Graduate Certificate in Corruption and Integrity Management

What is this course about?

The Graduate Certificate in Corruption and Integrity Management is designed to meet the educational needs of people seeking a greater understanding of the importance of anti-corruption and corruption oversight strategies within public and private sector organisations.

This course is designed to professionalise the integrity sector by providing students with specialised knowledge of integrity systems and the environment in which they operate, including a theoretical and practical foundation that instils in graduates best practice approaches to corruption prevention.

This course is suitable for those with careers in law enforcement, police service internal affairs, domestic and international integrity assurance and anti-corruption agencies, and any organisation or agency which has an integrity or anti-corruption unit.

The program has been designed to fill the gap between ethics and police / legal studies and students will complete three subjects, including an elective.

The three core subjects will be completed over two sessions, providing specialised knowledge of corruption prevention systems and the environment in which they operate.

The program will be delivered through distance education utilising e-learning support, including online tuition, feedback, forums, assignment submission and access to resources.

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

• recognise and describe the ethical frameworks applicable to the delivery of public service
• analyse the impact of corruption on public value and benefit, whilst identifying the key challenges in promoting and administering ethics and integrity within the public sector
• demonstrate an understanding of corruption and misconduct from both a comparative / historical and domestic / international context
• apply theoretical perspectives to the understanding of why corruption and misconduct can arise
• apply and evaluate different approaches for addressing integrity assurance and corruption prevention
• strategise on how to build resilience within an anti-corruption or integrity assurance work environment
• understand and apply management strategies to corruption and integrity issues.

Academic expectations

For each 8 point subject at CSU, students should normally expect to spend between 140-160 hours engaged in the specified learning and assessment activities (such as attending lectures or residential schools, assigned readings, tutorial assistance, individual or group research/study, forum activity, workplace learning, assignments or examinations). The student workload for some subjects may vary from these norms as a result of approved course design.

Students will be assessed on the basis of completed assignments, examinations, workplace learning, or other methods as outlined in specific subject outlines.

Where applicable, students are responsible for travel and accommodation costs involved in workplace learning experiences, or attending residential schools (distance education students).

Expectations relating to academic, workplace learning, time and cost requirements for specific subjects are provided in the subject abstracts and in course materials.