The Dispute Resolution program at UTS, a first in Australia, focuses on the wide range of non-adversarial dispute resolution processes. The mixture of experience-based learning and formal lectures demonstrates the UTS commitment to excellence in teaching, research, development and training.
This course offers students a cross-disciplinary graduate degree providing the theory, skills and practice of dispute resolution. Experienced practitioners assist students to build practitioner skills and gain an enriched theoretical understanding of the alternative dispute resolution process.
Career options include administrator, arbitrator, manager, negotiator or a professional in a wide range of areas such as government, health and education, and industrial relations.
Graduate Certificate candidates may internally transfer to the Master of Dispute Resolution (C04145). Candidates are not awarded the Graduate Certificate, rather subjects undertaken within the Graduate Certificate are applied towards the Master's.
Applicants require a Bachelor's degree. Applicants who have not gained the requisite tertiary qualification may be provisionally admitted into the Graduate Certificate program if they can provide evidence of equivalent work experience and the ability to undertake projects at an advanced level.
The Graduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution can be completed in a minimum of one semester of full-time study, or one year of part-time study. The core introductory subject is offered in intensive block mode over several days of attendance at the beginning of semester. The options are taught in intensive block mode over several full days of lectures, workshops and seminars.
The course requires completion of a core introductory subject (6 credit points) plus a further three subjects (18 credit points).
Subjects are regularly timetabled but not all subjects listed will be offered in any one semester. Timetabled subjects are offered subject to sufficient student interest. The current timetable can be found at:
79771 Dispute Resolution (PG) | 6cp | |
Select 18 credit points from the following options: | 18cp | |
77746 Advanced Mediation | 6cp | |
77752 Commercial Arbitration (Domestic) | 6cp | |
77765 Resolution Strategies for the Litigated Case | 6cp | |
77792 Crisis Negotiation | 6cp | |
77761 Dispute Resolution in Commerce | 6cp | |
77760 Family Dispute Resolution | 6cp | |
77762 Industrial Dispute Resolution | 6cp | |
77751 International Commercial Arbitration | 6cp | |
77745 Negotiation | 6cp | |
77740 Research Paper | 6cp | |
77867 Workplace Dispute Resolution | 6cp | |
77783 International Commercial Dispute Resolution | 6cp | |
77850 Psychology and Dispute Resolution | 6cp | |
78012 Managing the Resolution of Public Arena Disputes | 6cp | |
78022 Restorative Justice Processes | 6cp | |
78027 Organisational Conflict Resolution | 6cp | |
78029 Mediation Practice | 6cp | |
Total | 24cp |
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