
design; energy analysis; environmental policy; social traps;
incentive structures and institutions.
Robin Davies
Aid policy and management; multilateral cooperation for
development; development and climate change nancing
models; public-private partnerships for development; G20
development agenda; payment by results in health, agriculture
and climate change mitigation; international public goods.
Dr Creina Day
Current research interests span economic demography, fertility,
gender wages, R&D-based growth, and macroeconomic policy.
Currently researching aid ows and regional integration issues
in the Pacic islands.
Dr Matthew Dornan
Economic development, political economy, energy economics,
aid, Pacic Island economies, rural electrication, renewable
energy technologies, provision of public goods.
Dr Björn Dressel
Comparative politics and constitutionalism, governance and
public sector reform, public nance in emerging markets,
research methodology, regional expertise in Southeast Asia
and sub-Saharan Africa. Current research includes quality of
democracy in Asia, judicialisation of politics in Asia, and the
impact of new constitutions on governance in Asia and Africa.
Associate Professor Pierre van der Eng
International business, particularly in East and Southeast Asia,
business history, particularly of European rms in Australia,
Australia-Europe business relations, economic growth and
productivity change, particularly in Asia.
Associate Professor Colin Filer
The social context, organisation and impact of policies,
programs and projects in the mining, petroleum, forestry and
conservation sectors, with particular reference to Papua New
Guinea and other parts of Melanesia.
Associate Professor Ippei Fujiwara
International nance, monetary economics, and
macroeconomics.
Professor R. Quentin Grafton
Water pricing, water markets and water economics, social
networks and network theory, sheries management (especially
marine reserves), and property rights (especially quantitative
instruments in resource and environmental management).
Dr Renata Hasanova
Economic modelling, economic growth, structural reforms and
trade with a particular application to the transitional economies,
quantitative analysis, economic and applied econometric
modelling. Current research involves health, income and
socioeconomic status, costs of disease prevention and
macroeconomics impact of infectious diseases.
Dr Carolyn Hendriks
Democratic practice and theory (for example, inclusion and
political representation), citizen engagement and public
deliberation, governance for environmental sustainability,
the politics and governance of science and technology (for
example, energy reform), network governance, and public
policy and comparative politics.
Professor Hal Hill
The economies of ASEAN, especially Indonesia, Malaysia,
the Philippines and the transition economies, industrialisation
and foreign investment in East Asia, regional (subnational)
development dynamics, and Australia’s economic relations with
the Asia-Pacic region.
Dr Ben Hillman
Political change in Asia (especially China and Indonesia),
democratisation, ethnic politics and conict, regional autonomy
and comparative local governance. Current research includes the
urbanisation of rural China, and China’s ethnic politics and conicts.
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Professor Keith A. Houghton
Auditor independence, corporate and organisational
governance, public sector auditing, and accountability.
Professor Stephen Howes
Aid policy, public nance in developing countries, international
climate change policy, India, Papua New Guinea and the
Pacic. He continues to work as an adviser and consultant
for AusAID and the World Bank on issues relating to aid
effectiveness and climate change policy.
Adjunct Professor Yiping Huang
Macroeconomic policy, international nance, rural development,
and Chinese and Asian economies.
Dr Dinuk Jayasuriya
Applied economics, experimental economics, evaluations,
post-conict studies, Pacic development, private sector,
economic growth. Current research includes: determinants of
public nancial management scores; implications for the Pacic;
violent experiences and trust in post-conict Sri Lanka, and the
relationship between post traumatic growth and mental health
across respondents severely affected by war.
Professor Raghbendra Jha
Macroeconomic problems of developing countries, optimal
tax and price policy, scal federalism, and Indian economic
problems, in particular poverty, under-nutrition, functioning
of agricultural markets and nancial sector reforms. Current
research includes: design of social safety nets in India and
an IDRC (Canada) and NCAER (India) funded project, and
monetary policy and scal federalism issues for India.
Associate Professor Frank Jotzo
Economics and policy of climate change, including mechanisms
and policy design for greenhouse gas control, policy frameworks
for adaptation to climate change, and international climate
policy, energy policy and land-use change policy, economic
development in the Asia-Pacic region, especially Indonesia and
Australia, and economic reform and political economy.
Professor Kaliappa Kalirajan
Modelling and analysis of sources of growth, frontier production
function methodology, regional economic groupings and
international trade, and macro-econometric modelling and
policy analysis.
Associate Professor Adrian Kay
Comparative analysis of Australia’s health care system,
comparative health care reform in the global health economy,
comparative biofuels policy and theories of the policy process.
Current research includes health care reform in Australia: The
making and unmaking of Australian public policy: understanding
the path from Medibank to Medicare.
Dr Andrew Kennedy
International relations of China and India, energy security and
climate change, US–China relations and leadership and foreign
policy. Current research includes: techno-nationalism and
techno-globalism in the rise of China and India; and energy
security in China and India
Professor Tom Kompas
Bio-economic modelling, economic dynamics and optimal
control theory, natural resources and environmental economics,
and applied econometrics. Current research includes: ocean
sheries management and major biosecurity issues in Australia
and internationally; biosecurity and the economics of quarantine
and surveillance; public infrastructure, social capital and growth;
and market reform and rice production in Vietnam.
Dr Ida Kubiszewski
Ecological economics; whole systems design for a sustainable
and desirable future; the Earth, its natural environments, and
their interaction with society.
Associate Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Women, gender and development; environmental sustainability;
women’s empowerment in relation to water and mining;
communities’ roles and livelihoods in natural resources, such as
in large-scale and artisanal mining, and the water and sanitation
sectors. Current research includes: artisanal mining and
community-based natural resource management.
Dr Amy Liu
Wage structure in Vietnam and China, wage gap between
immigrants and native-born Australians, assessing development
(designing better indices of poverty and gender equity), and the
wage gap and consumption distribution in Pakistan.
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Dr Sango Mahanty
Social dimensions of collaborative resource management,
political ecology of payments for ecosystem services
and reductions in emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation (REDD), collective action and pollution
management in Vietnam, and social learning and capacity
building. Current research includes study on how forest users
in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos respond to the complex local,
national and regional dimensions of the emerging market for
forest carbon.
Dr John McCarthy
Agricultural policy and food security, social capital, participation
and environmental management, forest management,
biodiversity conservation and climate change, natural resource
conict, and politics, policy and natural resource governance in
a developing context. Current research includes oil palm and
agrarian transition on the Indonesian and Malaysian frontiers; and
social capital, food security, and local governance in Indonesia.
Professor Renee McKibbin (previously Fry)
Econometrics - mainly focusing on developing statistical
frameworks or tests to model the transmission of nancial
market crises, and to improve macroeconomic modelling using
structural vector auto-regression models. Fiscal policy shocks
on the macroeconomy and particularly their interaction with
monetary policy responses and other key variables. Current
research includes methods to parsimoniously model cross
border nancial market and macroeconomic linkages.
Professor Warwick McKibbin
Economic development and growth, international economics
and international nance, environment and resource
economics, macroeconomics (Incl. Monetary and Fiscal Theory)
nancial economics. He has been a consultant for many
international agencies and a number of governments on issues
of macroeconomic policy, international trade and nance and
greenhouse policy issues, global demographic change and the
economic cost of pandemics.
Dr Sarah Milne
Political ecology dimensions of natural resource management
and biodiversity conservation, community-based conservation
and payments for ecosystems services (PES) schemes,
predominantly in developing countries. Current research
includes examining new efforts to mitigate climate change
through reductions in emissions that result from tropical
deforestation and forest degradation in Southeast Asia, with a
focus on Cambodia and Indonesia.
Dr Matthew Morris
Aid and development policy, focusing on the role of new
technologies, results-based aid and evaluation in improving the
impact of aid on poverty reduction, and broader development
policies, including how to manage mineral booms in fragile
states and the role of regional labour mobility in development.
Dr Ann Nevile
Social policy issues and the policy process, poverty and social
exclusion, active labour market programs, third sector service
delivery agencies, and the impact of changing regulatory
structures on the social welfare sector. Current research
includes advantages of a model of service provision that
relies primarily on trust, rather than competition and control to
achieve desired outcomes; and development of a framework
that can be used to analyse community strengthening and
social inclusion policies from a child-centred perspective.
Dr Kazuki Onji
Public nance, banking, applied econometrics, and the Japanese
and other East Asian economies. Current research includes
corporate income tax consolidation: evidence from Japan.
Dr Jamie Pittock
Climate change adaptation, conservation of freshwater
ecosystems, hydropower, integration of biodiversity, climate
change, energy and water policies, multilateral environment
agreements, non-government organisations and natural
resource management, river basin and landscape management,
and water management. Current research includes developing
research programs that link Australian and southern African
expertise to improve management of river basins, green water
and agriculture; assessing research priorities for blue water use
in food production in southern and eastern Africa
Professor Benjamin Reilly
Democracy and democratisation, elections and electoral
systems, Australian foreign policy and regional security in the
South Pacic, ethnic conict and conict management, and
governance and development in the Asia-Pacic. Current
research includes post-conict democracy, political parties in
divided societies, China in the Pacic, electoral system design
and conict management, political reform and ethnic conict in
Southeast Asia and the South Pacic.
Associate Professor Budy P. Resosudarmo
Resource and environmental economics, development
economics, public policy, resource and environmental
modelling, and inter-regional modelling. Current research
includes investigating the political economy of natural
resource utilisation, determining the economy-wide impact
of environmental policies, assessing the relationship between
environmental quality and human capital, and analysing the
impact of decentralisation on regional economies.
Dr Amanda Smullen
Transnationalisation and institutions, comparative public
management, policy ideas and argumentation (rhetoric),
transparency and the organisation of mental healthcare. Current
research includes Comparative research of the nancing and
integration of mental healthcare within the health eld (The
Netherlands, England, Australia & Canada, WHO, OECD).
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Associate Professor Ligang Song
International economics, international economic development and
policy, and China. Current research includes an ARC Project on
China’s industrialisation and its demand on global resources.
Dr Robert Sparrow
Development economics, social policy evaluation, child labour and
education, health economics, applied micro-econometrics. Current
research includes health equity and nancial protection in Asia, and
community based health insurance in Ethiopia.
Professor David Stern
Energy economics, climate change, applied time-series
econometrics, and meta-analysis. Current research includes role of
energy and resources in economic growth and the determinants of
environmental impacts, especially air pollution and climate change.
Dr Daniel Suryadarma
Applied econometrics, development economics, labour
economics, economics of education, and poverty and social
protection. Current research includes an empirical analysis of the
effect of minimum wage legislation on child labour.
Professor Luca Tacconi
Environmental governance, social and economic aspects of
deforestation and climate change, payments for environmental
services, research methods for environmental management, and
governance and economic implications of avoided deforestation
activities. Current research includes improving governance,
policy and institutional arrangements to reduce emissions from
deforestation and degradation (REDD) in Indonesia.
Dr Phuc Xuan To
Benet distribution systems for Payments for Ecosystem Services
(PES), and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest
Degradation (REDD); timber trade and timber market in the
Mekong countries; land use conicts; and forest property. Current
research includes understanding how forest users in Vietnam,
Cambodia and Laos respond to the complex local, national and
regional dimension of the emerging market for forest carbon.
Professor Peter Warr
The economies of Thailand and Indonesia, especially the
measurement of poverty incidence, analysis of its causes and
investigation of the means by which economic policy may be
used to reduce poverty incidence. Current research includes
general equilibrium of Indonesian and Thai economies, especially
as regards the relationship between economic policy and poverty
incidence, and macroeconomic analysis of Thai economy.
