Master of Disaster Risk Management and Development Level 9
Master of Disaster Risk Management and Development Level 9
Gain the skills to tackle increasingly complex disaster risks, both now and in the future, and research a topic of your interest.
Develop advanced disaster risk management knowledge and skills to reduce disaster risks, build community resilience, and manage disaster response and recovery.
The Master of Disaster Risk Management and Development aligns with global and national best practice, and is ideal if you’re passionate about sustainable development, community resilience or humanitarian response. It’s also a good fit if you’re already working in the field and need a tertiary-level qualification.
Modules
All courses are offered via flexible learning, which involves block course on campus and online, or blended learning.
Complete 60 points from
- EMGT808 Disasters and Development (15 points, Semester 1)
- EMGT807 Environmental Change and Humanitarian Action (15 points, Semester 2)
- EMGT809 Building Community Resilience (15 points, Semester 2)
- HEAL811 Integrative Research (15 points, Semester 1 or 2)
And choose one of the following
Option A
Complete either a practice project or dissertation (60 points)
- HEAL997 Practice Project (60 points), or
- HEAL901 Dissertation (60 points)
And 60 points from
- COMH805 Trauma Informed Practice and Psychosocial Interventions (15 points, Semester 1)
- EMGT806 Communications in Emergency and Disaster (15 points, Semester 1)
- ENSE881 Digital Transformation and Change Management (15 points)
- GEOL801 Environment, Hazards and Society (15 points)
- ENVS801 Application of Geographic Information Systems (15 points, Semester 1)
- HEAL803 Special Topic (30 points, Semester 1 or 2)
- HEAL816 Special Topic (15 points, Semester 1 or 2)
- HEAL817 Leadership and Management I (15 points)
- MAOH801 Māori Health Research Practice – Te Rangahau Hauora Māori (15 points, Semester 1 or 2)
- PACS881 Pacific Epistemologies and Research Methodologies (15 points)
- PUBH801 Principles of Public Health (15 points, Semester 1)
- PUBH802 Public Health Programme Management (15 points, Semester 2)
- PUBH803 Global Health (15 points, Semester 2 – Not offered in Semester 2, 2021)
- PUBH804 Public Health Policy and Systems (15 points, Semester 1)
Option B
Complete a thesis
- HEAL998 Thesis (90 points)
And 30 points from
- COMH805 Trauma Informed Practice and Psychosocial Interventions (15 points, Semester 1)
- EMGT806 Communications in Emergency and Disaster (15 points, Semester 1)
- ENSE881 Digital Transformation and Change Management (15 points)
- GEOL801 Environment, Hazards and Society (15 points)
- ENVS801 Application of Geographic Information Systems (15 points, Semester 1)
- HEAL803 Special Topic (30 points, Semester 1 or 2)
- HEAL816 Special Topic (15 points, Semester 1 or 2)
- HEAL817 Leadership and Management I (15 points)
- MAOH801 Māori Health Research Practice – Te Rangahau Hauora Māori (15 points, Semester 1 or 2)
- PACS881 Pacific Epistemologies and Research Methodologies (15 points)
- PUBH801 Principles of Public Health (15 points, Semester 1)
- PUBH802 Public Health Programme Management (15 points, Semester 2)
- PUBH803 Global Health (15 points, Semester 2)
- PUBH804 Public Health Policy and Systems (15 points, Semester 1)
Other relevant optional courses may be available, with the approval of the programme leader. Optional courses may be selected from other relevant subject areas.
Career Outcomes
Develop advanced disaster risk management knowledge and skills to reduce disaster risks, build community resilience, and manage disaster response and recovery.
What will I learn?
A graduate of the Master of Disaster Risk Management and Development will:
a) Demonstrate an integrated scientific understanding of disaster risk, and its implications for sustainable development in New Zealand as well as regionally and globally. (Knowledge & Understanding; Skills & Application)
b) Demonstrate critical awareness of political, ethical and cultural issues embedded in New Zealand (Te Tiriti o Waitangi in particular) and international contexts in identifying relevant disaster risk management and development interventions, humanitarian action, including in the aftermath of disaster. (Ethical & Professional Dispositions, Communication)
c) Identify creative strategies that foster local communities’ participation in disaster risk management, as well as advance public health and sustainable development. (Knowledge & Understanding; Skills & Application; Inquiry, Research & Creativity; Personal & Intellectual Autonomy)
d) Demonstrate knowledge and critical thinking in the development, applications and evaluation of disaster risk management and development practices. (Inquiry, Research & Creativity; Personal & Intellectual Autonomy)
e) Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills to assess and analyse disaster risk and resilience and development trends and patterns, as well as conditions of environmental endangerment and socioeconomic vulnerability. (Knowledge & Understanding; Skills & Application)
f) Demonstrate advanced critical thinking, decision-making and leadership skills in disaster risk management and humanitarian action that are aligned with national risk and resilience policies, as well as global frameworks and agendas. (Knowledge & Understanding; Skills & Application; Inquiry, Research & Creativity; Personal & Intellectual
Autonomy)
g) Demonstrate advanced skills in academic writing and other forms of scholarly communication for disaster risk management and development. (Communication; Personal & Intellectual Autonomy)
h) Demonstrate advanced ability to be a critical user of evidence to lead disaster risk management and development policy, practice, research and decision-making processes. (Inquiry, Research & Creativity; Communication; Personal & Intellectual Autonomy)
i) Demonstrate advanced capabilities in the strategic integration of information from diverse data sources to inform disaster risk management and development and resilience planning and action. (Skills & Application; Communication; Inquiry, Research & Creativity; Personal & Intellectual Autonomy)
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<li>Are under the age of 20 years; and</li>
<li>Are a citizen or permanent resident of New Zealand or Australia; and</li>
<li>Don’t meet the University Entrance standard; and</li>
<li>Have received secondary schooling to at least New Zealand Year 12 level (or its equivalent overseas) and completed NCEA Level 2 endorsed with Merit or better. This should include at least 14 credits in each of 4 NCEA Level 2 subjects, at least 3 of which must be on the approved subject list; and</li>
<li>Meet the UE literacy and numeracy standards, or their equivalents; and</li>
<li>Have not completed Year 13 at a New Zealand secondary school; or</li><br>
<li>Applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applicants must also be selected into the programme for which they have applied.</li><br>
<p>*waived for Year 13 students at a New Zealand secondary school in 2020, due to the impact of COVID-19.</p><br>
<p>Cost of applying for Discretionary Entrance There is a non-refundable assessment fee of $50.00.</p><br>
<h4>Minimum entry requirements</h4>
<p>Completed one of the following; or equivalent:</p>
<li>Bachelor’s degree with a B grade or higher in courses at a level 7 or equivalent </li>
<li>In exceptional circumstances an applicant who does not meet the requirements above, but who has an appropriate combination of academic and professional experience, may be considered for admission</li>
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<b>IELTS Academic</b>
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<li>6.5 overall with no band less than 6.0</li></ul><br>
<p>Other recognized English language requirements</p>
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