StudyQA — Master: Sustainability — The University of Sydney

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By tackling key global issues, the Master of Sustainability will equip you to further your career in diverse areas from environmental science to finance, from law to urban planning, and from sustainable building design to public health. You’ll 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 experience that will put you to work in teams to research current sustainability problems in collaboration with industry (including your own job, if appropriate), aiming to deliver sustainable solutions to the industry partners.
Offering excellent flexibility, the sustainability program lets you tailor your subjects to suit your background and career interests. First, you will build a foundation in sustainability, with core units including health and population, energy and resources, food and water security, policy and governance, social change, and sustainability analysis tools. Then, you will broaden your study of sustainability by choosing your electives across a range of areas or focus on one aspect by choosing related electives and designing your Masters course capstone project in that area.
By joining the sustainability program at the University of Sydney, you will be part of a truly multidisciplinary experience. Six faculties across the University deliver core content, and nine faculties teaching into the program’s electives. You will be guided by the University’s experts, who are leaders in their fields internationally, and also from industry professionals, who partner with the program as guest speakers and mentors to provide insight into a range of workplaces.
You will gain both a theoretical understanding and applied skills to connect sustainability processes to specific areas of business, development, health and policy, among others. With this new understanding of sustainability, you’ll have the tools to change your approach to your current work or embark on an entirely new career.

The core units of study in the Sustainability program are:

Unit code	Unit name	When	Mode	Unit type
SUST5001	Introduction to Sustainability	Semester 1, Semester 2	Weekly classes	Core
SUST5002	Food and Water Security	Semester 2	Weekly classes	Optional core
SUST5003	Energy and Resources	Semester 1	Weekly classes	Optional core
SUST5004	Populations and Health	Semester 2	Weekly classes (alternating workshops and online tutorials)	Optional core
SUST5005	Policy and Sustainability	Semester 2	Intensive	Optional core
SUST5006	Sustainability: Business and Leadership	Semester 1	Weekly classes	Optional core
PHYS5031	Ecological Economics and Sustainability Analysis	Semester 1	Weekly classes	Optional core
SUST5007-9*	Capstone research project	Semester 1, Semester 2	Self-organised meetings with mentor	Core*

IELTS: A minimum result of 6.5 overall and a minimum result of 6.0 in each band TOEFL paper-based: A minimum result of 565 overall including a minimum result of 4.5 in Writing TOEFL IBT: A minimum result of 85 overall including a minimum result of 17 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 19 in Writing
The equivalent of an Australian bachelor’s degree