Dr Annie Wei
Economic growth and demographic changes, economic
development and labour migration, total factor productivity and
human capital.
Professor Peter Whiteford
Pension and welfare policies in OECD countries, Eastern Europe
and China, child poverty, family assistance policies, welfare reform
and tax reforms, and other aspects of social policy, particularly
ways of supporting the balance between work and family life. He
has published extensively on various aspects of the Australian and
New Zealand systems of income support.
Professor Glenn Withers
Microeconomic policy including competition policy, infrastructure
provision and public expenditure analysis; privatisation and
regulation of business activity; knowledge capital formation;
population and immigration, labour market policy, social and
welfare state institutions, education and training and innovation,
cultural policy, including arts and the media.
Dr Peter J. Wood
Applying game theory to the problem of achieving cooperation
in international climate change negotiations, policy questions
associated with emissions from land use, and carbon pricing
instrument choice. Other mathematical interests include wavelet
theory, operator algebras, and computational topology.
Dr Ying Xu
Banking, foreign bank entry, international economics, economic
growth, foreign direct investment, China, and Asia-Pacic
economies.
Associate Professor Fiona Yap
Political science, comparative government and politics,
government and politics of Asia and the Pacic, citizenship,
economic development policy, public policy, defence studies.
Dr Doracie Zoleta-Nantes
Vulnerability of cities to hazards, socioeconomic and environmental
scenarios associated with Southeast Asia’s changing agrarian
practices, intersecting geographies of migrations, development
policies, and vulnerability to climate extremes. Current research
includes environmental management and urban planning in metro
Manila, the Philippines.
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Emeritus and Adjunct Academic Staff
Adjunct Lecturer Emma Aisbett
Adjunct Professor Arsenio Balisacan
Adjunct Fellow Muhammad Chatib Basri
Mr Roger Beckmann
Adjunct Professor Roger Bradbury
Adjunct Professor Satish Chand
Adjunct Associate Professor Nhu Tuong Che
Adjunct Professor Gordon de Brouwer
Adjunct Associate Professor Suiwah Dean-Leung
Adjunct Associate Professor Philippa Dee
Dr Richard Denniss
Adjunct Associate Professor Leo Dobes
Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale
Emeritus Professor Ron Duncan
Emeritus Professor George Fane
Professor James Fox
Distinguished Professor Ross Garnaut
Adjunct Professor Paul ‘t Hart
Adjunct Associate Professor Yusaku Horiuchi
Emeritus Professor Helen Hughes
Adjunct Professor Sisira Jayasuriya
Adjunct Fellow Tao (Sherry) Kong
Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Lamour
ANU-ANZSOG Chair Professor Evert Lingquist
Adjunct Professor Ngo Van Long
Adjunct Associate Professor Chris Manning
Adjunct Associate Professor Ross McLeod
Adjunct Professor Bob McMullan
Adjunct Fellow Jayant Menon
Emeritus Professor Richard Mulgan
Adjunct Professor Mari Pangestu
Adjunct Professor Ian Thynne
Adjunct Professor Peter Timmer
Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration,
ANZSOG, Head of Research, John Wanna
Adjunct Fellow John Williams
Adjunct Fellow Arief Anshory Yusuf
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
ANTH8006
Social Mapping and Community Politics (12 units)
This course provides a guide to the processes and methods
of social research, with emphasis on qualitative rather than
quantitative research, and on the kinds of research questions
and environments that researchers are liable to encounter in
development work. The research process can be considered
to be divided into four phases: formulating research questions
(and dealing with research requests); gathering data; analysing
data; and writing up. This course focuses especially on the
data-gathering phase. It explores the ‘rapid assessment’
methods and tools that have become standard in many kinds
of development work in the last two to three decades. These
tools are used to map or document the varied relationships
between members of local communities and their environmental,
social and cultural resources. It also explores the concept
of ‘participation’ that underlies those tools. We will consider
differences and similarities between these participatory
development tools and standard anthropological methods.
Throughout, we will keep in mind questions of research ethics,
kinds of knowledge and observation, and the politics, conicts
and dynamics of research with and within local communities.
ANTH8007
Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development
This course will focus on important and current concepts in
development policy and practice, and explore their background
in the social sciences. We will examine the rise of discourses
of development, including ideas about modernisation,
development and underdevelopment, and the North–South
(or First World–Third World) divide; relationships between
people in local communities and the state; concepts of civil
society and community; participation and empowerment; the
rise of the framework of ‘social capital’; gender; poverty and
basic needs; justice and human rights; the place of notions
of indigeneity; and views about sustainability and appropriate
technology in development. In examining the background to
development concepts in the social sciences, we will explore
the relationships and tensions between their uses there and in
forms of development, trying to identify pitfalls and positives.
ANTH8008
Social Impact Studies in Project Cycle
This course will examine social impact assessment during the
various stages of the project cycle. Social impact assessment
will be examined in relation to infrastructure, resource
extraction, development projects, corporate activities and
climate change. Alternative approaches to the assessment of
impacts on livelihoods, institutions, social structures, equity,
culture and quality of life will be examined. The course will
place strong emphasis on practical case studies. Students
will be given the opportunity to explore alternative impact
assessment approaches in a number of sectors and within
different national jurisdictions.
ANTH8009
Development in Practice
This course deals with the practicalities of working in
development. It will critically examine the key institutional actors
that implement development projects: NGOs and bilateral and
multilateral donors. Within this broader institutional environment,
the course will critically examine institutional processes and
priorities, the role of advocacy, the ethics of development
practice, how development workers operate in the eld, and
how development projects are conceived and managed.
ANTH8019
Practical Studies in Social Analysis (6 units)
This course provides a guide to the processes and methods
of social research, with emphasis on qualitative rather than
quantitative research, and on the kinds of research questions
and environments that researchers are liable to encounter in
development work. The research process can be considered
to be divided into four phases: formulating research questions
(and dealing with research requests); gathering data; analysing
data; and writing up. This course focuses especially on the
data-gathering phase. It explores the ‘rapid assessment’
methods and tools that have become standard in many kinds
of development work in the last two to three decades. These
tools are used to map or document the varied relationships
between members of local communities and their environmental,
social and cultural resources. It also explores the concept
of ‘participation’ that underlies those tools. We will consider
differences and similarities between these participatory
development tools and standard anthropological methods.
Throughout, we will keep in mind questions of research ethics,
kinds of knowledge and observation, and the politics, conicts
and dynamics of research with and within local communities.
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ANTH8028
Introduction to Social Impact Studies
This unit provides a detailed introduction to the principles and
methodologies of social impact assessment. It examines the
legislative and policy environments for social assessment, the
methodologies used by social assessment practitioners, and
detailed case studies of actual situations, such as community
relocation, compensation/royalty payments, natural disasters and
education programs. Extensive use is made of case study material
from Australia and the Asia-Pacic region. There are numerous
opportunities for student involvement in practical exercises.
ANTH8039
Exploring Gender and Development
This course introduces some key elements of the scholarly
debates and analytical tools in the eld of gender and
development, including theories about gender and
empowerment and contemporary approaches to gender equity
and mainstreaming. It presents thought-provoking regional and
sectoral case studies from different cultural contexts, including
South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacic and indigenous societies.
Key themes such as empowerment, water and mining will also
be explored. The approach is critical, bottom-up and inclusive. A
key question that will be addressed throughout the course is why
– despite the sophistication of scholarly understanding of gender
and inequality – it is still difcult to fully address gender issues
in development projects and programs. The course will benet
students who want to undertake higher academic research,
who want to work as development practitioners or who want to
acquire an in-depth understanding of the eld.
ANTH8040
Australian Indigenous Policy
This course will explore public policy towards Indigenous
Australians in recent years and also, to some extent, historically.
It will examine the idea of competing principles in Indigenous
policy and its practice, and how the balancing of these might
vary both historically and geographically. The roles of specialists
and generalists, and of ideology and moralism, in Indigenous
policy will also be discussed. The course will then examine a
number of policy sectors that are central to recent debates in the
Indigenous policy arena: income support, alcohol, child protection
and criminal justice, health, housing, land, youth and education.
Different sectors will be used to think about various aspects
and patterns of Indigenous policy processes, such as relations
between Indigenous-specic and general policy mechanisms.
A guest lecturer will also explore ideas around the policy
implications of mobility. The course will look at recent experiments
in mainstreaming and whole-of-government policy to identify
strengths as well as limitations. Finally, it will look at ‘failure’ and
‘success’ in Australian Indigenous policy and develop the idea that
they are linked to different rhetorical registers.
ANTH8043
Conict and Development in the Pacic
The course will explore contemporary debates about conict
and social disorder in the Pacic, drawing on the research and
policy work of members of the State Society and Governance
in Melanesia Program in the College of Asia and the Pacic.
Using theoretical approaches drawn from the disciplines of
anthropology, criminology and conict studies, the course
aims to equip students with tools to facilitate the analysis
and understanding of social order and disorder. The practical
implications of these approaches will be demonstrated through
an examination of case studies from Papua New Guinea, the
Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji. The course will explore
competing notions of social order; the role of state and
non-state mechanisms in social control; internal and external
responses to problems of law and order in the Asia-Pacic;
and the dynamics of peace processes and post-conict
reconstruction throughout the region. In examining these topics,
students will be exposed to a variety of perspectives, including
academic, international donor, domestic government and civil
society discourses.
ANTH8044
Environment Management and Indigenous Peoples
Through critical social inquiry, this course examines the
triangular relationship between indigenous peoples, the agents
of extractive industries that target their resources, and the
various agencies and organisations involved in the conservation
of natural and cultural heritage values. The rst half of the
course will focus mainly on the relationship between mining
companies and indigenous communities, while the second will
examine the relationship between indigenous communities and
conservation organisations. These relationships will be examined
in a variety of national settings across the Asia-Pacic region
(including Australia) with a view to establishing similarities and
differences between the two types of relationship in different
jurisdictions. The course involves in-depth exploration of the
issues and relationships involved in environmental management
with indigenous peoples. A major component of the course is
a research-based case study of the student’s choosing, to be
supervised and peer reviewed during the course.
ANTH8045
Conict and Development in the Pacic
ANTH8045 is taught with ANTH8046 (Introduction to Australian
Indigenous Development). This course explores the theory and
practice of development as it relates to Indigenous peoples in
Australia. It outlines the various ideas and models for Indigenous
development that have been advanced over the years and
considers these in light of the latest information on Indigenous
socioeconomic status and development practice. Along the
way it assesses whether the aim of development is to achieve
equality in outcomes or to facilitate choice and self-determination;
whether such goals are mutually exclusive; and how they
might best be achieved – through top-down or bottom-up
processes. The course links these questions to debates and
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practice in the international development arena with a view
to exploring an appropriate conceptualisation of Indigenous
Australian development. A selection of Australia’s leading social
science researchers and development practitioners present
the lectures, with some focus on remote areas. Specic topics
covered include the relationship between demography and
development, measures of poverty and inequality, land tenure and
development, hybrid economies, cultural and natural resource
management, engagement with large-scale resource projects, the
accommodation of culture, development in cities, and the role of
government and governance.
ANTH8048 MAAPD Honours Thesis /
ANTH8053P MAAPD Thesis
In these courses, students will undertake a substantial
research project on a development policy or issue of their
choice in order to complete the Research component of the
MAAPD (Research) program. The course is designed for
students wanting to do in-depth research as a component
of their MAAPD studies as well as providing a preparatory
opportunity for PhD studies. In collaboration with the Course
Convenor and a nominated supervisor, students will choose
a topic of interest to them and complete a research project
based on this topic, which may include an option for limited
eld work. In the latter case, ethics clearance would generally
be required. The course program will involve the development
of a research proposal, presentation of a seminar and the
write-up of the project in a sub-thesis of 20,000 words.
