Program learning outcomes

On successful completion of the program students will have:

• A strong capacity for collecting, monitoring and critically reviewing evidence to inform health service practice and program delivery
• An advanced capacity to demonstrate and apply specific theoretical and empirical expertise in areas of policy analysis to the economic problems facing developing economies
• Interpret, justify and communicate development and social change projects, and apply critical thinking and reasoning to social change and development issues
• Solve a range of social change and development problems using an evidence-based approach by investigating, analysing and synthesising complex information and available resources
• The ability to apply a range of health theories to identify and plan for the health needs of the community or specific at risk groups
• The ability to identify and assess social, behavioural and environmental factors affecting health and illness
• The ability to develop effective and efficient approaches to health services and programs
• The ability to evaluate and improve health services, using appropriate research methods
• Apply advanced knowledge and skills in writing about competing development paradigms and their associated problems and issues
• Apply advanced critical thinking and reasoning to demonstrate advanced understanding of recent development projects oriented towards social change
• Apply critical thinking and reasoning to demonstrate advanced understanding of social change and development, and apply theories of organisational leadership to building the capacity of organisations
• Design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise social change and development projects both autonomously and as part of a team