Master of Sustainability
University of Sydney
Description
By tackling key global issues, the Master of Sustainability equips students to further their career in diverse areas from environmental science to finance, from law to urban planning, and from sustainable building design to public health. They learn about energy conservation, population health, food security, sustainability policy, and sustainability analysis tools. In this one-and-a-half-year postgraduate course you will boost your education with an understanding of complex sustainability challenges and discover tools to measure, report on and identify solutions to these challenges. The Master of Sustainability builds on the Graduate Diploma with a capstone project that includes researching current sustainability problems in collaboration with industry, aiming to deliver sustainable solutions to the industry partners. Offering excellent flexibility, the sustainability program allows students to tailor their subjects to suit their own background and career interests. An initial foundation in sustainability-based units, with core units including health and population, energy and resources, food and water security, policy and governance, social change, and sustainability analysis tools. Students then broaden their studies by choosing electives across a range of areas or focus on one aspect and design their Masters course capstone project in that area.