Master of Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management (M CESM)
CRICOS Provider: Monash University 00008C; MCESM 047764A. Course Code: 3090
The Master of Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management is an innovative masters program designed to meet the growing need for skilled professionals that have competencies in both business and environmental/sustainability and that understand the nexus between the two. It is vocationally oriented and with an inbuilt flexibility to accommodate students who have only business or environmental backgrounds, people with significant industry experience and those wishing to move into the field. It includes a research component which can be completed as a workplace project/internship. The program draws upon the School of Geography and Environmental Science’s highly regarded research program in corporate sustainability and socially responsible investment, which operates as Monash Sustainability Enterprises (MSE).
Program Objectives
The MCESM aims to provide students with an understanding of key environment and sustainability management concepts, principles, issues and trends and to enable them to relate these to business management theory and practice. The course enables students to apply corporate environmental and sustainability management – best practice concepts and skills to the business sector.
The course will enable students to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of key environment and sustainability management concepts, principles, issues and trends.
- Understand the linkages between business practice and sustainability outcomes, based on a command of analytical skills which enable the identification of both immediate and downstream impacts of business activities.
- Relate environment and sustainability management techniques and strategies to business management theory and practice.
- Understand the existing synergies between business management theory and practice and environment and sustainability management approaches, and the application of business tools to achieve environmental and sustainability objectives.
- Understand organisational barriers and change strategies to facilitate sustainability improvement based on the appreciation of the culture and organisational factors which underpin business practice.
- Apply basic corporate environmental management principles to real world context, using the skills to apply corporate environment and sustainability principles and analytical techniques to work-place based environment and sustainability issues and/or case studies.
Double Masters Opportunity
3839- Master of Business Administration/Master of Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management
This double-degree course aims to provide a broad-based foundation in business and management while providing existing and aspiring corporate sustainability professionals with the opportunity of developing specialist knowledge and expertise in sustainable development.
The learning goals are to:
- provide managers and aspiring managers with an educational experience that will enable them to become outstanding leaders within organisations
- develop knowledge and skills across a broad range of business disciplines to enable students to effectively manage and lead an organisation
- develop specific knowledge and skills in corporate environmental and sustainability management; further enhance communication, inter-personal, problem solving and critical thinking capabilities.
For more information, see:
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/3090.html