BUSN7017
Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility,
Accounting and Reporting
This course introduces students to the roles of corporations
in society and their accountability, accounting and reporting
issues in the context of sustainability and social justice. It
examines issues in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR),
emphasising accountability for, and reporting of, the social and
environmental effects of a corporation’s economic actions to
stakeholders. This extends the corporation’s accountability
beyond nancial disclosures to shareholders and is predicated
on the assumption that corporations have social responsibilities
that are much broader than generating shareholder wealth.
CRWF8000
Government, Markets and Global Change
Questions of how societies manage common policy problems –
such as how to encourage economic growth, how to ensure the
sustainability of natural resources and how to design institutions
to ensure good governance – occupy the minds of policymakers
worldwide. In this course, we investigate such challenges from
a disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspective. Students will
learn about the key analytical frameworks used to consider
these challenges, derived from economics, political science
and environmental management. They will also participate in
multi-disciplinary workshops to consider the application of these
frameworks to a series of case studies. This offers students a
unique cross-disciplinary opportunity to apply theory to practice
and develop their applied policy skills. Drawing on the expertise
of staff in Crawford School, the course offers students a
comparative perspective on these challenging policy problems,
and points to similarities and differences in how countries cope
with common global issues.
CRWF8001
Economic Globalisation and the Environment
The impact of globalisation on the natural environment is
an important and politically charged question. This course
will examine the mechanisms through which the economic
aspects of globalisation (trade and foreign investment
ows) and its institutional aspects (international trade and
investment agreements) affect the natural environment both
locally and globally. Primarily using an economic approach,
the course will present both theory and evidence and explain
the discrepancies between the two. It will also examine the
bases on which vastly different claims about the impact of
globalisation on the environment are made.
CRWF8003
International Water Politics
Participants will gain an overview of the controversies involved
in the international debate about the management of water
conicts and acquire a good understanding of a particular
issue that they choose to explore in-depth. Subjects will
include multi-level water governance, the dispute about large
dams, environmental sustainability, public participation, NGOs,
systems of water law, water markets, environmental refugees,
climate change adaptation, international relations and
denitions of water security. Conicts over water take many
forms. The Rhine, Colorado, Danube, Nile, Jordan, Euphrates,
the Aral Sea, Ganges, Amazon, Yangtze, Mekong and Murray-
Darling river systems as well as the vast groundwater basins of
northern India, China and the high plains of the United States,
are just a few examples of hydrological systems in decline
because of inadequate governance.
CRWF8004
Case Studies in Economic Policy
The course aims to provide an understanding for students
of the role, nature and empirical basis necessary for the
development of sound economic policy. The approach would
be to begin with around 8-10 detailed case studies, focusing
where appropriate on the economic principles involved, and
paying important attention to the empirical evidence used
to develop the policy framework. These would be followed
by several sessions motivated by the goal of integrating the
material into an overriding framework of economic policy
development. The aim of the course is to help equip students
with: an understanding of the critical importance of a clear
denition of what an economic policy problem is; the skills
to help develop useful frameworks with which to analyse
economic policy problems; and some capacities to recognise
the relevance and limitations of empirical evidence for the
denition of a policy problem and its potential solution.
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CRWF8006
International Climate Change Policy and Economics
Climate change is a global problem the nature of which has
never been seen before. How and whether a world of sovereign
states can cooperate to the degree required to reduce the risks
of climate change to manageable levels are questions of great
global importance. There is no political or expert consensus,
however, about the way forward. Some approaches have been
trialled. Many others have been proposed. All are debated.
This course will introduce students to international climate
change policy. It will study the global growth of emissions,
various approaches to estimating the damage of climate
change and the costs of mitigation, the international framework
for cooperation on climate change as it evolves (from Kyoto
through Bali and Copenhagen to Cancun), and the economics
and international politics of global public good provision. It
will then analyse existing approaches and the main proposed
international policy and institutional options for mitigating and
adapting to climate change.
CRWF8009
Energy Politics and Governance
Energy is a potent and dynamic area of public policy. It fuels
our homes, workplaces, industries, economies and transport
systems. At the same time conicts over energy resources have
led to global economic shocks, and even wars. Further energy
crises loom large: affordable sources of fossil fuels are on the
decline while energy demand continues to rise. Meanwhile,
nations and global institutions are struggling to respond to
the challenge of climate change. All this makes contemporary
energy governance a complex business. For example, how can
governments ensure affordable sources of energy in the future?
What are the most effective ways to promote low-carbon
sources of energy, such as wind and solar? Does nuclear
energy offer the solution? To what extent do we need to reform
existing sociotechnical and administrative systems associated
with the generation, distribution and use of energy? How are
consumers and citizens responding to climate change, and
what role might they play in future energy reforms? These are
some of the questions that will be addressed by this course.
CRWF8011
The Global Trading System
This course provides an introduction to the World Trade
Organization (WTO). The main topics in this course include the
basics of international trade theories and policies, the principles,
nature, scope and structure of the WTO, the WTO’s trade
dispute settlement mechanism and the trade policy review
mechanism, the WTO Agreements and their effects on world
trade, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS),
and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS). The course will also examine the
relationships between the multilateral trading system and the
preferential trading arrangements, and the issues facing the
global trading system.
CRWF8013
Water Economics and Governance
The course will focus on the economics of water resources
and the governance of water (urban and rural) from both an
Australian and international perspective. It has been designed
to give students a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of
water economics and water planning. It will be structured
around the themes of water scarcity, efciency, water markets,
urban water, rural water, equity, and water for the environment.
Upon completion of the course students will know how to
apply economic principles to understand the problem of water
scarcity, and how it can be mitigated in keeping with the three
pillars of integrated water resource management.
CRWF8014
Domestic Climate Change Policy and Economics
Climate change has become a key concern for policymaking,
and in many countries is seen as part of core economic
policy. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions will require changes
in technologies, production and consumption. To achieve
climate change mitigation at minimal economic cost, and with
acceptable changes to wealth distribution, requires well designed
economic policies. Meanwhile, communities and businesses
will need to prepare for impacts from climate change and adapt
to them, presenting a different set of challenges for policy. This
course provides an introduction to the principles and practice
of domestic economic policymaking for climate change. It will
introduce students to the major debates and policy instruments,
and provide grounding for analysis of policy options. The course
does not aim for exhaustive coverage of climate policy, rather it
focuses on principles, key issues and approaches to analysis.
The course covers the theory and practice of carbon pricing,
supplementary policies such as technology support, policies
in the electricity and land sectors, and the political economy
of climate change mitigation policies. The course also looks
at adaptation to climate change, looking at policy approaches
and design options. The course has a focus on domestic
climate policy issues in developed and developing countries.
Case studies (including from Australia, Europe, the United
States, China and Indonesia) are used to illuminate theoretical
perspectives. Economic concepts will be presented in a way
that is accessible to non-economists. Students are encouraged
to actively engage and share their own perspectives. The
course is a complement to the course CRWF8006 (International
Climate Change Policy and Economics) which focuses on the
international dimensions and some of the fundamental tenets of
climate change economics.
CRWF8016
Food Wars: Food Security and Agricultural Policy
This course aims to provide a comparative lens for understanding
key issues and responses in agricultural policy, and the means
to understand the challenges of agricultural reform in the context
of agrarian politics. Spikes in food prices and fears stirred up
by a changing climate, combined with increasing energy and
water needs, have heightened concerns about food security
and the sustainability of agriculture in developing countries.
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The convergence of pressures on agriculture has affected
food availability and the purchasing power of the poor. While
spikes in food prices have led to social unrest in some places,
commodity booms have led to rapid agrarian change in others.
In this heated climate, critical policy debates have emerged
regarding how agriculture might develop in a fashion that reduces
environmental and social inequalities and vulnerabilities, and
under what conditions specic policies and projects can support
an agriculture-for-development agenda that is more friendly to
the poor and to the environment. International policy approaches
have sought to promote agricultural development while working
to reduce the risks to vulnerable populations. For instance, there
are initiatives to use legal tools to empower the poor, to develop
private sector smallholder development models that contribute to
poverty reduction, to develop corporate responsibility processes
and agendas that rework value chains and ensure a more
equitable distribution of the benets from agricultural development,
and to support adaptation to risk from extreme climatic events.
CRWF8017
Energy Economics
The course examines the role of energy in economic activity,
economic methods of assessing energy technologies,
projects, and policies, and debates concerning alternative
future energy scenarios. Both fossil fuels and renewable and
nuclear energy sources will be studied as well as energy
efciency and conservation. Additional topics include the
environmental impacts of energy use including climate change
and the role of energy in economic development.
The course does not assume any economics background,
but does assume a willingness and ability to learn methods of
economic analysis quickly so that the course is also relevant
to students in economics based programs. However, it is an
inherently interdisciplinary course, drawing on economics and
natural sciences including physics and geology. Compared to
existing energy economics courses at other universities, there
is more focus on the biophysical foundations of the energy
economy than on analysis of energy markets.
DIPL8001
Transnational Diplomacy
This course introduces students to diplomacy as a distinct
area of study. It opens by analysing classical accounts
of diplomacy as consisting of a process of dialogue and
negotiation between agents of the state, then examines how
processes of globalisation and fragmentation have affected
the nature of diplomatic activity. Particular attention is paid to
three aspects of transnational diplomacy: the development
of cross-border partnerships between state and non-state
actors in setting and promoting multilateral political agendas;
the contribution of formalised ‘second-track’ diplomacy to the
management of relations between states, and between state
and non-state actors; and the involvement of professional
diplomats in rebuilding disrupted states. The course draws
extensively on concrete examples to highlight recent changes
in diplomatic practice, and explores political, legal and ethical
questions arising from the changing character of diplomacy.
DIPL8002
Contemporary Challenges in Diplomacy: Politics,
Economics, Law and Strategy
This course examines in detail a range of emerging issues in
the Asia-Pacic region and beyond that have the potential to
demand innovative diplomatic responses. These may include,
but are not limited to: the changing boundaries and constraints
of state sovereignty, and the signicance of multilateral
institutions and regimes as devices for structuring political
action; the salience of international law in an era of unipolar
dominance by a hyperpower; the scope for management of
economic relations in an era of unprecedented capital mobility;
the complexities of intervention decisions in circumstances
where the corruption or breakdown of the state gives rise to
serious human rights violations; and the difculties of coping
with transnational security challenges such as terrorism and
the threat posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction.
DIPL8003
Case Studies in Diplomacy
This course offers detailed examination of examples of diplomacy,
both routine and crisis, with a view to identifying lessons that
practitioners might draw for the future. These case studies may
include, but are not limited to: the crafting of arrangements and
institutions for the maintenance of order in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries; European crises of the late 1930s; the Cuban
missile crisis; ‘shuttle diplomacy’ in the Middle East; multilateral
trade negotiations; the use of ‘good ofces diplomacy’ by the
UN Secretary-General in Afghanistan; the management of
political tensions in South Asia; the crafting and implementation
of transition programs for Cambodia and East Timor; the efforts
to generate a response to the Rwandan genocide in 1994; and
bargaining and negotiation in the UN Security Council prior to the
outbreak of war in Iraq in March 2003.
DIPL8004
Negotiation and Conict Resolution
This course offers students a rigorous introduction to the
theory and practice of conict resolution and negotiation.
It examines various approaches to the denition of conict
and violence, and surveys theories relating to the causes,
management, and prevention of conict, either interstate or
intrastate. It also seeks to identify the circumstances in which
diplomatic interventions can contribute to the amelioration of
conict, and draws on examples from the Asia-Pacic region
to highlight some of the key challenges involved in resolving
deep-rooted conicts.
