Master of Sustainability for 2013

Why study Master of Sustainability?

This interdisciplinary course is designed to meet the needs of graduates from a wide range of backgrounds who wish to enhance their qualifications for careers in environmental governance, corporate sustainability management, or international development, encompassing policy and analysis, planning, consulting, education, and advocacy, and targeting areas such as water management, natural resource management and climate change. It is also designed for those who wish to broaden and deepen their understanding and experience to enable societal and organisational change and foster responsible action to support sustainability both domestically and internationally. The Master of Sustainability comprises three distinct streams:

• Environment and Governance: For students who wish to broaden and deepen their understanding and experience to enable societal and governmental change and responsible action to support sustainability, and to enhance their qualifications for careers in environmental policy and analysis, planning, consulting, education, advocacy and management. Core units provides knowledge and skills to critically analyse problems of environmental governance and sustainability and to propose realistic solutions, while a wide range of electives cater for specialised needs and interests.
• Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management: Designed to meet the growing need for skilled professionals that have competencies in both business and environmental/sustainability management and who understand the nexus between the two. It is vocationally oriented and flexible, to accommodate students who have only business or environmental backgrounds, people with significant industry experience, and people wishing to move into the field.
• International Development and Natural Resource Mangement: For students who wish to pursue careers or enhance their professional skills in the fields of international development and natural resource management. Core units introduce students to comparative perspectives on development and environment, and integrative approaches to mangement of natural resources and landscapes. The stream provides rigorous theoretical and practical training in analysis of international development policies and programs targeting urban environments, climate change, biodiversity conservation, food security, management of rural livelihoods and commons resources, and privatisation of ecosystem services.

All three streams offer a research or internship project component, which provide students the opportunity to work in interdisciplinary real-world contexts to combine theory and practice in responding to local and global issues at individual, community, corporate and government levels.

Please Note: The three course streams were three individual courses in 2011.

• 3783 Master of Environment and Sustainability (this is the same course code for the new emerged course Master of Sustainability)
• 3086 Master of International Development and Environmental Analysis
• 3090 Master of Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management