Major type

Postgraduate

Description

The Business and Security major provides students with knowledge and skills that will help them understand and respond to contemporary and future security challenges faced by business, industry and commerce. Considering both traditional and emerging security issues, students will learn to identify, plan for, and mitigate a range of threats relevant to business management and operations. Units address issues such as security planning and risk management, business continuity and emergency management, corporate liability, fraud and corruption. Students will have the opportunity to undertake detailed study of the regional security context of Asia and the Pacific as well as key security issues such as terrorism, infectious diseases, and environmental degradation.

Please Note.

The Master of Business program, including this major, is only available to continuing students and will except no new enrolments from Semester 2, 2008.

Requirements for the major

For a Business and Security major, students must complete four units of study (24 credit points), comprising:

1. one compulsory unit of study (six credit points):
• CISS6003 Business and Security
2. three elective units of study (18 credit points) selected from the following:
• CISS6001 New Security Challenges
• CISS6002 Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific
• CISS6004 Disease and Security
• CISS6005 Ethics, Law and War
• CISS6006 Statebuilding in Fragile States *
• CISS6007 Terrorism in the Asia-Pacific Region
• CISS6008 Population and Security
• CISS6009 Research Essay 1
• CISS6011 Special Topic in International Security
• CISS6012 Civil-Military Relations (New unit for 2009)
• CISS6013 Middle East Conflict and Security (New unit for 2009)
• GOVT6119 International Security #
• IBUS6003 Managing International Risk

Please Note:

1. Units of study marked with an "*" will NOT be available for 2009 enrolments. .
2. # These units are offered by the Department of Government and International Relations in the Faculty of Arts.

Availability of this major

This version of this major is available under the Master of Business only.

• Master of Business (Continuing students only) (FC047)