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ECON8010
Public Economics
The aim of this course is to introduce students to a number
of key topics in public economics. The focus is on relevant
economic theory in this area. The topics include an introduction
to public economics and political economy (voting and rent-
seeking), a review of equilibrium and efciency, departures
from efciency (public goods, externalities and asymmetry of
information), equity and redistribution (social welfare functions
and interpersonal comparability of utility), optimal taxation
(commodity, income and mixed taxes), non-tax instruments for
redistribution, and tax reform.
ECON8015
International Economics
The course aims to provide students with an understanding
of, and the competence to apply economic analysis to, the
main issues confronting business and the economy in the
modern international trading and nancial environment. Issues
of contemporary international debate and policy relevance are
investigated in the context of the development of the core body
of international trade theory, commercial policy and international
monetary economics.
ECON8038
Industrial Organisation
The standard competitive model of market structure is simple
and clear. However, it does not explain the composition of most
industries. Students of industrial organisation depart from the
competitive model by analysing the behaviour of rms and its
impact on market structure, pricing and prots. The course
starts by teaching the tools for studying industrial organisation,
namely some basic microeconomic theory and game theory. It
then looks at various theories on the organisation of rms and
industries, focusing in particular on the strategic interactions
among rms. Topics include price discrimination, product
differentiation, entry barriers, vertical restraints and the role
of information in rm behaviour. An elementary knowledge of
calculus used for simple maximisation is assumed. The honours
and graduate courses cover these topics at a more advanced
level than the pass-level course.
ECON8047
Law and Economics
The course provides an introduction to the economic analysis
of law: the study of interactions between rational, optimising
agents within various legal and institutional settings. The goal is
to teach students how to apply the tools of economic analysis
to gain insights into the effects of legal rules and institutions and
their development over time. The course covers issues in the
economic analysis of tort law, property law, contract law, family
law, constitutional law, criminal law, enforcement, punishment
and deterrence, litigation and settlement, criminal and civil
procedure, and rules of evidence.
ECON8050
Economic Growth
This course explores theoretical developments in the analysis
of economic growth and introduces current debates on
evidence and policy relevant to the growth performance of both
developed and developing economies. The course is structured
around a series of key papers from journals. The theoretical
material is reinforced by tutorial exercises that require students
to understand and interpret the mathematics and economics of
the growth models.
EMDV8001
Environmental Sustainability, Health and Development
The principal aim of the course is to provide students with an
understanding of the interactions between population health
and the status and management of the environment. This will
be examined in the context of environmental sustainability,
with a focus on the changes that economic development
and demographic change can bring both to the environment
and to population health. The course will also touch upon the
environmental sustainability and health sustainability of human
society. The course starts with a consideration of different types
of sustainability, examined in the light of human behaviour. It
will then introduce basic demography and its signicance to
population health and national development and examine how
demographic factors, environmental degradation and poor
environmental management together affect population health. It
will touch upon the main health issues in developing countries
(specically AIDS, nutritional deciencies, malaria, TB, certain
parasitic conditions and waterborne infections) and compare
the situation to developed nations. Pollution and toxicology will
be taught via a focus on air quality, which is a major issue in
most cities of the developing world. The possible health effects
of climate change will also be briey examined. The course
covers a wide eld of different science-based disciplines,
presented by an experienced communicator, for students who
are not scientic specialists, but who have basic numeracy and
an understanding of and interest in development issues.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
EMDV8002
Methods for Environmental Decision-making
This course is designed to provide students with the specialist
skills needed to gather, integrate and interpret information
useful to the environmental decision-making process. It
builds on the knowledge of environmental and resource
management tools covered in EMDV8102 Research Methods
for Environmental Management. The course covers cost-benet
analysis, bio-economic modelling, contingent valuation, choice
modelling, travel cost method, hedonic pricing, benet transfer,
multi-criteria analysis, threshold value analysis, and risk and
uncertainty integration.
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EMDV8007
Environmental Policy and Communications
This course will discuss how public policy is developed
and explain the role and importance of different forms
of communication for public policy processes, with a
particular focus on contentious environmental issues. Most
of the examples used will have a signicant environmental
component but the themes of the course are also broadly
relevant to the development of other types of policy in
politically pluralist societies such as Australia and the United
States. The course will use public policy and communication
activities in those countries as the starting point but students
from elsewhere will be encouraged to make comparisons
with their home countries. Media such as newspapers,
television, radio and the web will be examined, along with
other forms of communication such as street demonstrations,
political campaigning, advertising and political art such as
cartoons. Related activities will also be considered, including
independent auditing, freedom of information legislation and
various forms of consultation designed to increase public
participation in the policy process.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
EMDV8008
Research Proposal
This course allows students to prepare a research proposal
on a topic of their choice that can be implemented in the
second semester as part of EMDV8066 Research Project.
This course is a requirement (with a minimum Distinction
grade, 70 per cent) for students wanting to enrol in EMDV8066
Research Project in Semester 2. Students attending this
course will learn how to carry out a critical literature review and
develop research questions and hypotheses; how to choose
appropriate research methods to address a problem-focused
research question; and how to structure and write a research
proposal.
EMDV8009
Asia-Pacic Environmental Conicts: Causes and Solutions
Conicts over access to, and control of, resources have been
a constant in human history. Rational policies to manage
increasingly scarce resources often result in seemingly
irrational reactions, many of them rooted in specic cultural
values and misunderstandings as much as varying stakeholder
aims and objectives. This course combines conict and
conict resolution theory with region and resource-specic
case studies to provide a broad-based toolkit for analysing the
causes of resource conicts and nding feasible and enduring
solutions. Emphasis is placed on the uidity of circumstances
and changing mindsets over time.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
EMDV8026
Introduction to Environmental Science
This course aims to give students a sound background in
the biological and physical systems that create the natural
environment of our planet. This basic scientic knowledge
is essential for analysing any environmental or resource
management problem. The course starts with an introduction
to the uniqueness of planet Earth, and continues with an
investigation of Earth’s most special feature, life. Students will
briey revisit the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of
systems, feedback and dynamic equilibria before examining
global processes, bio-geochemical cycles, and the interactions
between biota and the non-living environment. The primary
focus of the course is biological principles, including the
basic chemistry of life (mainly respiration and photosynthesis);
terrestrial and marine environments; classication; evolution
and change; populations, communities and ecosystems;
bio-accumulation; reproductive strategies; biodiversity;
population dynamics and harvesting; and environmental
variability, succession and disturbance. The course also
includes modules on soil, agro-ecology and atmospheric
modication. It covers a wide eld of different science-based
disciplines, presented by an experienced communicator. It is
suitable for students who are not scientic specialists, but who
have basic numeracy and an understanding of and interest in
environmental issues.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
EMDV8066
Research Project
The key achievement of students enrolled in this course is the
preparation of a document that details a research project they
have carried out over the semester. The work is lightly guided
by the course convenor and individually assigned supervisors
drawn from the staff of Crawford School. The choice of topic is
shared between the student, course convenor and supervisor.
The course is an important foundation for further research, and
gives students the opportunity to explore, in-depth, particular
issues of environmental management that are of specic
interest to them.
EMDV8078
Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
The course begins with an explanation of what economics is.
In this explanation, a role for economics in the consideration of
environmental matters is established. The potential for markets
to solve environmental problems is explored and this is
accompanied by an analysis of government, or ‘command and
control’ mechanisms for dealing with environmental issues.
Throughout the course economic principles and techniques
are set out. These include opportunity cost, demand,
transaction costs, property rights and benet cost analysis.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
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EMDV8101
State, Society and Natural Resources
This course provides students with an understanding of, and
the capacity to apply, the key social science practices used
to analyse environmental problems and natural resource
policy. These include common property theory; sociology
of the state and the environment; socio-legal approaches
to natural resource policy; political ecology; environmental
discourses; and community, social capital and participation.
The course introduces students to key conceptual (theoretical)
readings together with case studies demonstrating how
these approaches are applied. Students learn to apply these
frameworks to explain, analyse and evaluate environmental and
natural resource problems and public policy issues.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
EMDV8102
Research Methods for Environmental Management
The course introduces students to qualitative and quantitative
research methods used by the social sciences to study
sustainable environmental management. The course will
increase students’ knowledge of how research is designed
and implemented, enabling them to assess the quality of
research used as an input into policy-making. Students
attending this course will learn to position research within the
major paradigms of science and assess the rigor of proposed
research; use a range of qualitative and quantitative research
methods; develop research questions and hypotheses; and
choose appropriate methods to research them.
EMDV8103
Environmental Assessment
Policies drive environmental outcomes. Accordingly, we need
to develop ways to consider how policies both create and deal
with pressing environmental issues, as well as mechanisms
to force action to improve outcomes. This course provides
students with an understanding of the theory and practice of
the environmental assessment (EA) approaches that are the
principal means of integrating environmental considerations
into governmental decision-making. Course participants study
how EAs have evolved since the 1960s to become the primary
strategy for institutionalising environmental reform; the role of
public participation and science in environmental decision-
making; and how political, social and economic considerations
affect decisions. Under the guidance of a leading environmental
consultant, participants learn to apply the basic principles of
EA to assess development proposals critically, develop public
consultation strategies, and evaluate monitoring and mitigation
in environmental management plans. Following the recent
shift to approaches informed by ecological modernisation and
new environmental policy instruments, participants consider
how the processes of categorising social and environmental
impacts, carrying out assessments and setting out minimum
management standards have been extended beyond the
conventional EA process to environmental management
systems and standard-based self-regulation.
EMDV8104
Environmental Governance
The following questions will guide our work throughout the
semester. What is environmental governance? What are
the principles of good environmental governance? How are
stakeholders involved in governance? What instruments
are available? How can good environmental governance be
designed and implemented? To address these questions,
the course will examine processes and instruments of
environmental governance, by considering both theories and
empirical studies. We focus on theories and issues relating to
national and international governance, public policy formation,
common property management, market and non-market
incentives for resource management, decentralisation, civil
society organisations and corporate environmental behaviour.
EMDV8108
Applied Environmental and Resource Management
The achievement of sustainable development (SD) requires the
skill to apply theoretical knowledge from many elds, including
ecology, social sciences and economics, to practical situations.
This course uses eld trips and other practical exercises to
broaden students’ familiarity with SD issues. Students develop
the skill to conduct background research for environmental
management studies by visiting natural areas and hearing
rst-hand from eld practitioners about SD issues in those
areas. Assessment tasks help students to demonstrate their
ability to apply theory to practice, to show they understand
the constraints on SD, and to practise relevant communication
skills through report writing and presentations.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course.)
EMET8001
Applied Micro-econometrics
This course equips students with the skills required to
undertake independent applied research using modern
econometric methods. Lectures cover the role of theory and
data in model specication, types and sources of data, model
evaluation, and applications of models for testing, policy
analysis and forecasting. Students will undertake regular
practical assignments and a major applied project using
an econometric software package. Topics covered include
modelling dynamics and expectations; simultaneity; discrete
choice models; and time series techniques.
EMET8010
Applied Macro and Financial Econometrics
This course focuses on the development and application
of multivariate time-series methods suitable for analysing
empirical problems that arise in macroeconomics and nancial
economics. The topics covered include full information analysis
of systems of simultaneously determined variables, time series
decompositions and multivariate time series models, and
macro-econometric models. A typical offering would cover
applications of consumption and business cycle theory, asset
price determination, and stochastic policy and control analysis.
