Program start date | Application deadline |
2024-07-01 | - |
Program Overview
The Master of Applied Behaviour Analysis provides comprehensive training in ABA principles, applicable to various fields including education, disability, and personal development. Students can pursue a dissertation pathway or select electives in Year 2. The program prepares graduates for enhanced professional roles, everyday life applications, or pursuing accreditation as behaviour practitioners.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This degree provides students with comprehensive and flexible training in applied behaviour analysis. The principles of ABA underpin most evidence-based interventions and practices in the fields of education and disability and can be applied to any life situation in which the aim is to learn new skills, enhance individual or team performance, or to understand and reduce behaviours that challenge. This degree program is relevant to students wishing to apply knowledge of these principles and practices to their current work (for example, teachers, early intervention workers, allied health professionals, managers, principals) as well as those who ultimately want to pursue accreditation as a behaviour practitioner.
Outline:
Year 1
- Introduction to Applied Behaviour Analysis (10 credit points)
- Assessing and Measuring Behaviour (10 credit points)
- Foundations of Research Inquiry (10 credit points)
- Community Internship and Partnerships for SDGs (10 credit points)
- Disability Inclusion (10 credit points)
- Person-Centred Planning (10 credit points)
Year 2
Dissertation Pathway:
- Dissertation - 8002AHS_P1 (10 credit points)
- Dissertation - 8002AHS_P2 (10 credit points)
- Dissertation - 8002AHS_P3 (10 credit points)
- Dissertation - 8002AHS_P4 (10 credit points)
Standard Pathway:
Careers:
Students who complete the Master of Applied Behaviour Analysis will typically apply their knowledge and skills in one of three ways. Students may use their training to enhance their existing professional capacity as teachers and allied health clinicians. Students may apply their training to everyday life such as parents and caregivers raising children with developmental disabilities. Successful completion of this Masters would fulfil two of the three requirements for sitting the external exam to become a Board Certified Behaviour Analysts (BCBA) or Board Certified Assistant Behaviour Analyst (BCaBA).