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Graduate Diploma in Environment and Sustainability

Course code: 0095 + Course abbreviation: GradDipEnv&Sust + Total credit points required: 48 + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This course is designed to meet the needs of graduates from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds who wish to enhance their qualifications for careers in environmental 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 and individual change and responsible action to support sustainability. Its comprehensive set of core units provides the knowledge and skills to critically analyse problems of environment and sustainability and to propose realistic solutions in both personal and professional settings. Team-based research projects give students the opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary context and to combine theory and practice in responding to local and global issues at individual, community, corporate and government levels. Electives cater for a wide range of specialised needs and interests.

Entry requirements

Applicants require a bachelors degree in any discipline. Those without a bachelors degree but with other tertiary qualifications or relevant professional experience at senior level may apply but must provide a CV, a 1000-word statement and the names of two professional referees.

Course structure

Students complete 48 points of coursework, including 24 points of core units and 24 points of elective units chosen in consultation with a member of academic staff.

Core units

  • ENV4020 Perspectives on environment and sustainability (6 points)
  • ENV4030 Environmental analysis (6 points)
  • ENV4040 Frontiers in sustainability and environment (6 points)
  • ENV403C Interdisciplinary team research (6 points)

Elective units

  • ENV414F Ecological systems and management (6 points)
  • ENV415F Law and the environment (6 points)
  • ENV416F Introduction to economics (6 points)
  • GES4890 Earth system interactions: from biogeochemical cycles to global change (6 points)

The School of Geography and Environmental Science can provide a list of other electives offered across the university. If required, electives may be chosen from level 3 offerings, but only to a maximum of 12 points.

Environmental science units currently vary between student contribution amount (SCA) band one and two; elective and foundation units range from SCA band one to three.

Contact details

Course coordinator

Coordinator: Dr Sharron Pfueller

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