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EMET8012
Business and Economic Forecasting
Accurate forecasting of future events and their outcomes
is a crucial input into a successful business or economic
planning process. This course provides an introduction to the
application of various forecasting techniques. The methods
include trend curve extrapolation, smoothing, autoregressions,
regression modelling, leading indicators. The course also looks
at techniques for the evaluation of performance of forecasting
methods and examines the role of forecasts in the decision-
making process. Students will learn how to use the various
techniques in real world forecasting applications.
EMET8014
Fundamentals of Econometric Methods
The overall aim of this course is to provide students with
an advanced understanding of the principles underlying
estimation methods and hypothesis tests in econometrics.
The course rst covers basic probability theory, then
introduces asymptotic approximation theory, and nally moves
to statistics and econometrics. To focus on general ideas,
the course abstracts from real-world issues and turns to the
laboratory/sandbox called mathematics.
ENVS6013
Society and Environmental Change
In a time of rapid population growth, unlimited economic
growth and the threat of climate change, many commentators
are calling for a transformation in the way we manage our
resources, environment and economies. However, bringing
about such societal change is not easy, whether it be at the
global, national or local level. This course considers the complex
drivers behind societal change in pursuit of environmental
objectives. After briey introducing some of the theories on
ecological modernisation and environmental change, and using
case studies from Australia and beyond, the course will explore
how societies can and do pursue environmental change, the
complex relationships between society, economy and the
environment which inuence societal change, the role of the
media in environmental issues and how society perceives them,
and the links between international environmental movements
and local, domestic environmental outcomes.
ENVS6015
GIS and Spatial Analysis
This course provides an introduction to geographic information
systems (GIS) and is based on a hypothetical but realistic
environmental impact study in a small coastal catchment.
GIS is used widely by government agencies and research
organisations in the environmental sciences to assist with
resource and environmental management decision-making,
in part due to the increasing availability of high-quality digital
spatial data. This course aims to develop both a solid theoretical
understanding of and a comprehensive practical grounding
in GIS, through the construction and integration of a range of
spatial models. Students will complete realistic hydrological,
erosion, conservation, wildlife habitat, forest, agriculture, re
and economic models using GIS. The integration of these
sub-models to inform decision-makers about recommended
land-use options will be based on the multi-criteria evaluation
procedure and the multiple objective land-use allocation model.
ENVS6304
Land and Catchment Management
This course develops multi-disciplinary skills by integrating
scientic knowledge and environmental management, using
examples of major environmental issues related to land and
marine environments, including the coastal zone. Through
lectures, research projects and eld visits, students learn about
mine site rehabilitation; national parks and their management;
management of indigenous lands; wildlife management for
conservation and production; sustainable management
of land and water resources in rangelands and croplands;
management of river systems and catchments; and coastal
zone management. This course is relevant to soil scientists,
foresters, geographers, geologists and others involved in land
and catchment management.
ENVS6555
Water Resource Management
The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of issues
and methods in water resource management, especially within
the framework of total, or integrated, catchment management.
The course gives an introduction to the unique hydrology
of Australia; major issues in water resource management;
the implications of past water management practices;
the principles of integrated catchment management and
sustainability; and current management tools and strategies.
Topics include the components of the hydrological cycle;
impacts of land and water management on water quantity
and quality; water demand and allocation among users,
including the environment; the institutional and policy aspects
of water resource management; on-ground water resource
management strategies; and integrated modelling of water and
land resources. The course emphasises the interdisciplinary
nature of water resource management and the role of integrated
assessment, a method of resolving water management
problems by investigating the physical, economic, social and
institutional components of a problem.
ENVS8003
Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation
This course examines the climate change problem in terms
of vulnerability and adaptation, primarily from a scientic,
societal and policy perspective. There is now a certain amount
of unavoidable climate change, and therefore there is a need
to adapt to these changing climatic conditions and their
consequences. The need to adapt and the kinds of adaptation
responses necessary will depend on how the climate changes
at a specic location over time, whether the direct or indirect
impacts are positive or negative, and the capacity of people
and systems to respond. In considering climate change
vulnerability and adaptation as a eld of study, we focus on
key theories (conceptual frameworks), methods and sources
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of information. Key concepts include the IPCC assessment
framework, the ‘co-benet’ and ‘no-regret’ policy responses, and
adaptation evaluation criteria. Analytical methods covered in the
course include climate change scenario analysis, collaborative
conceptual modelling, Bayesian belief modelling and sectoral
impact models. The course is taught through lectures, online
modules, workshop discussions and group work, and exercises
in practical data analysis.
IDEC8001
Applied Economics: Cost-Benet Analysis
The broad purpose of cost-benet analysis (CBA) is to help
project evaluation and social decision-making. More specically,
the objective is to facilitate the more efcient allocation of
society’s resources. This course introduces the basic tools and
theoretical framework for CBA. Emphasis will be placed on
hand-on learning experience, and applications in the context of
developing countries.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
IDEC8002
Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy
This series of lectures will acquaint students with the analytical
tools of modern macroeconomics in a way that develops
economic intuition as well as technical knowhow. We review
some fundamental models of the short-run Keynesian variety
before discussing how saving and investment decisions
by individual agents determine the aggregate growth rate
of an economy from a long-run perspective. The course
will emphasise the importance of strategic interactions and
externalities for aggregate outcomes. It will also examine the
analytical basis of key debates on the causes of ination.
IDEC8003
Issues in Development Policy
This course is an introduction to the analysis of core issues in
economic development. It is an applied course that tackles
major real work problems faced by policymakers especially in
developing countries. The course combines description and
analysis with an emphasis on the elaboration of simple and
useful theoretical models for an understanding of the issues
that comprise the subject of development economics. Its
aim is to provide students with some foundational analytic
tools for addressing core problems associated with economic
development today while drawing on some experiences from
developing economies.
IDEC8007
Aid and Development Policy
While it is widely acknowledged that the fundamental
determinants of development success are domestic in nature,
external factors can be important. Indeed, developed countries
are becoming increasingly activist in their deployment of a
range of tools, from aid to migration to military intervention, to
promote development (or at least halt deterioration) in poor
and often unstable countries around the world. The course will
introduce students to a range of analysis and debates around
overseas development assistance, including the policy tools
that rich countries use, either intentionally or inadvertently, to
promote or hinder development in poor countries.
IDEC8008
Open Economy Macroeconomics, Finance and Development
This is a graduate level course on international
macroeconomics. The course is aimed at (i) understanding
basic notions of macroeconomics, (ii) being equipped with
the basic analytical tools (models) for policy analysis both in
the closed economy and the open economies, and (iii) being
able to consider the real-world problem, such as the recent
nancial crisis, through the lens of these tools. Central issues
considered in the course include (i) capital ows, (ii) international
transmission of shocks, and (iv) the role of stabilisation policy.
IDEC8009
Trade, Development and the Asia-Pacic Economy
This intensive course provides necessary inputs to understand
the sources of economic growth, international trade, and
globalisation mainly from the policy perspective of developing
countries in the Asia-Pacic region. It is more of a policy analysis
course than a pure theoretical course. Drawing on the most
relevant theories, this course will answer important development
questions of How do some countries grow faster than others?
What are the sources of growth? What is the role of international
trade in the growth process of a country? Why do governments in
developing countries follow the so called restrictive trade policies?
Has globalisation contributed to reduction in poverty across
developing countries? Can Ofcial Development Assistance
be used for climate change mitigation and adaptation? The
course will discuss in detail some of the important analytical
methodologies that are followed in the literature to answer the
above questions empirically. Though lecture notes in the form
of power point presentations are given, students need to read
the papers included in the reading brick along with the readings
suggested. Further readings may be given.
Students will be asked to form a group of three students to
work collectively on a research topic agreed by the lecturer.
Each group needs to collectively make a presentation in the
class and needs to submit a nal version of their research at the
end of the course.
IDEC8010
Quantitative International Economics
This course will acquaint the student with the quantitative
techniques employed in international trade. This course is divided
into two main components: the rst part introduces important
concepts and provides a foundation for understanding the ows
and patterns of trade across countries. The second part deals with
empirical measurements of the links between trade and economic
welfare. The selected topics covered in this context are: regional
economic integration, exchange rate and trade, trade policy and
environment, and trade, growth and poverty reduction.
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IDEC8011
Masters Research Essay
This course provides the students with an opportunity to
pursue independent research on a topic of their choice in
economics, under the guidance of an economics academic at
ANU. Normally the Master’s Research Essay will have a strong
quantitative component, but analytical and qualitative essays are
also allowed. The student must develop a clear and interesting
research question, bring evidence to bear on this question,
and provide detail on the research methodology, all results and
implications in a well-articulated and analytical manner. The
essay should not exceed 10,000 words.
IDEC8012
Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the Asia-Pacic
This course examines key analytical, empirical and policy
issues in monetary policy and central banking. There is a strong
emphasis on theory supported by a range of applications, in
particular to the Asia-Pacic region. Topics covered include
empirical features of ination and output, the monetary
transmission mechanism, MIU and CIA models of ination,
the Cagan model of ination, the credit channel, welfare costs
of ination and deation, public nance aspects of monetary
policy, structural uncertainty, time inconsistency, targeting
regimes, instrument choice, open economy issues of monetary
economics, New Keynesian models of ination, and models
with micro foundations. Time permitting, additional topics will
include recent evidence on money illusion, indeterminacy,
multiple equilibria, sunspots, and other advanced topics. Two of
the lectures will be guest lectures given by eminent academic/
central bankers with decades of policy experience.
IDEC8014
Banking, Finance and Monetary Policy in the Asia-
Pacic Region
This intensive course gives students an appreciation of the
operation and importance of banking institutions, nancial
markets, the money supply and monetary policy in the
contemporary economy. It begins with an introduction to the
functions of money, the creation and control of the money
supply, the creation of credit, and the operation and structure
of nancial markets. This leads to an understanding of the
functions of interest rates. The course then provides the tools
to understand the operation of the real macro economy and
the operation of monetary policy. The course also describes
how central banks think about monetary policy in practice and
considers whether ination targeting is welfare maximising in
theory and practice. If there is enough time, it then addresses
three special topics: nancial stability; how the world achieved
consensus on monetary policy; and nancial integration in the
Asian region.
IDEC8015
Mathematical Methods in Applied Economics
This course introduces students to a range of mathematical
techniques and concepts required for modelling and analysing
economic problems. Topics include calculus, matrix algebra,
static constrained optimisation, non-linear programming, the
envelope theorem, difference and differential equations, phase-
plane diagrams, optimal control theory, calculus of variations and
an introduction to dynamic programming. Time permitting, it will
also include an introduction to stochastic calculus and robust
control theory. The mathematical methods and techniques will
be applied to specic problems from all areas of economics.
IDEC8016
Microeconomic Analysis and Policy
Microeconomic Analysis and Policy is a course in modern
microeconomic theory. It is designed for the dual purposes of
giving students a solid grasp of basic microeconomic theory
and a sound understanding of its potential applications in
important policy areas such as price regulation, tax policy,
and the environment. It addresses the broad methodological
topics of consumption theory, production theory, theories of the
competitive market, non-competitive markets, game theory, and
general equilibrium theory.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
IDEC8017
Econometric Techniques
This course is an introduction for economics graduate students
to the techniques of econometrics. The emphasis is on the
essential ideas and the applications of econometric methods
rather than on technical and theoretical details. However the
results are not just presented but instead are derived using a
mixture of rigour and intuition so as to leave as few loose ends as
possible. We recognise that available economic data are either
cross sectional (observations on several economic units - usually
countries, rms or households - at a single point in time) or time
series (observations on one economic unit over time), or panel
(observations on several economic units followed through time),
and each type of data may need its special set of tools. We start
with the linear regression model, which is the simplest model
for explaining one variable using several explanatory variables,
and then move to an introduction to ‘micro-econometrics’, ie,
methods most useful for the analysis of cross sectional data,
and an introduction to ‘macro-econometrics’, ie, methods most
useful for the analysis of aggregate data over time.
