The Master of Applied Cybernetics is a 1 year full-time degree that provides students with:

• Advanced skills in managing cybernetic systems, from critical thinking and questioning to understanding how technology relates to regulatory environments. 
• A solid understanding of the machine and human components of cybernetic systems (including cyber-physical systems), including their historical context. 
• The intellectual framework for the management of complex, integrated systems within a social and environmental context. 
• The opportunity to undertake cybernetics-related research and work experience of professional relevance.

 

Career Options

ANU ranks among the world's very finest universities. Our nearly 100,000 alumni include political, business, government, and academic leaders around the world.

 

We have graduated remarkable people from every part of our continent, our region and all walks of life.

 

Learning Outcomes

1. Select, adapt, apply, and communicate advanced methods and applied cybernetics techniques for analysing cybernetic systems;
2. Apply knowledge and analysis of cybernetic systems to decision-making in a broad range of contexts, including: policy, business, community organisations, academia and service delivery;
3. Examine current issues in cybernetic systems from design to decommissioning using leading-edge research and design practices;
4. Demonstrate advanced cognitive, technical, and communication skills to work independently and collaboratively to collect, process, interpret and communicate the outcomes of challenges and opportunities associated with cybernetic systems; and
5. Communicate outcomes of cybernetic systems research and practice to diverse audiences.