Overview

The Graduate Diploma prepares our graduates to become transformative thinkers about environmental issues and their social, cultural, and structural drivers and impacts at local and global scales. You will rigorously, critically, and creatively engage with sociocultural and political-economic causes of, and responses to, today’s human-inclusive environmental challenges. In addition to … For more content click the Read More button below. This program is primarily taught in Face-to-Face/Blended mode; with the exception of optional field-based courses, the program can also be completed via Distance.

Learning Outcomes

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Explain environment and sustainability concepts and analytical frameworks, including established theories and recent developments in the transdisciplinary field, to describe how today’s problems are entangled in social, cultural, and political-economic questions.
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Demonstrate knowledge of place-based and international perspectives relevant to environment and sustainability, and describe the relevance of social systems of power and cultural systems of knowledge.
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Use critical and creative synthesis to evaluate environmental issues and articulate reflexive responses to real-world new or complex problems.
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Communicate effectively in a variety of formats to diverse audiences.
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Demonstrate a high level of personal autonomy and accountability in the acquisition and application of knowledges and skills to initiate, embrace, and engage others in ethical, sustainable, and regenerative change.
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Graduate Capabilities

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Program Structure

Students must complete 48 UOC when taken as a standalone program.

  1. Core Courses (12 UOC)
  2. Disciplinary Knowledge Courses (24 UOC)
  3. Electives (12 UOC)

Core Courses12 Units of Credit:
Disciplinary Knowledge Courses
Electives

Enrolment Disclaimer

Please note that this Handbook is a comprehensive catalogue of our offerings and includes courses that can be taken to satisfy program requirements irrespective as to their availability for a particular year. Availability of courses is best checked using filters on this site or on the class timetable site.

You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.

Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

Minimum Entry Requirements

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International Student

Program Requirements

Internship, Placement and Exchange Opportunities

Students who have completed 3 IEST courses and have a WAM 65 or higher may choose to take one or both of the following courses:

IEST8001 Environment & Society Leadership Practicum I: Project or Internship (6 UoC)

IEST8003 Environment & Society Leadership Practicum I: Project or Internship (6 UoC)

Progression Requirements

Articulation arrangements: If you successfully complete the requirements for this program with a credit average, you may apply for articulation into the Master's program and receive full credit for all courses completed. If you have a WAM between 60 and 64 you may be considered for articulation into the Master's program at the discretion of the program authority. If you have completed 24 UOC you can choose to articulate to and graduate from the Graduate Certificate provided that all requirements for the Graduate Certificate have been met.

For more information on university policy on progression requirements please visit Academic Progression

Associated Programs

Nested Postgraduate Program

Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management - GCertEM7339 - Environmental Management
Master of Environmental Management - MEM8623 - Environmental Management

Professional Outcomes

Career Opportunities

Alumni are working as environmental and sustainability leaders in prominent positions within outreach and education, policy and regulation, arts and performance, law and planning, conservation and restoration, research and consultancy, and organisation and mobilisation in Australia and internationally in a wide range of NGOs, in non-profit and for-profit industries, and across levels of government.

Additional Information

Further Information

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Program Fees

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