(Award available for year: Master of Science)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
1- Apply specialist knowledge of techniques relevant to sustainability consultancy and project planning and management.
2- Evaluating generic and subject-specific knowledge and techniques related to project management and sustainability consultancy.
3- Analyse problems and propose solutions based on sustainability research and knowledge.
4- Evaluate concepts, information and techniques informed by knowledge across, or in aspects at, the forefront of sustainability research.
5- Apply a proactive and self-reflective role in working and developing professional relationships with others.
6- Create ideas and hypotheses and evaluate these in relation to current issues and research in environment, development and sustainability research.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1- Planning and resource use to undertake multi-disciplinary work on sustainability-related topics.
2- The skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in an industry or area of professional practice, namely, presentation skills, collaboration, problem-solving and analytical skills.
3- The skills required to evaluate one’s own achievement and that of others, such as adaptability, cultural diversity awareness and teamwork.
4- Self-direction and effective decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations.
5- Active and independent learning and the ability to work in a way ensure continuing professional development.
6- Critical and systems thinking in developing professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.
Competence Standards
1. Apply collaborative approaches to identify solutions to decrease environmental degradation, economic disparities and social inequalities.
2. Analyse complex environmental and social systems across multiple scales and domains in order to explain related connectivity and cause-effect relationships.
3. Develop informed decisions about maximising sustainable outcomes using qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods from a range of disciplines with appropriate support as required.
4. Effectively communicate recommended sustainability-related solutions to a range of audiences in intercultural contexts.
The programme includes a variety of formative and summative assessments designed to replicate the work of consultants in the environmental and sustainability fields. Thus, there is a combination of individual and group work. Examples include individual technical reports, group and individual oral presentations, and multi-criteria questionnaires.
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