Master of Arts (Transdisciplinary ) (8 units); Master of Arts (Transdisciplinary) (12 units) (MATSorMAT2) - MA(T)

This program is offered only to continuing students. No new admissions will be accepted. Students who are interested in this study area should contact us.

	Distance education*
Campus:	Toowoomba
Fees:	Tuition fee International fee

Footnotes
*	Some courses may be offered on-campus or online.

Contact us

Current students

Telephone 1800 007 252 (within Australia freecall), +61 7 4631 2285 (from outside Australia), email usqassist@usq.edu.au or submit a question via USQAssist.

Program aims

The Master of Arts (Transdisciplinary) is designed to allow individual students to construct their own program of studies to best suit their own particular needs, professional and industry requirements, and individual career paths. A transdisciplinary approach to problem solving relates to, or makes simultaneous use of, many disciplines to focus on a problem or issue to inform, provide guidance and reach solutions within a holistic framework.

On enrolment, each student will be expected to complete a pro forma sheet indicating clear objectives in choosing to study for the transdisciplinary award, the particular discipline mix within a career, professional and industry contexts and how the selected courses meets these requirements.

Program objectives

The Master of Arts (Transdisciplinary ) aims to:

facilitate the development and the consolidation of a body of knowledge whereby individual students essentially derive the specific objectives of the program of study to best suit their own particular needs, professional and industry requirements, and individual career paths
provide for maximum student choice in those courses selected that make up this particular award program
facilitate the development and consolidation of a body of knowledge, with a minimum of 50 per cent of courses comprising the program, forming a generic discipline group, selected from those normally offered as core or specialization courses in Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, or Visual and Performing Arts
focus student abilities on problem identification, problem solving, and problem brokering through participation in selected courses comprising a transdisciplinary program.

Program fees

Tuition fee

Domestic fee-paying places are funded entirely through the tuition/direct fees paid by the student. Tuition/direct fees vary depending on the courses that are taken. For more information about Tuition Fees, including the calculation of fees for a particular program of study, refer to USQ Fees.

International fees

International students pay tuition fees. For details about international student fees, refer to the International Fee Schedule provided by USQ International.

Program structure

Depending on admission eligibility as outlined above, students will need to complete either eight or 12 units of study usually comprising eight or 12 courses.

Students in an eight unit program will be required to complete postgraduate courses of which 50 per cent shall be selected from Arts based courses normally associated with that award ( Schedule A courses) and the remaining courses selected from any discipline of the student's choice ( Schedule B courses).

Students in a 12 unit program will be required to complete 12 postgraduate courses of which 50 per cent shall be selected from Arts based courses normally associated with that award (Schedule A courses) and the remaining courses selected from any discipline of the student's choice (Schedule B courses).

All students must complete half the unit weighting of the program in USQ courses, i.e. four units in an eight unit program and six units in a 12 unit program.

At least four courses in the program must be at USQ 8000 level or equivalent.

USQ offers the following EEA (Engineering Education Australia) courses: EEA502 Risk and Liability Management, EEA504 Project Management: People (Managing Self, Colleagues and Teams), EEA505 Project Management: Tools and Techniques and EEA506 Project Management: Procurement and Contracts.

Students should ensure they meet the enrolment requirements for the courses they choose. Enrolment requirements are contained in the course specification.

Schedule A Courses

Course	External	On-campus	Web
CMS5003 Chips with Everything: ICT Issues			S1
CMS5004 Television: Industry to Audience	S2
CMS5005 The Movie Brats: New Hollywood	S2
CMS5006 Force and Friendship: Models of Power	S1
CMS5007 Greenwash and Spin: Environmental Discourses	S2
CMS8010 Communication Research Methodology			S2
ECO5000 Economics for Managers	S2, S3	S2	S2, S3


MGT5000 Management and Organisational Behaviour #	S1, S3	S1	S1, S3
ECO8010 Corporate Environmental Management	S1		S1
ECO8011 Global Issues in Environmental Management	S2		S2
POL8013 Environmental Politics and Policy	S1		S1
PRL5000 Corporate Communication	S1	S1	S1
PRL5001	S2
PRL5002 Crisis Management	S2
PRL5020 Advanced Public Relations Strategies	S1	S1	S1
PUB5001 Introduction to Editing and Publishing	S1
PUB5002 Writing for Editors: Basic	S1
PUB5003 Editing Practice	S2
PUB5004 Writing for Editors: Advanced	S2

Footnotes
#	MGT5000 is strongly recommended as a pre-requisite for most MGT courses

