Faculty of Arts
Professor Joan Beaumont
The Faculty of Arts offers an exciting range of programs across the humanities and social sciences, communication and media, and the disciplines of the creative industries.
The goal of Deakin Arts is to prepare students for today’s world by widening their intellectual horizons and making them multi-skilled. The unique and very broad mix of disciplines offered by the Faculty makes the experience t Deakin intellectually stimulating, yet highly relevant to the future work force.
Through your Arts degree you will gain essential, transferable skills; in research analysis, lateral thinking, writing and communication. You will also develop knowledge specific to the disciplines of your choice, while you enhance your internet skills through online learning.
Our programs aim to:
- Develop graduate who are multi-skilled, flexible, entrepreneurial, and self motivated;
- Provide students with opportunities to gain relevant professional practice through work placements and internships;
- Reflect the changes that are occurring in professional life and the workplace as a result of globalization, technological change and the convergence of media; and
- Create graduates who are active global citizens, understanding the social, political, cultural and economic forces that are transforming the world.
The work force on the 21st century is global. It is Arts disciplines that provide the understanding and cultural sensitivity that are necessary to be competitive and to be relevant, nationally and internationally. And it is Arts disciplines that provide a foundation for life long, flexible and independent learning.
So welcome to the Faculty of Arts! I am sure you will enjoy your studies and come to realise for yourself, that an Arts degree really does make a difference.
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Faculty of Business & Law
Professor Philip Clarke
 Welcome
to Deakin's Faculty of Business and Law.
In this Handbook you will find information about the structure of our courses and the units we offer in the areas of business and law. Please use this Handbook as a guide when planning your studies.
Our students are located on four campuses—Melbourne campuses at Burwood and Toorak, Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds and Warrnambool Campus. Our students have the option of studying full-time or part-time on campus or by distance in Australia or overseas.
The Faculty has five Schools—the Deakin Business School, responsible for postgraduate courses in business; and the Schools of Accounting, Economics and Finance; Information Systems; Law and the Bowater School of Management and Marketing.
Our Faculty is committed to extending the boundaries of business and legal education and to conducting research in these areas. We achieve this through close relationships with professional associations, other universities and teaching institutions, business, employers and government—across Australia and internationally. My colleagues and I look forward to meeting you at Deakin in 2007.
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Faculty of Education
Professor Shirley Grundy
 The Faculty of Education at Deakin University aims to produce critically reflective professionals who, recognising the diversity of learners and the inherent worth of each and every student, are committed to creating quality learning environments and experiences, producing worthwhile knowledge and sustaining education as a public good. To achieve this aim the Faculty of Education explores and promotes teaching and learning across all phases of formal education and training as well as through community-based and workplace learning. The Faculty offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs in primary and secondary teaching as well as professional, adult, workplace and vocational education and training.
The Faculty is committed to flexible delivery and to the active engagement of students in constructing their learning experiences. On-campus courses are offered at Melbourne Campus at Burwood, Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds and Warrnambool Campus. Off-campus courses and doctoral studies are offered Australia wide and are available internationally. The Faculty also offers professional development programs for teachers. The Faculty utilises information and communication technologies such as online learning and web-based delivery to provide innovative and relevant programs for all students—undergraduate as well as postgraduate.
The Faculty has a strong international reputation for the quality of its research and scholarship and in a recent commonwealth report on the impact of educational research, it ranked within the top three Australian Universities across the range of performance measures relating to educational research.
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Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences
Professor John Catford
 The Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences is recognised internationally for its contribution to the health field in teaching, training, research and service. This has enabled us to assist governments, communities and organisations in advancing health and social policies and programmes. Our strategic intent is to achieve the Deakin mission and core commitments through improving health and well being, and by strengthening the health and human services sectors in Australia and internationally.
The Faculty currently comprises the Schools of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Health and Social Development, Nursing, and Psychology. In April 2006 the Prime Minister announced that Deakin would host Victoria’s third medical school with a special focus on regional and rural health needs. This new school is currently being set up and will take its first graduate-entry students in 2008. We also host the Metabolic Research Unit in Geelong and the University Department of Rural Health in Warnambool. The Faculty has been designated an official World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention and Related Research and Training, and manages the International Cochrane Collaboration for Health Promotion and Public Health.
We are already acknowledged by industry to be strong achievers and contributors in nutrition, dietetics, exercise science, sports coaching, obesity prevention, public health, health promotion, social exclusion and disability, general nursing, ageing nursing, peri-operative nursing, critical care nursing, health psychology, clinical psychology, and forensic psychology.
Over the next three years we will expand and enhance our sound platforms in community nutrition, food science, bio-health sciences, occupational science and therapy, social work, midwifery, organisational psychology, rural and regional health, behavioural and social epidemiology, chronic disease prevention and community wellness.
In addition to graduate medicine and advanced rural medicine, we also plan to enter new areas of graduate physiotherapy, nurse practitioner practice, primary care nursing, graduate dietetics, rehabilitation science, global and international health, and applied management and leadership.
The Faculty has a number of key research strengths, including biotechnology, physical activity, nutrition, social exclusion, health inequalities, mental health, risk behaviours, ageing, and chronic illness prevention and management. Schools and individual staff of the Faculty work collaboratively with a wide number of external organisations. These include Federal and State governments, schools, hospitals, health centres, Non Government Organisations such as the Heart Foundation, community groups, international bodies such as World Health Organisation, commercial companies, and other universities at home and overseas. We also have a number of highly productive partnerships across the sector, which commonly include joint appointments at professorial level.
All these activities reflect a broad range of interests and expertise. They demonstrate the Faculty's strong and vibrant commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of all people in Australia and our surrounding region. We are well on course to be known as Australia’s ‘Can Do’ Health Builder.
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Faculty of Science & Technology
Professor Andrew Flitman
 Welcome to the Faculty of Science and Technology. We offer a diverse and stimulating range of courses in Architecture and Building, Life and Environmental Sciences, Engineering and IT, that share the common aim of inspiring our students to achieve their full potential. Our strong links to industry and the professions ensure that our courses reflect the latest developments and equip our graduates with the skills and expertise to move into challenging and rewarding careers.
Whilst providing the opportunity for study in vibrant metropolitan Melbourne, we also contribute to the University’s goals in enriching educational and cultural experiences in and around our regional campuses in Geelong and Warrnambool. Many of the Faculty’s research and teaching staff are actively engaged in community projects that provide benefits to our students and our community.
Students benefit from close interaction with Faculty research staff at the forefront in their field, many providing international leadership in areas as diverse as sustainable aquaculture, light metals engineering, cellular and molecular biology, IT security and sustainable building design.
Individual learning preferences and needs are catered for through a range of flexible learning options including on-line studies and friendly, responsive teaching staff will make your Deakin experience a memorable one.
Faculty Vision
We aim to be recognised internationally as a progressive Faculty working in distinctive multi disciplinary teams to achieve excellence.
We will inspire our students, staff and partners to achieve their full potential, engage in the challenges facing our global community and stimulate imaginative solutions for a sustainable future.
FaST - Inspire, engage, stimulate.
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