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IDEC8018
Agricultural Economics and Resource Policy
This course examines the various analytical frameworks by which
agricultural and natural resource policy issues may be assessed.
The topics covered include common property and property
rights, resource rents and rent-seeking behaviour, the new
institutional economics, public choice issues and performance
assessment. The policy issues covered include the allocation
of water, greenhouse emissions, rural restructuring, sheries
policy, land use and environment, and international trade. Upon
completion of the course students will be expected to have an
understanding of the major considerations related to important
agricultural and natural resource policy issues, and to be capable
of using a number of different analytical frameworks to provide
critical and constructive comments on these issues.
IDEC8020
Applied Economic Dynamics
This Master and PhD level course emphasises simulation
techniques and numerical methods. Topics include deterministic
dynamic systems, transitional dynamics and stochastic
optimal control theory, and their application to natural resource
economics, macroeconomic dynamics and economic growth.
Students will be required to submit a research project that
numerically simulates solution paths of some dynamic problem of
interest, using either Maple or Mathematica.
IDEC8021
The Chinese Economy
This course examines China’s successful experiences
and lessons learned from the standpoints of economic
transformation, economic development, open macroeconomics
and institutional economics. First, the course discusses the
transformation of the Chinese economy from a centrally-planned
to a market one by highlighting the key differences between a
planned and market economy, the sequencing of reform, and
the importance of carrying out ownership reform and building
market-compatible institutions. Second, the course analyses the
development experience of Chinese transformation by covering
issues such as urbanisation, income distribution, labour market
development, banking sector reform, regional development, scal
system reform, international trade and investment, China’s rapid
industrialisation and its increasing demand for energy and mineral
resources, and the environment. Third, the course examines
the macroeconomic dimension of economic transformation
by looking at the importance of maintaining macroeconomic
stability in the process of reform and liberalisation (including both
current and capital account liberalisation), the key sources of,
and factor contributions to, economic growth in China, and the
formation and implementation of China’s exchange rate policy,
China’s daunting task of managing its foreign reserves, China’s
conformity to the WTO and the prospect of internationalising
its currency, the RMB. Finally, the course discusses some of
the driving forces that have had an impact on China’s growth
path and offers some in-depth analyses as to how China could
confront the challenges in ensuring its future growth is not only
efcient, but also equitable and sustainable. The course will also
discuss the impact of the global nancial crisis (GFC) on the
economic growth in China and how China can play an important
role in stimulating its economy, dealing with the global economic
imbalances, and confronting the challenges of both demographic
shift and climate change.
IDEC8022
Economic Development
This course will examine the principal issues associated
with economic development, with the objective of preparing
students for advanced study and policy-oriented research.
It will emphasise the economy-wide aspects of economic
development, with special reference to the international
dimensions of national policy-making. The course is designed
for students at the Master degree level. A general knowledge of
macroeconomics, at least at the advanced undergraduate level,
is assumed.
IDEC8025
Empirical Public Finance
This course is an introduction to the economic analyses of
incentives generated by tax systems and income transfer
programs. The emphasis is on understanding how, and the
extent to which, individuals and rms react to those policies—
the central question addressed in the growing eld of empirical
public nance. The discussions on key design elements of
those policies are expected to foster students’ understanding
of important trade-offs involved in implementing government
policies. The range of topics is: The effects of taxes on labour
supply, saving, investment, corporations; unemployment
insurance; disability insurance; workers’ compensation; intra-
government transfer; tax evasion. Examples will be drawn
from taxes and income transfer programs implemented in the
Asia-Pacic region. The course is structured around one of the
important tools in empirical analysis in economics—the quasi-
experimental approach. By reading articles that apply quasi-
experiments for each topic, students are expected to develop
practical understanding of issues involved in taking econometric
models to the real world. Students will be exposed to varieties of
estimation techniques.
IDEC8026
Quantitative Policy Impact Evaluation
This course is an introduction to rigorous and policy-relevant
impact evaluation techniques for postgraduate students in
economics and public policy. The course’s main emphasis
is on evaluating the effect of a policy or a naturally occurring
event on the economic and social wellbeing of individuals
who are exposed to the event. The course has a strong focus
on applications – although students will be expected to fully
understand the conceptual underpinnings of each technique.
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IDEC8027
Infrastructure Regulation Policy Economics and Policy
The course will deal with the theory and practice of economic
regulation of infrastructure. It will cover the main regulatory tools
and issues and have a strong policy content. The theoretical
component will cover the rationale for economic regulation,
the choice of regulatory or other intervention, efcient cost
recovery and pricing and other key economic concepts, tools
and institutions for effective implementation. There will be a
component covering reform and governance of public utilities
highlighting the different considerations when regulating public
versus private entities as well as the economics of privatisation
or corporatisation of public enterprises and relevant aspects
of competition policy. There will also be a component covering
circumstances in developing countries. There will also be
a component on institutional arrangements and regulatory
performance. The main regulatory and reform issues will be
covered with case studies for several sectors, including: power,
water, airports and telecommunications. There will also be a
component covering some controversial issues in economic
regulation in particular: the valuation of the regulatory asset
base, the appropriate cost of capital and community service
obligations. There are important policy issues to be considered
for each of these aspects. There will be practical material in
the form of several case studies. To illustrate the application of
economic principles in the theoretical components as well as
the effectiveness of institutional arrangements.
IDEC8053
Environmental Economics
The course focuses on the following three questions. What is
efcient and sustainable use of the environment? What prevents
us from sustainably managing the environment? And what
approaches can we use to improve environmental and natural
resource management? The course is structured around such
themes as the dynamics of the environment; property rights;
the economics of pollution control; renewable resources, non-
renewable resources and scarcity; environmental valuation; and
the global environment.
IDEC8064
Masters Microeconomics
This course considers a range of topics in microeconomic theory
and applied microeconomics. Topics include cost and production
functions, the theory of the rm, prot maximisation, duality,
consumer choice and demand, market structure, basic game
theory and intertemporal choice. The course emphasises a series
of research tools and applications in applied microeconomics,
including stochastic cost and production frontiers, natural
resource and common property problems, productivity and
efciency measures, international trade, incentives and total factor
productivity, intertemporal choice and economic growth.
IDEC8081
The Economics of Incentives and Institutions
Understanding the microeconomic fundamentals of development
problems lies at the heart of an effective development policy
design. The goal of this course is to both understand the
microeconomics of incentives and institutions underlying key
development issues and the tools researchers and policymakers
use to study these issues and to design related policy
interventions. It focuses on both theoretical interpretation and
empirical estimation of microeconomic models of individual,
household, farm, market and non-market institutions that
relate to a range of issues attracting both research and policy
attention in the eld. For each development issue, we will discuss
some theoretical and empirical backgrounds of the institutional
settings and incentives, and will discuss some concrete policy
interventions taken from recent empirical studies around the
world. The course is designed for students with at least advanced
undergraduate-level training in microeconomics and econometrics
and an interest in advanced study and policy-oriented research in
microeconomics of development.
IDEC8083
The Role of Financial Markets and Instruments for
Economic Management and Development
The course is aimed mainly at economists who are, or may
become, economic policy advisers, makers, or implementers.
The emphasis is on the use emerging economies can make of
nancial markets and instruments and on how they can develop
them. The course covers both nance theory and its applications.
Discussions of case studies represent one-third of the required
class work. Prior knowledge of nance is useful but not required.
This course describes the main nancial markets and instruments
and their use for economic management and development, with
emphasis on emerging economies. Four major topics will be
covered: nancial markets and instruments for monetary and scal
policy; nancial markets and instruments for the management
of domestic and foreign debt; the role of the stock market in
development; and investment theory, nancial derivatives, and
the management of ofcial reserves. The course includes a visit to
nancial institutions in Sydney and relies heavily on case studies.
IDEC8088
Applied Economics: Cost-Benet Analysis (Masters)
The objective of Cost-Benet Analysis is to provide decision-
makers with information about the social value of government-
sponsored programs, projects and policies, so that they can
allocate resources in a way that improves the wellbeing of society
as a whole. The course covers the key concepts and tools that
are essential for the evaluation of government activity by applying
cost-benet techniques, including under conditions of uncertainty.
Case studies are employed to give students the condence
and insights required to undertake their individual assignment.
Alternative decision-making approaches will also be presented to
provide a perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of
cost-benet analysis.
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LAWS6503
Law and the Environment
This course is for non-law students only. It seeks to examine
environmental law from both a theoretical and practical
perspective. It will look at the sources of environmental law,
including the role of common law, statutes and, increasingly,
international law. It will also look at environmental regulation,
including economic approaches to land-use control, planning
and licensing systems, environmental decision-making,
enforcement of environmental controls through criminal and civil
means and alternative sanctions, and environmental litigation.
The course will investigate the philosophical and ethical bases
for environmental protection and examine in detail the role of
scientic evidence in environmental decision-making.
POGO8003
Conict and Development
The purpose of this intensive course is to explore the
inter-relationship between conict and development and study
the policy options for interventions during the conict and
then in the post-conict phase. Over the past decade, most
major armed conicts in the world have taken place within,
not between, existing states. These kinds of conicts are a
feature of many developing countries, especially in the Asia-
Pacic region. The rst half of the course will look at the causes
and consequences of conicts and the different pathways
to resolution of conicts. The second half of the course will
focus on the development challenges in the post-conict
environment. Topics covered include economic and social
causes and consequences of conict, different resolutions to
conicts, peacebuilding and peacekeeping, state and institution
building in conict and post-conict environments, development
policy options and challenges post-conict, democracy and
conict management.
POGO8004
Poverty Reduction
Since the early 1990s, there has been an increasing global
emphasis upon poverty and the search for means to reduce
a condition which affects up to twenty per cent of the total
global population. The drive to reduce poverty has become a
major international as well as national policy objective. Rapid
urbanisation and industrialisation in many formerly agricultural
countries has given poverty reduction greater importance as
unemployment and disorder pose political risks for authorities.
Food shortages, high prices and riots have added to concerns
that poverty is becoming more deeply entrenched in some of
the poorest countries. This course is intended to give students
an understanding of the historical character of poverty, including
its changing forms, and explanations regarding poverty’s
persistence; debates about the measurement of poverty,
including the most appropriate measures; and the changing
methods adopted for poverty alleviation and reduction.
POGO8012
Comparative Government and Politics
The aim of this course is to stimulate and develop students’
interest in the empirical study of political change, political
processes, major political struggles, and the adaptation
and institutionalisation of signicant political ideas. Topics
include: political development and modernisation; democracy,
dictatorship and regime change; revolution; political culture
and political attitudes. The primary focus is on democracy
and human rights and how they impact on public policy. The
course introduces students to the main themes of comparative
government and politics. It explores the principles underlying
modern systems of governance, and the design and function
of political institutions as instruments of collective decision-
making and action. The course focuses on the formal
institutions of government which structure the boundaries
of political competition. A key component of the course is
a study of the relationship between government and civil
society and the signicance of globalisation for democratic
governance, especially in regard to the challenges posed
to public administration. These challenges not only call into
question but also seek to redene the very purpose and scope
of government and the role of the public service practitioner.
