Graduate Certificate in Organisational Learning

Admission requirements

Applicants must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution and have not less than two years relevant work experience. However, the Dean (Education) may, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature.

Course aims

The course aims to:

provide a comprehensive body of theory and practice to students wishing to attain competencies in developing and leading organisations to achieve their strategic goals and missions
enable students to develop a critical awareness of organisations as knowledge and learning systems.

Learning outcomes

After completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:

critically evaluate and discuss different models of organisational knowledge and learning
demonstrate an appreciation in the complexity of organisations as knowledge and learning systems
design and present interventions to improve learning and knowledge sharing capacity in their organisations.

Credit

Limited credit may be granted for recognition of prior studies undertaken at the University or other approved tertiary institutions. Further information is available on this page.

Program of study

To qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Organisational Learning, a student must complete 18 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic. Students are required to complete two compulsory topics, and one or two of the specified option topics.

Core - Year 1 topics

9 units comprising:

EDUC9605 Leading Knowledge Management for Organisational Learning (4.5 units)
POAD9028 Evaluation Methods (4.5 units) OR

Option - Year 1 topics

Plus 9 units of topics from the following list:

EDUC8602  Leaders and Leadership (4.5 units)
EDUC9606   Planning Change in Organisations (4.5 units)
EDUC9610 Developing People in Organisations (4.5 units)
EDUC9611  Managing Innovation in Organisations (4.5 units)
EDUC9617 Educational Governance (4.5 units)
EDUC8618   Pedagogical Leadership (4.5 units)
EDUC9630 Leading and managing professional learning for integrated languages and literacy programs (4.5 units)
EDUC9631 Perspectives on leading professional learning for integrated languages curricula (4.5 units)
POAD9133  Critical Systems Thinking and Practice (4.5 units)

Every effort has been made to ensure the information published on the Course Rule pages is accurate at the time of publication. Flinders University reserves the right to amend its curriculum without prior notice, and will update the Course Rules to reflect any amendments at the earliest opportunity.