Schedule B Courses

Course	External	On-campus	Web
ACC5502 Accounting for Managers	S1, S3	S1	S1, S3
ACC8104 Management Accounting for Sustainable Development	S2
CIS5001 Information Systems for Managers	S1, S2	S1, S2	S1, S2
CIS8004 Business Systems Planning and Implementation	S1, S2	S1, S2	S1, S2
CIS8008 Information Systems Decision Support	S1	S1	S1
CIS8009 Management of Business Data Communications and Telecommunications	S2	S2	S2
CIS8010 Information Systems Project Management	S2	S2	S2
CIS8011 Emerging Information Technologies	S2	S2	S2
CIS8017 Knowledge Management	S2	S2	S2
CIS8018 Information Security for Managers	S2	S2	S2
CIS8100 Global Information Systems Strategy	S1, S3	S1	S1, S3
CMS5003 Chips with Everything: ICT Issues			S1
CMS5004 Television: Industry to Audience	S2
CMS5005 The Movie Brats: New Hollywood	S2
CMS5006 Force and Friendship: Models of Power	S1
CMS5007 Greenwash and Spin: Environmental Discourses	S2
CMS8010 Communication Research Methodology			S2
ECE5001 Aesthetics in Early Childhood Arts	S1, S3
ECE5007 Developing Matters in Early Childhood Education ##	S1, S2
ECE8003 Families, Children and Change*	S2, S3
ECE8004 The Reflective Early Childhood Practitioner	S1, S3
ECE8006 Issues in Early Intervention	S2, S3
ECO5000 Economics for Managers	S2, S3	S2	S2, S3
EDU5211 Curriculum Leadership and Management	S2
EDU5212 Educational Evaluation	S1
EDU5471 Computer Based Resources in Education			S1
EDU5472 Computing in Education			S2
EDU8311 Concepts and Theories in Educational Management	S1
EDU8312 Educators as Leaders: Emerging Perspectives	S1
EDU8314 Human Resource Strategies for Innovation	S3
EDU8315 Managing Resources in the New Organisation	S2	S2
EDU8318 Organisational Transformation Through Learning	S2
EDU8319 Marketing Your Educational Organisation	S3
EDU8328 Consultation and Communication: Theory and Practice *	S1
EDU8332 Introduction to Educational Counselling	S1
EDU8333 Advanced Educational Counselling	S2
EDU8334 Conflict Management*	S2
EDU8415 Multi-Modal Texts and New Literacies			S1, S3
EEA502 Risk and Liability Management **	S1, S2, S3
EEA504 Project Management: People (Managing Self, Colleagues and Teams) **	S1, S2, S3
EEA505 Project Management: Tools and Techniques **	S1, S2, S3
EEA506 Project Management: Procurement and Contracts **	S1, S2, S3
ENG8001 Engineering and Surveying Research Methodology			S1, S2
ENG8101 Technological Impact and its Management	S1
ENG8103 Management of Technological Risk	S2
ENG8104 Asset Management in an Engineering Environment	S1