Case studies from several regions will enable students to
investigate political institutions, including institutional reform, in
very different political systems.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
POGO8015
Services and Investment Policy
This course provides an introduction to the basic theories of
foreign direct investment (FDI) and the principles of international
trade in services. It covers the reasons for FDI; cross-border
mergers and acquisitions; the effects of FDI on the domestic
economy of a host country; national government policies on FDI;
the characteristics of trade in services; and the barriers to trade
in services (particularly the barriers to FDI in services). The course
also examines issues related to FDI in multilateral, regional and
bilateral agreements and the rationale for and potential gains
from negotiating a WTO agreement on investment.
POGO8016
The Economic Way of Thinking 1
This is an introductory course in microeconomics.
Microeconomics examines how consumers and rms make
decisions and how they interact with each other in markets.
This course aims to give students a solid understanding of
basic microeconomic principles and the ability to apply these
tools and ideas. Topics covered include supply and demand,
the costs of production, market structure, international trade,
and the efciency and failure of markets.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
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POGO8019
The Economic Way of Thinking 2
This is an introductory course in macroeconomics. The course
will examine issues in macroeconomics and introduce the
theories of macroeconomics. It will provide students with an
understanding of the methods and indicators used to analyse
macroeconomic performance and the policy instruments
available to tackle economic problems. The latter part of the
course will examine the macroeconomic challenges facing most
countries, including economic growth, unemployment, ination
and external instability.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
POGO8021
Ethics and Public Policy
How can public leaders exercise ethical leadership, and how
can we promote clean government, given the many excuses
for ‘dirty hands’ made by government leaders? This course
provides students with an introduction to debates over public
sector ethics, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of
public servants and their relationships to politicians and others
sharing public power. The unit uses practical examples and
case studies of ethical problems from across the public sector,
blending Australian and international material so that students
can learn from a variety of policy frameworks appropriate to
the regulation of public conduct. Students will examine core
theories of ethics with the aim of relating these to prevailing
theories of public policy and practices of public administration.
They will also examine various approaches to codifying and
enforcing public sector ethics.
POGO8024
Social Policy, Society and Change
This course focuses on the social policy experience in the majority
of countries, to introduce participants to the ideas and institutions
that shape social policy and the drivers for change. The course is
divided into four broad streams. The rst explores the purpose of
social policy, recognising that social policy operates within broad
community and social structures. The theories and philosophies
that underlie social policy will be examined within this stream. The
second stream asks what determines the nature of a country’s
social welfare system. For example, what is the inuence of different
institutional arrangements (such as federalism versus unitary states),
and of different cultural, historical or religious traditions? The third
stream identies the key actors involved in developing social policy
priorities and delivering services, exploring the relationship between
them. The fourth examines the drivers of change in social policy. It
investigates the circumstances under which social policy changes
(such as demographic shifts, economic or social crises, or regime
change) and the role NGOs and communities play in driving change.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
POGO8029
Health Policy in a Globalising World
Health presents a ubiquitous governance challenge. Governments
in both developed and developing economies are struggling
with health policy problems that are increasingly transboundary
in nature. Drawing on cutting edge research in policy studies,
political economy and governance, the course investigates the
tensions inherent in health policymaking in a globalising world.
The course is organised thematically around the transnational
processes of globalisation that interconnect health and health
policy in developed and developing countries; such as international
economic regulations, infectious and non-infectious diseases,
medical tourism, migration of health care resources, globalisation of
medical research. Sessions will tack between a macro-level focus
on political economy links between health policy processes and a
ner grained-focus on the particular challenges which exist within
health policy processes.
POGO8032
Comparative Public Sector Management
The course aims to introduce students to the main concepts and
theories of public management in a comparative and historical
context, concentrating on the development of modern public
administration in the developed democracies, particularly (but
not exclusively) those of the English-speaking world. Topics
covered include models of administration, bureaucracy and public
management, privatising the state, governance and networks,
institutions of accountability, public sector reform, public sector
performance, community engagement and e-government.
POGO8035
Research Project
This course introduces students to original research. Students
identify their own research questions and hypotheses, conduct
research, and complete a professional and/or academic research
paper. The completed papers are expected to make a contribution
to important policy debates and/or to the academic literature. Well-
written reports are recommended for publication in the Program’s
Discussion Paper series.
POGO8037
Writing Public Policy
This is a course about language and public policy. The primary
emphasis is on the role of communication in the policy process.
Writing Public Policy is intended to provide, at Masters level,
the necessary advanced analytical and communication skills
for public policy practitioners, and is aimed specically at those
who are required to engage in high-level written work for public
communication. Public policy is about solving problems affecting
people in society. Effective communication produces useful
information and also makes information intelligible in context.
Practitioners require analytical and communication skills of a
high order, and the aim of this course is to provide practical
experience and understanding of key aspects of public and
political communication, especially how to recognise and write
effective English. The course teaches public policy work through
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practice in discursive governance as a means of highlighting and
demonstrating the difculty and general untidiness of democratic
public policy processes. The broad area of public communication
as a distinct eld will be traversed, and students will work with
key texts with a view to understanding how and why they are
effective. Hands-on workshops will introduce students to a range
of analytical and critical skills, and students will be required to use
this knowledge in practical writing and critical exercises. This is not
a course about writing internal bureaucratic minutes and memos for
ministers, but rather with a focus on preparing public documents
for public consumption. It is not a course in ‘writing for the public
service’. What it does is seek to identify the role of communication
in public policy and policy advocacy, analyse the key elements of
communication and provide experience of the dynamics of public
policy discourse through simulated events of governance.
POGO8044
Global Social Policy
Social policy has long been shaped by the global ow of ideas, as
ideologies and models have been exchanged between countries;
exported by colonial powers to their colonies; or imposed by
external donors in the name of reconstruction or development. Yet,
social policy is often understood as the policies, processes and
services provided by governments, without sufcient consideration
of the global context. This course examines social policy in the
global context of the twenty-rst century. We will analyse the impact
of ideas, models and approaches developed within the international
arena on social policy within nations. We will also explore the
ways in which approaches to social policy are transferred and
shared between countries. We examine key international trends in
social policy and the values on which they are based – as well as
key critiques of, and opposition to, those trends. This course will
include some comparative analysis of the inuence and response
to globalised ideas, models and approaches across different
countries. Global Social Policy moves away from the traditional silos
of ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries, whereby social policy is
considered the domain of the former and development the domain
of the latter. Rather, we will examine key approaches to social policy,
evidence on ‘what works’, and major debates and controversies
across the constructs of the ‘Global North’ and the ‘Global South’.
POGO8045
International Policy Making in the Shadow of the Future
The Asia-Pacic region is changing rapidly as result of economic
development, political transitions, environmental challenges, and
shifting international alignments. In many ways, it is the most
dynamic region in the world. In this context, it is not enough for
policymakers and policy advocates to understand where the region
stands today. It is also vital for us to think deeply and systematically
about where the region is headed tomorrow - whether the question
is economic growth, political stability, or environmental quality -
even as we recognise that our ability to predict the future is limited.
This course will equip students to grapple with the challenge
of making policy in a rapidly changing region by introducing
them to a few key tools. It will introduce students to the study of
international relations, focusing on a select number of trends that
are recognised as particularly important drivers of international
change. In addition, it will introduce students to the concept and
practice of scenario development, a technique used widely in both
the private and the public sector as a means of understanding and
preparing for the future. Students will draw on both of these tools
to develop scenarios of the Asia-Pacic’s future, building on course
material and on their own expertise and research. By the end of
the course, students will be well-equipped to analyse international
developments in their areas of interest and to advocate new
policies based on their analysis.
POGO8046
China, India and Global Cooperation
The rise of China and India is reshaping both Asia and the world
more broadly. This course explores the implications of their rises
for global governance in a variety of arenas. It begins with a survey
of different theoretical perspectives on international cooperation. It
then considers how the rise of China and India is affecting global
cooperation in a series of key arenas, ranging from international
trade to arms control.
POGO8047
The Political Economy of Governance Reform in
Developing Countries
This course examines the contemporary governance debate in
developing countries through the lens of political economy analysis.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the analytical
and practical background needed to understand the challenge
of governance reform, by focusing on decisions, institutions and
social actors as determinants of the democratic governance
process. The course is organised in three sections. In section
one we review concepts of governance in the light of selected
regional experiences. Section two constitutes the analytical core
of the course. Approaching the debate through a demand and
supply framework of good governance, we hope to provide a
sound theoretical understanding for governance reform and policy
dynamics. Once these theoretical foundations are in place, section
three nally turns to selected issues of governance reform in the
context of developing nations as the basis for a critical evaluation
of the contemporary debate.
POGO8055
Case Studies in Public Sector Management
In this course students engage in detailed examination of a series
of case studies to focus on managerial dilemmas faced by public
managers. In doing this, students can draw on their practical
experience and prior studies to identify key issues and suggest
alternate means of addressing these challenges. This provides an
opportunity to link theory with practice to develop students’ skills in
undertaking analysis, problem-solving and providing advice. It also
provides an opportunity for students to critically reect on their own
experiences in the workplace, including considering how they go
about developing identifying and addressing dilemmas in different
contexts. A series of cases are selected to reect critical challenges
in managing in the public sector. This includes focusing on dening
and clarifying organisational mission and goals, the relationship
between public managers and their authorising environments, and
developing organisational capabilities. Such issues present very
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differently in different contexts, providing students with an excellent
opportunity to share experiences and learn from classmates. The
course revolves around interactive syndicate work, both related to
each case and also to the nal projects that students produce as
part of their assessment.
POGO8056
People and Performance in Public Organisations
This intensive course will consist of one brief introductory evening
session followed by ve full days. The course will provide students
with an opportunity to reect upon and improve their management
of people in public organisations. This course is based upon
the discipline of Organisational Behaviour (OB): the application
of psychological principles to helping individuals, teams and
organisations perform more effectively in the public sector. This
is not a course in Human Resource Management: We will be
adopting a more ‘bottom up’ approach focusing on people in
context rather than organisational systems and processes. The
primary focus of the course will be on using OB principles and
research for enhancing motivation and capability of individuals and
teams. Along the way we will consider topics including: motivating
people, using intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, building capability,
creativity, decision-making, stress, effective communication, conict
management and working in teams. The assessment will include
one conceptual essay and one personal learning project applied to
your own situation. This course has some conceptual overlap with
the course POGO8111 Public Sector Leadership and interested
students might consider doing both courses. The primary difference
is that this course focuses on motivation and capability, whereas
POGO8111 focuses on leadership, power and inuence.
POGO8057
Managing Government Finances
This course aims to give students a basis for considering the
environment in which public sector managers operate as this
bears on the management of public nancial resources. The
course steers between the methodologies of nancial decision-
making and analysis on the one hand and description and analysis
of the Australian government system on the other. To take this
course, students must have at least a basic understanding of
the institutional and broad behavioural aspects of the Australian
system of politics and government. While the course focuses
mainly on middle to senior public sector managers in the Australian
government system, its emphasis on principles and concepts of
government, government processes and public management
should broaden its appeal to students and public ofcials from
outside Australia. The course is a mandatory component of the
Australia and New Zealand School of Government’s Executive
Master of Public Administration degree, for those students who
enrol through ANU. The course investigates the role of government
agency managers in managing public nancial resources and the
political and administrative setting in which government nances
are managed.
