Online Graduate Certificate in Emerging Technologies and Law

You will also have access to discussion boards, online forums, electronic assignment submission, the library and business journals.

Assessment is ongoing throughout the teaching period and is entirely project based, so students graduate with an employer ready portfolio. 

The driving force behind our program is the industry connections you’ll make while studying.  Learn from renowned academics and industry leaders, including Hall & Wilcox and Atticus.

Our courses use authentic tools and templates, refer to best-practice and industry standards, and contain real-world case studies, examples and problems. When you graduate, not only will you be ready for the next step in your career, but you will have already been applying your new knowledge in your workplace.

• 1 year part-time, 10 weeks per course, 12 hours per week.

This program will equip you with analytical skills to assess the capabilities and limitations of the latest emerging technologies and determine the ways they intersect with current law and policy. Understand the privacy implications around the ways data is collected, stored, used and shared. Learn the skills and knowledge to provide guidance, create legal frameworks, and give recommendations for policy formation to manage and adopt emerging technologies, knowledge transferrable to between legal and policy contexts. Assess new technologies in order to develop new tools and process to drive innovation within a business or organisation.

The program courses include:

Core courses

• Law and Policy for Emerging Technologies
• Data and Privacy in the Digital Age
• Legal Innovation Practice
• Developing Blockchain Strategy + Cyber Security Risk and Governance
  
  OR
• Developing AI Strategy + Cyber Security Risk and Governance 

For more information about these courses, download our program brochure.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this program, you will be able to: 

1. Provide advice and/or recommendations for policy formation by analysing the limitations, capabilities and the ways emerging technologies interact with society, current law, regulation, and policy frameworks.
2. Discuss the ways emerging technologies intersect with and affect society, the law, regulation, and policy frameworks with various audiences.
3. Formulate policies and legal frameworks for adopting or managing emerging technologies that are logical, ethical, sustainable, socially responsible, and comply with relevant legislation and regulations.
4. Devise recommendations for data security, access, sharing and storage policies and frameworks that consider key principles of Australian and international privacy law.
5. Utilise tools and approaches developed from continuously evaluating technological and societal trends to support team, self and clients in adopting emerging technologies.

2021 tuition fees are AUD$3,840 per course, totalling AUD$15,360 for 4 courses.

See our fees page for more information. Fees apply to 2021 only. Fees are adjusted on an annual basis and these fees should only be used as a guide.

In addition to tuition fees, you will be charged an annual student services and amenities fee (SSAF) based on your enrolment load, which is used to maintain and enhance services and amenities that improve your experience as an RMIT student. Eligible local students can apply for an SA-HELP loan to defer payment of their SSAF.

For more information about calculating your actual SSAF see Paying SSAF.