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MSc Global Environmental Sustainability

  • DeadlineStudy Details: MSc 1 year full-time

Masters Degree Description

Are you passionate about environmental sustainability and the actions needed to combat current challenges? In this interdisciplinary programme, you'll look at environmental, social, economic and political factors that shape sustainable development and translate theory into practical outcomes.

Aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, our MSc Global Environmental Sustainability focuses on sustainability challenges and how we can develop localised solutions by looking at a range of place-based case studies. Through a combination of course content and your final project, you'll be able to develop a range of transferrable skills that expands your career options, such as:

  • model scenario interpretation and systems thinking
  • data gathering and analysis
  • problem articulation and solution design
  • literature and sustainability plan evaluation
  • research communication
  • GIS (geographical information systems)
  • critical appraisal of the ethics of sustainability solutions
  • interdisciplinary thinking to develop solutions for action

You’ll be part of a diverse and international student community, which will allow you to expand your global connections. This is also an excellent opportunity to broaden your horizons on global environmental sustainability through peer learning.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

‘Green skills’ are in demand from all types of industries. Graduates from this course are well placed to work in:

  • environmental NGOs
  • sustainability departments in businesses such as consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, education, finance and healthcare
  • local and national government, working on sustainability solutions or policy
  • environmental consultancy, advising how organisations can improve their sustainability performance
  • environmental protection agencies, supporting sustainable developments or working in regulation
  • academia and research

Module Details

Core modules

  • Foundations of Sustainability
  • Global Frontiers for Sustainability
  • Techniques for Environmental Solutions
  • Project Preparation Design and Management
  • Project

Optional modules

You will choose at least one, and up to three modules from the following:

  • Advances in Managing Rivers and Catchments
  • Climate Change Decision-Making in Context
  • Ecosystem Function, Management and Conservation
  • People and the Environment

Optional modules

You can choose up to one module from the following:

  • Animal Geographies
  • Environment, Development and Livelihoods
  • Fashion and Food

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