POGO8062
Public Sector Management
The course takes a comparative and thematic approach
to issues in public sector management, and encourages
students to consider their relevance to their own countries
and workplaces. It features guest lectures by experienced
practitioners from Crawford’s adjunct faculty and leading
researchers from the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU
College of Arts and Social Sciences.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
POGO8072
Development Theories and Themes
An important feature of the last 200 years has been continual
argument about whether and to what extent development is
spontaneous or can be intended or planned. Such arguments
have come to the fore once again in connection with
globalisation. In particular, debate centres on the relationship
between globalisation and development, or what some would
call the relationship between globalisation and impoverishment
and underdevelopment. Using the idea of globalisation as a
starting point, this course introduces students to the most
inuential aspects of the long-lasting development debate.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
POGO8076
Corruption and Anti-corruption
The course is about the theory and practice of corruption,
and the design of agencies and campaigns to combat it. It is
designed and taught with the New South Wales Independent
Commission Against Corruption, the rst such agency created
in Australia. It draws on research done in Crawford School
on Corruption in the Pacic with the NGO Transparency
International. It also draws on research done by the ICAC on the
effectiveness of its prevention activities, and on anti-corruption
expertise within in the Federal government.
POGO8080
Organisational Finance and Budgeting
The course provides a user perspective on the role of nancial
reporting and analysis of organisations in a public sector
context and budgeting with such organisations. Through a
series of seminars, case studies and exercises, you will acquire
condence in using the concepts and vocabulary of accounting
and nance and an ability to analyse organisational performance
and resource allocation. You will become familiar with the format
and use of nancial statements and the role of accounting in
making decisions.
POGO8081
Economics for Government
This course seeks to enable participants to understand the
world views and toolboxes that economists bring to the study
of the economy and its role in human activity; to know how to
employ the work of economists when specialist knowledge and
techniques of this kind are called for in public administration and
policy; and to appreciate both the strengths and weaknesses
of this inuential discipline. Participants will develop an
understanding of the merits and limitations of economics in the
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collective domain and the ability to use positive (‘objective’) and
normative (‘subjective’) models to guide efcient and effective
government decision-making.
POGO8082
Political Institutions and Policy Processes
Public policy is a puzzling phenomenon. Why do governments
declare some social conditions to be problems that warrant
the commitment of scarce public resources? Why do different
governments address similar problems in very different ways?
And why are there often such big gaps between the stated
policy and the policy that is actually delivered to citizens?
Policy analysis is a multi-disciplinary social science endeavour
devoted to answering these and many other intriguing puzzles
that the daily experience of public policy throws up. This course
provides an introduction to policy analysis. It investigates the
institutions and processes by which public policy is made,
accounted for and evaluated. Political institutions include
formal elements of the constitution (such as the executive and
legislative branches of government and the electoral system),
together with less formal institutions (such as political parties).
We will present and utilise some of the main concepts and
models that scholars employ to describe, explain and evaluate
public policymaking. Students will apply these to policy practice
by discussing and analysing real-world examples.
POGO8083
Policy Advocacy
Policy Advocacy is a graduate course in policy communication,
requiring no specialist knowledge or experience of public policy
or administration. The course forms part of the ANU Master of
Public Policy degree but may be taken by students enrolled in
most other master degrees. The course examines strategies and
tactics used by policy advocates inside and outside government
when marshalling argument and evidence to promote their
preferred outcomes. The aim is not to train students in the arts
of policy advocacy but to strengthen students’ understanding
of the nature of advocacy and of the place of policy advocacy
in the policy process. The course materials draw on many
disciplines: history, literature, rhetoric, philosophy, as well as
the contemporary social sciences, including social psychology.
Examples include many Australian cases but the aim is more
general: to stimulate learning about the many ways that policy
advocacy shapes policy choice, especially in political systems
with open forms of deliberative democracy.
POGO8084
Principles of Social Policy
This course provides an introduction to the main principles of
social policy in a comparative context as a foundation for further
studies in the social policy area. It discusses the parameters
of social policy and how social policy intersects with aspects
of other government policies, such as labour policy, taxation
policy and health policy. It analyses various models of social
welfare provision and social protection as well as fundamental
policy issues such as the merits of targeting versus universality,
horizontal versus vertical equity, and rights-based versus
discretionary entitlements. The course then considers social
protection in the context of key groups of potential beneciaries,
including the unemployed, children and families, retirees and
indigenous peoples. Emphasis is on a comparative approach,
comparing Australian social policy with that in other OECD
countries and other countries in the Asia-Pacic region.
POGO8085
Implementing Social Policy
This course provides an introduction to the various issues
and problems associated with the efcient and effective
implementation of social policy. It discusses the role of
central and front-line agencies in implementing social policy
programs and the institutional separation of purchasers and
providers. It examines the increasing role played by private
sector organisations, both commercial and non-prot, and the
advantages and disadvantages of federal systems in delivering
social policy. The course looks at appeal procedures and
accountability regimes as well as the relative merits of legal and
administrative mechanisms of appeal. Practical examples of
particular programs are examined with the help of experienced
practitioners. Students have the opportunity to design their own
delivery mechanism for a social program.
POGO8090
Making and Evaluating Policy
Effective policy development depends on a good understanding
of how policy is made, because process inuences outcomes.
Who is involved in the decision-making process, those
people’s goals and objectives, and the institutional structures
within which they operate have inuenced policy outcomes
in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Policy
practitioners need to know what generally does and does not
work (and the reasons behind success or failure), and to have
an understanding of the impact of a particular policy on various
groups in society. The course aims to give students a good
theoretical and practical understanding of how policy is made
and the conceptual tools necessary to evaluate the impact of
particular policies and policy recommendations.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
POGO8095
Development Policy and Practice
The modern idea of development assumes that the process by
which it occurs is spontaneous as well as intended. This course
examines late twentieth and early twenty-rst century efforts
to make development happen, including reconstruction after
major and minor military conicts, decolonisation and national
independence movements, industrialisation and state building,
structural adjustment programs, globalisation, democratisation and
poverty reduction. The course examines the successes and failures
of a wide range of attempts to develop countries and peoples,
emphasising commonalities as well as important differences.
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POGO8096
Research Methods (6 units)
‘If you could learn only one thing in graduate school, it
should be how to do scholarly research’ (Gary King, Harvard
University). By teaching the fundamental logic and process
of empirical and interpretive research, and by giving some
essential methodological tools in both quantitative and
qualitative research, this course helps students assess
existing studies, identify their own research questions, develop
arguments, and formulate strategies to conduct research.
POGO8099
Community and Social Policy
When the Rudd Labor government was elected in November
2007, social inclusion became a government priority. Lying
behind government policy rhetoric about social inclusion is the
idea that individuals who are marginalised or excluded from the
mainstream need to be more connected to the community. The
idea that social networks (social capital) can help in the ght
against poverty and social exclusion is also being promoted by
major development institutions such as the World Bank. But
is social capital the answer? This course gives students the
opportunity to develop a critical understanding of one of the most
important concepts driving developments in social policy, both
in Australia and internationally. The course examines different
theoretical perspectives and critiques of those perspectives and
explores the ways in which the concept of social capital is being
applied through examples and case studies taken from a number
of countries in the Asia-Pacic region.
POGO8111
Public Sector Leadership
In this course we will explore the nature and conduct of
leadership in public sector organisations. We will explore a
range of different conceptual models of leadership such as trait,
contingency, transformational and leader substitute theories,
together with associated evidence regarding their effectiveness in
different situations. We will also examine the difference between
authority and leadership before exploring in depth one model
of shared leadership known as adaptive leadership. Adaptive
leadership denes leadership as the act of mobilising people
to tackle tough challenges and thrive. This approach thus
emphasises leadership as: a) a behaviour not a position, b) an
adaptive rather than technical challenge and c) inherently value
laden, and d) inherently emotionally challenging. While technical
challenges have known solutions, adaptive challenges require
changes in values, beliefs and attitudes and usually require
collaborative problem denition and resolution. The course will
consider such topics as diagnosing the situation, developing
sources of power, inuencing, building an adaptive culture and
personal self-regulatory skills involved in identifying one’s purpose
and engaging with others to bring about effective change.
Students will have an opportunity to explore their own practice in
the light of these topics through a mix of readings and experiential
activities designed to foster self-reection and practice. Students
will be encouraged to apply ideas from the course to their unique
personal, organisational and national contexts.
POGO8117
Program Management
The course aims to help participants to understand the specic
elements and tools of program management in development
practice and to be able to apply them in a critical fashion.
Participants will learn how to understand:
> the different tools available, their strengths and weaknesses,
the reasons for using them, and how they may be applied in
different circumstances
> the relationship between the different elements of aid
programming eg, inputs, outputs, outcomes, impact and
appropriate indicators for each
> how different perspectives in aid programming (including
gender, beneciary, administrator and donor) will inuence
program outcomes.
This course will take a comparative approach, looking at the
experiences in program management from the perspective
of different stakeholders such as multilateral organisations,
government, donors, contractors, non-government
organisations, and beneciaries. A key component is student
group work in working through the key issues above in
developing their own case study ‘project’.
(This is a Graduate Diploma level course)
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Alumni
Crawford School and ANU have an active alumni network
through which students can stay in touch with colleagues and
staff after their studies are completed.
Visit crawford.anu.edu.au/alumni
Childcare
There are four child care centres on campus. High demand
for places means you need to book early. There are also two
parenting rooms on campus.
Visit about.anu.edu.au/campus/children
Computer Laboratories
ANU has many computer laboratories on campus. These
include PC labs, Macintosh labs and Unix labs. Crawford
School has over 110 PCs in four computer labs. In addition,
wireless access is available throughout the School for students
with their own laptops.
Counselling Centre
The University Counselling Centre provides free, condential,
professional services to students dealing with personal
difculties that may adversely affect their academic studies.
Visit counselling.anu.edu.au
Disability Services Centre
The Disability Services Centre helps students with a disability
to achieve their academic goals by providing advice, support
and adjustments that minimise the impact of disability in the
university environment.
Visit anu.edu.au/disabilities
Health Service
The University Health Service offers primary health care for
students and staff. Australian students are currently bulk-billed
through Medicare. International students are covered by their
Overseas Student Health Cover.
Visit health.anu.edu.au/
Library Services
ANU has over two million volumes in nine libraries located across
the campus, complemented by a vast array of electronic services.
Visit anulib.anu.edu.au
Muslim Students Centre and Chaplains
ANU’s Muslim Students Centre is open to Muslim students 24
hours a day for prayers, meetings or quiet reection. In addition,
Crawford School has a prayer room and washing facilities. ANU
endorses a chaplaincy service provided by a team of chaplains
from the Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim
faith traditions. The service is staffed by women and men,
lay and clergy, from many linguistic, cultural and educational
backgrounds, mostly on a volunteer basis. ANU also has
two full-time chaplains, one representing the Roman Catholic
faith and the other representing the other major Christian
denominations.
Visit anu.edu.au/chaplaincy
Student Associations
Students can join a wide variety of sporting and social
associations. Crawford School has its own students’
association, while ANU supports the Postgraduate and
Research Students’ Association (PARSA), which focuses on the
welfare of graduate students at ANU. All graduate students are
members of PARSA.
Visit parsa.anu.edu.au
University Security
We take your personal security seriously. The ANU UniSafe
program aims to provide peace of mind to students and staff
who use the campus at any time of the day or night. UniSafe
escorts can walk you to your car or to another building on
campus, or you can catch the Safety Bus, which operates at
night and can drop you anywhere on campus. If you want to
report anything suspicious, use the emergency telephones
located around the campus, which will put you in direct contact
with our security staff.
Visit facilities.anu.edu.au/unisafe
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Other Facilities
Also located on campus are the following facilities:
> cafes, restaurants and bars
> Sport and Recreation Association
> galleries and arts centre
> University Co-operative Bookshop
> Commonwealth Bank
> Credit Union of Canberra
> STA Travel Service
> pharmacy
> dental clinic
> hairdresser
> optometrist
> Ticketek ticketing agency
> Unicycles bike shop
> small supermarket
> Union Shop (post ofce, newsagent, graduation attire,
merchandise, mini-mart)
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