This course presents students with a unique opportunity to contribute to an emerging challenge that we all face - how to make our lives, livelihoods, communities, environments and spaces sustainable. To meet this challenge, society will need graduates with an awareness and understanding of disciplines from across environmental, social and economic domains. The environmental domain covers the water, air and soil and the biota that inhabit them, while the economic domain deals with the financial and managerial aspects of business and resource decisions. The social domain recognizes that people are both the cause of and solution to sustainability issues. Students will receive practical and theoretical guidance in a set of skills that are essential for solving problems: systems thinking, critical thinking, and decision-making, and will build personal attributes that will enable them to work in teams to generate new ideas, and new solutions. Studies will include an emphasis on field-based exercises and workplace learning. Course structure Students are required to complete 19 Core units and a Major, with three of the eight units from the Major already included in the Core program. Developing Sustainable Communities Major Focuses on utilizing the whole community approach in shaping sustainable communities. In this major students develop an understanding of people and their relationships with their communities, strategies to support people and communities to work together to meet common goals, and skills in building communities to be environments where people want to work and live. Students will be able to apply the knowledge necessary to support people to remain engaged with their community, build social capital, mobilize resources and develop partnerships to plan sustainable and livable environments. Work Experience Requirement Students are required to complete a year-long professional placement unit which provides opportunities for extended work integrated learning experiences within the community. Possible future job titles Sustainability Officer, Sustainability Practitioner, Sustainability Consultant, Government Officer, Scientific Adviser.