Master of Sustainability for 2012

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 sustainability, corporate sustainability management, or sustainable development, encompassing policy and analysis, planning, consulting, education, advocacy and management. It is also designed for those who wish to broaden and deepen their understanding and experience to enable societal, organisational and individual change and responsible action to support sustainability both domestically and internationally. The Master of Sustainability comprises three distinct streams:

• Environment and Sustainability: For students who wish to broaden and deepen their understanding and experience to enable societal and individual 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 environment and sustainability and to propose realistic solutions in both personal and professional settings, while a wide range of electives cater for specialised needs and interests.
• Corporate and Environmental 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 Environmental Analysis: For students who wish to pursue careers or enhance their professional skills in the fields of international development and environmental sustainability. Core units introduce students to international and comparative perspectives and approaches to development and global sustainability, and encourage critical and comparative analysis of international development policies and practice, promoting active engagement in sustainable development in transnational and regional contexts.

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

The current handbook entry below links to the 2011 handbook which just covers one stream - Master of Environment and Sustainability. The 2012 handbook goes live on 1 October 2011 and this will show all the 2012 stream structures.