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Short Courses
St Andrew’s College offers distinctive, high-quality short courses in a range of subjects to support human capabilities and employability. Unique to St Andrew’s, these courses include Complex Problem Solving, Leadership, and more.
Leadership Essentials
An introductory course in which students will explore the essentials of leadership, covering different leadership models and reflecting upon how their own personal style of leadership intersects with the leading theories. This course is designed for aspiring leaders in both the college context and the workplace.
Advanced Leadership
Drawing on their own experience as leaders within College or planning to advance their leadership strategies and ambitions, students will co-design their own pathway through the course according to their needs and interests. Topics covered include strategies for leadership, leading effective teams, having difficult conversations, values and ethics in leadership, receiving feedback and active listening.
Complex Problem Solving
Complex problem solving has been described as the core skill for twenty-first century teams and is highly valued in the workplace. This course will introduce students to the concept of structured problem solving and demonstrate the application, across a range of practical case studies, of the Seven Steps framework: I. Define the Problem, II. Disaggregate, III. Prioritize, IV. Workplan, V. Analyze, VI. Synthesize, VII. Communicate.
Leaders in Jurisprudence
Taught by Justice Ian Jackman SC and hosted at his chambers in Sydney, this course takes students through some of the most fascinating conundrums of legal philosophy and looks at how scholarly leadership and original thinking can have a major impact on a hotly contested field of scholarship.