Passionate about a specific interdisciplinary niche? Design a study plan to fit your interests
Coordinator: Professor David Kennedy
Co-coordinators: Dr Stephanie Lavau, Dr Georgia Garrard, and Gab Corbo-Perkins.
Overview
Employers in the environmental sector seek graduates who are able to integrate knowledge across disciplines, collaborate effectively in cross-disciplinary teams, and translate information for different audiences.
New areas of environmental specialisation are emerging that require synthesis of knowledge from historically distinct fields – for example, combining a knowledge of environmental sustainability with business entrepreneurship, drawing on knowledge of public health to improve landscape planning processes, or pursuing practices that require advanced knowledge of both energy systems and environmental law.
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Designed for
The tailored specialisation is designed to support students to develop skills for integration, collaboration and translation while gaining depth of knowledge in one or more fields of inquiry. The flexible structure enables students to tailor subject selection to meet personal learning objectives, developed in consultation with an academic advisor.
View full list of Tailored Specialisation subjects in the Handbook
Example Focus: Sustainable Business and Clean Energy
Year 1 | Semester 1 | Environmental Sustainability | Energy for Sustainable Development | Climate Change Mitigation | Managerial Psychology |
Semester 2 | Climate Change Politics and Policy | Sustainability Accounting | Environmental Policy Instruments | Public Policy Lobbying Strategies | |
Year 2 | Semester 1 | Project Management | Sustainable Business Practices | Industry Research Project | |
Semester 2 | Partnerships for Sustainable Futures | Managing Innovation and Change | |||
NEW ZEALAND
Master of Environment,
2 year program,
Tailored specialisation
"I saw the Master of Environment program as an opportunity to not only build upon my existing knowledge and passion for addressing environmental issues, but also to combine this knowledge with an additional focus on sustainable business and clean energy. The flexibility within the degree structure, and particularly within the tailored specialisation, allowed me the freedom to explore these interests.
The multidisciplinary nature of the course attracts students from a board range of cultures and backgrounds, and I’ve relished the opportunity to interact with so many fascinating and knowledgeable individuals throughout my time here."
Example Focus: Sustainable Food Systems
Year 1 | Semester 1 | Environmental Sustainability | Political Ecology of Development | Development Special Topic | The Politics of Food |
Semester 2 | Nom communicable Disease and Global Health | Securing Health and Sufficient Food | Nutrition Politics and Policy | International Child Health | |
Year 2 | Semester 1 | Food Production in Urban Landscapes | Sustainable Landscapes | Research project | |
Semester 2 | Partnerships for Sustainable Futures | Study Abroad subject | |||
PhD candidate,
University of Melbourne.
Founder: Youth Food Movement,
Melbourne
" I originally trained as a curator but as I started out on that career path I became increasingly curious about the food system, I joined the youth food movement and soon wanted more. I hunted around a lot looking for study options available to me - I settled on the Master of Environment and moved to Melbourne. The Master of Environment has allowed me to focus in on sustainable food systems while allowing me to have a truly interdisciplinary experience. I've studied development subjects, food policy and public health, got my hands dirty doing horticulture at Burnley as well as studied overseas and undertaken a major research project. Taking such a broad view allowed me to understand the complexity of food systems and helped me identify my research interests. I'm about to start my PhD here in a topic I didn't even know existed when I started - nutrition politics. It has been a really rich experience studying with students from such different backgrounds and I'm sure the networks established during my time here will stay with me through life. Already with some of my student colleagues I've founded an organisation, The Fair Food Challenge - lobbying Australian Universities to adopt comprehensive food policies."