Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2021-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2021-ONGOING

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in a graduate-level course.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Communicate the International and Australian regulatory frameworks in which biosecurity operates, in a range of formats;

2.

Illustrate the environmental, economic and social drivers behind biosecurity to different audiences using appropriate examples;

3.

Critique the roles of community, industry and government and their shared responsibility for biosecurity;

4.

Use case studies to articulate typical activities that occur at different stages of the biosecurity continuum.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

The broad aims of this unit are: 1. To introduce biosecurity in the context of International Obligations for the protection of plant, animal (including marine/aquatic) and human health; 2. To provide information on the Australian biosecurity system and the biosecurity continuum – pre-border, border and post-border; 3. To develop an understanding of the multidisciplinary activities that underpin biosecurity; 4. To develop knowledge of the impact that biosecurity has at all levels, from Government and Industry through to the individual.

Other notes:

This unit will be taught in intensive mode.