This course presents students with a unique opportunity to contribute to an emerging challenge that we all face – how to make our lives, livelihoods, communities, environments and spaces sustainable. To meet this challenge society will need graduates, those with an awareness and understandings of disciplines from across environmental, social and economic domains. The environmental domain covers the water, air and soil and the biota that inhabit them, while the economic domain deals with the financial and managerial aspects of business and resource decisions. The social domain recognises that people are both the cause and solution to sustainability issues. Students will receive practical and theoretical guidance in a set of skills that are essential for solving problems: systems thinking, critical thinking, and decision-making, and will build personal attributes that will enable them to work in teams to generate new ideas, and new solutions. Studies will include an emphasis on field-based exercises and work-place learning. The course consists of a core set of units, plus an opportunity to develop a specialisation in one of four fields.

Standard University Admission requirements apply.

Students who have completed a TAFE Diploma, or Dual Diploma, or equivalent, in an allied sustainability or sustainable development field may be admitted to this course with advanced standing.

Students are required to successfully complete 360 credit points (twenty four units).

The degree has two components:

1. A core program of 19 units (compulsory).

2. An 8 unit major from a prescribed set (3 units of which will come from the core, 5 units of which will come from units offered in the major). 

Practicum and project units are associated with the majors.