FET5201 Current Issues in Post-Compulsory Education and Training	S2, S3
FET5502 The Learning Organisation	S1
FET5600 Online and Distributed Learning #			S1, S3
FET5601 Instructional Design for Flexible Learning #			S1
FET5621 Introduction to Web Publishing			S1, S3
FET5622 Creating Interactive Multimedia			S2, S3
FET8601 Online Teaching: Strategies and Tactics			S1, S2
FET8602 Evaluating Innovative Educational Programs *			S1, S3
FET8603 Assessment: Principles and Practices *			S2
FET8605 Building Communities of Practice			S3
FET8606 Lifelong Career Development			S1, S3
FET8607 Contemporary Debates in Lifelong Learning			S3
FET8610 Creating Educational Web Environments			S1, S3
FET8640 Technology, Management and Organisational Development#			S1
FIN5411 The Planning Environment	S1
FIN5412 Financial Planning	S1
FIN5414 Managed Investments	S2
FIN5415 Superannuation and Retirement Planning	S1
FIN5416 Insurance Markets and Products	S2
FIN8101 Corporate Finance	S1, S3	S1, S3	S1, S3
FIN8102 Global Financial Markets	S1
FIN8103 Investment Management Strategies	S2
FIN8104 International Financial Management	S2	S2
FIN8107 Financial Risk Management	S3
KNL1001 Indigenous Cultural Identity	S2	S1
KNL1002 Torres Strait Islander Studies	S2	S1
KNL2001 Indigenous Knowledge and Australian Heritage	S1	S2
LAW5503 Australian Law and Business	S2		S2
LAW8106 Advanced Corporate Law	S1
LAW8114 Intellectual Property Law****	S2
LAW8118 International Business Law	S3	S3
LAW8120 Dispute Resolution	S2
LAW8220 Goods and Services Tax	S1
LAW8301 e-Commerce Law	S1		S1
LIN5000 The Nature of Language	S1, S3	S1	S2
LIN8001 Principles of Second Language Learning	S1	S1	S2
LIN8005 Discourse Analysis	S1	S1
LIN8006 Computer-Assisted Language Learning	S1
LIN8009 Immersion Language Teaching	S2, S3	S2
LIN8015 Introduction to Sociolinguistics	S1, S2	S2
MGT5000 Management and Organisational Behaviour ***	S1, S3	S1	S1, S3
FIN5003 Decision Support Tools	S1, S3	S1	S1, S3
MGT8002 Strategic Management	S2, S3	S3	S2, S3
MGT8003 Supply Chain Management	S2		S2
MGT8004 Corporate Information Management	S2	S2	S2
MGT8005 Supply Chain Network Design	S2		S2
ECO8010 Corporate Environmental Management	S1		S1
ECO8011 Global Issues in Environmental Management	S2		S2
ECO8012 Tools and Techniques for Sustainable Development	S2		S2
MGT8013	S1		S1
MGT8014 Human Factors	S2		S2
MGT8015 Corporate Occupational Health and Safety	S1		S1
MGT8016 Occupational Health and Occupational Hygiene	S2		S2
MGT8017 Safety Science in Practice	S1		S1
MGT8021 Integrated Logistics Management	S1		S1
MGT8022 Project Management Framework	S1, S3		S1, S3
MGT8024 Project Quality, Risk and Procurement Management	S2		S2
MGT8025 Project Scope, Time and Cost Management	S1		S1
MGT8027 Project Human Resources, Communications and Integration Management	S2		S2
MGT8030 Performance Management and People Development	S1		S1
MGT8033 Leading Organisational Change	S1		S1
MGT8034 Strategic Management of Human Resources and Innovation	S2		S2
MGT8035 Management Consulting	S2		S2
MGT8037 Team Leadership	S2		S2
MGT8038 Leadership Development	S1		S1
MGT8039 Strategic Leadership	S2		S2
MGT8040 Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity	S3		S3
ECO8060 Business in the International Economy	S1	S1	S1
MKT5000 Marketing Management	S2, S3	S2	S2, S3
MKT8001 Buyer Behaviour	S1		S1
MKT8002 International Marketing and Management	S1	S3	S1
MKT8003 Services Marketing Management	S2		S2
MKT8009 Integrated Marketing Communication	S2	S2	S2
PRL5000 Corporate Communication	S1	S1	S1
PRL5001	S2
PRL5002 Crisis Management	S2
PRL5020 Advanced Public Relations Strategies	S1	S1	S1
PSY1010 Foundation Psychology A	S1, S3	S1
PSY1020 Foundation Psychology B	S2, S3	S2
PSY3120 History and Systems of Psychology	S3
PSY3730 Industrial and Organisational Psychology	S1	S1
PUB5001 Introduction to Editing and Publishing	S1
PUB5002 Writing for Editors: Basic	S1
PUB5003 Editing Practice	S2
PUB5004 Writing for Editors: Advanced	S2

Footnotes
##	It is recommended that learners have previously studied in Education e.g. Degree
*	Successful completion of this course requires experience in educational settings e.g. primary/secondary schools.
**	Course validated by Deakin University (FEE-HELP not offered).
#	It is recommended that learners must have knowledge of or access to an education/training environment in order to address the requirements of assessment in this course
****	offered in odd-numbered years only
***	MGT5000 is strongly recommended as a pre-requisite for most MGT courses

NOTE: EEA courses are not subject to FEE-HELP.

Required time limits

Students have a maximum of 5 years to complete this program.

Exit points

Students who have completed a minimum of four units in the appropriate courses, and who do not choose to proceed to completion of the Master of Arts (Transdisciplinary) award, may exit with either aGraduate Certificate in Professional Communication, aGraduate Certificate in Corporate Communication or the Postgraduate Certificate of Professional Studies (Transdisciplinary).

Exemptions

Exemption will be granted for relevant tertiary studies successfully completed in the last five years and may be granted for studies successfully completed in the last ten years. Such studies would need to have been offered by an institution recognised by the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) or by an institution adjudged as equivalent, providing that the maximum exemption is 50 per cent of the award program, i.e. four units in the eight unit program and six units in the 12 unit program. Transfer of credit from other incomplete USQ award programs may be permitted where there is similar or appropriate content.

Recommended enrolment pattern

There is no recommended enrolment pattern.

Students should select the courses of study to best suit their own particular needs, professional and industry requirements, and individual career paths in accordance with course availability and enrolment requirements (refer to individual course specifications for details). However, students should note that 50 per cent of the courses shall be Arts based courses normally associated with an Arts award ( Schedule A courses as listed in Program Structure) and the remaining courses selected from any discipline of the student's choice (Schedule B courses as listed in Program Structure).