Geography and the environment
Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management
This is an innovative masters program designed to meet the growing need for skilled professionals who have competencies in both business and environmental/sustainability management and who understand the nexus between the two. It is vocationally oriented and flexible.
For example, the course accommodates students who have only business or environmental backgrounds, people with significant industry experience, and people wishing to move into the field. Also, it includes a research component, which can be completed within a workplace or as an internship. The program draws on the faculty’s highly regarded research program in corporate sustainability and socially responsible investment.
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Environment and Sustainability
This course is designed to meet the needs of graduates from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds who wish to enhance their qualifications for careers in environmental policy and analysis, planning, consulting, education, advocacy and management.
It is also designed for those who wish to broaden and deepen their understanding and experience to enable societal and individual change and responsible action to support sustainability. Its comprehensive set of core units provides knowledge and skills to critically analyse problems of environment and sustainability and to propose realistic solutions in both personal and professional settings. Research projects and internships give students the opportunity to work in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary real-world contexts and to combine theory and practice in responding to local and global issues at individual, community, corporate and government levels. Electives cater for a wide range of specialised needs and interests.
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Integrated Water Management
The Master of Integrated Water Management is a jointly-budged degree offered by Monash University in collaboration with the University of Queensland, Griffith University and the University of Western Australia.
The course draws on the expertise of international leaders in teaching and research across a wide breadth of disciplines, taking a multi-disciplinary `whole-of-water-cycle’ approach that equips students with practical tools and skills for adopting innovative solutions to local, regional, national and international water resource issues.
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International Development and Environmental Analysis
This course is designed for students from a wide range of backgrounds who wish to pursue careers or enhance their professional skills in the fields of international development and environmental sustainability.
It takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to exploring the processes, theories, and practices of globalisation. The course introduces students to international and comparative perspectives on global sustainability and development. It does this by focusing on processes such as global production systems, foreign direct investment, natural resource management and development, devolution of governance during a time of centralisation of geopolitical power, global climate change, and changing concepts of property in natural resource exploitation and management.
It seeks to encourage critical and comparative analysis of international development policies and practice, and to promote active engagement in sustainable development in transnational and regional contexts.
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Journalism / Environment and Sustainability
This double masters degree offers a comprehensive introduction to issues of sustainability and related policy and planning processes at an entry-level qualification for a professional career in journalism.
In addition, it offers a mid-career course for working journalists seeking to extend their expertise and refresh the intellectual basis of their practice. It has a national and international orientation designed to optimise the contribution graduates will make to their profession using a full range of media technologies and insights into approaches to sustainability.
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Environment and Sustainability
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Journalism / International Development & Environmental Analysis
The Master of Journalism and International Development and Environmental Analysis provides a comprehensive introduction to international development and environmental change, and an entry-level qualification for a professional journalism career. It is a mid-career course for working journalists seeking to extend their expertise and refresh the intellectual basis of their practice.
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International Development & Environmental Analysis
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