Master of Sustainability Electives

Students complete electives sufficient to bring the total number of points for the degree to 72 credit points. If required, electives may be chosen from level three offerings, but only to a maximum of 12 points. Students must assure that they complete a total of at least 24 points at level 5.

Core units from other streams may be taken as electives, with the exception of APG4427 Frontiers in Sustainability and Environment (available only to students in the Environment and Sustainability Stream), BTX9100 Sustainability Regulation (available only to students of the Corporate and Environmental Sustainability Management stream) and APG5805 The Art and Business of International Development (only for students of the International Development and Environmental Analysis stream).

The following list provides suggested electives, organised into themes. Other electives may be chosen from across the University with permission from the stream coordinator and, if no equivalent unit is available at Monash, from other Universities.

Students intending to complete a final research project are strongly advised to include at least one Research Methodology elective.

Elective themes

Business and Management

APG4389 Tourism industry and marketing
APG4390 Contemporary Issues in tourism
APG4709 Sustainable tourism development and planning
APG5433 Corporate sustainability management
APG5434 Sustainability measurement
AFF9020 Introduction to risk principles
AFF5011 Issues in risk management
AFF5031 Principles of risk transfer
AFX5860 International studies in banking and finance
BTX5000 Corporate governance
CHB5207 Ethical Issues in professional life
ECC4690 International trade
ECC4790 Project evaluation
MGX9600 Managing people and organisations
MGX9660 International business theory and practice
MGX9720 Managing organisational change
MGX9761 Strategic management
MGX5020 Business ethics in a global environment
MGX5030 Corporate social responsibility
MGX5730 International trade policy
MKX9160 Foundations of marketing
MKF5280 Marketing environmental sustainability

Development Studies and Practice

APG4284 Gender, sexuality, power
APG4329 Political Islam
APG4334 Southeast Asian politics
APG4553 Field studies in regional sustainability: South Africa field-based unit
APG4556 Urbanisation and regional development in the Indo-Pacific rims
APG4628 Doctrines of development
APG4667 Fringe politics and extremist violence: An introduction to terrorism
APG4668 Perspectives on world politics
APG4702 Culture and conflict in Indonesia
APG4772 Community development in a globalising world
APG5656 International crisis management in action
APG5669 Foreign aid and world development B
APG5804 Environmental revolutions
ATS3376 Political anthropology: Ethnic and national identities in the modern world
ATS3378 Development and the Third World
ATS3384 Women in Asia: Gender, tradition and modernity
ATS3622 Production, consumerism and the environment in the contemporary world
ATS3691 Politics, violence and memory
ATS3701 Terrorism and violence in global politics
ATS3706 Washington and world politics
ATS3707 Australia and the world
ATS3725 Population and society
ATS4326 China: the quest for modernisation
ATS4327 Wars of recognition: terrorism and political violence

Economics & Environmental Economics

APG4283 Sharing prosperity
APG5762 Environmental economics and policy
ECC3570 The international economy since 1945
ECC3670 Economics of developing countries
ECC3690 International economics
ECC4650 Microeconomics
ECC4670 Economic development
ECC4830 Welfare economics
ECX9040 Economics of climate change
ECF9210 Introduction to international economics
ECF9530 Economics
ECC5690 Theories in international and development economics
ECC5810 Public economics

Environmental Management & Thinking

APG4339/APG5339 Sustainability and the sacred
APG4391/APG5391 Exploring Australia: Diverse people, diverse lives
APG4430 Ecological systems and management
APG4554 Resource evaluation and management
APG4627 Research in political ecology
APG4708 Ecotourism Management
APG4758 GIS for environmental science
APG4887 Designing urban futures: Urban climate, water and adaptation
APG5426 Environmental analysis
APG5428 Environmental governance & citizenship
ATS3411 Weird Weather: Literature, culture and climate
ATS3427 Earthworks: Literature and environment
ATS3546 Environmental assessment and decision making
ATS3547 Cities and sustainability
ATS3709 Politics of environmentalism
ATS3788 Soils, landscape and their management
ATS3871 Environmental ethics
ATS4303 Issues in environmental history: Images of the natural world
ATS4558 Earth system interactions: From biogeochemical cycles to global change
ATS4902 Geopolitics of climate change
AFF9012 Carbon pricing
CHM3960 Environmental chemistry
CIV4261 Integrated urban water management
CIV5261 Flood management in urban and rural environments
CIV5264 Management of water resources and related infrastructure
CIV5314 Transport planning and policy
CIV5316 Fundamentals of urban public transport
ENE3048 Energy and the environment
ENE4607 Environmental risk assessment
ENV3022 Environmental technology
GYM4370 Designing urban futures: Urban climate, water and adaptation

Legal Studies (Students without a law background should consult Law faculty)

APG5438 The European Union and the world
BTC3100 Sustainability and the law
BTF3100 Environmental law for business
BTX9500 Business and corporation law
BTX9760 Risk control and the law
BTX5040 Legal aspects of corporate social responsibility 
BTX5090 Good governance and accountability in non-profit and social enterprises
BTX5110 Water resource management
BTX5130 International law and policy
BTX5140 Law and business decisions
LAW4115 Environmental Law
LAW5136 International environmental law 506
LAW7028 International trade law
LAW7068 International environmental law
LAW7253 Human rights in the global economy
LAW7434 The law of climate change

Public Policy and Management

APG4401 Communications, convergence and public policy
APG5686 Issues in public policy
MGX9230 Public policy
MGX9270 Public management
MGX5360 Strategic management in the public sector
MGX5440 Public sector financial management
MGX5461 Contemporary issues in globalisation
MGX5670 Leadership
MGX5760 International institutions and organisations
MGX5770 Business and government

Research Methodology

ATS3723 Social research methods
ATS4587 Research methods in geography, environment and sustainability
ATS4857 Theory and practice of sociology
APG4259 Into the field: The theory and practice of ethnography
APG4552 Remote sensing of the environment
APG4681/APG5681 Qualitative research strategies
APG4683/APG5683 Survey research
APG4684/APG5684 Applied statistics
APG4685 Data analysis software for social research
APG4696 Gender, globalisation and development: Research issues
APG4758 Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for environmental science