99222 Sustainability Studio

Description

This final Sustainability and Environment core subject supports students to self-source a short placement of 100 hours with an external organisation, in a role that draws on their skills sets from the Bachelor of Sustainability and Environment. The organisation in which students intern also form the basis of a major course-work project. The major project that students undertake, enables them to closely study how a real-world organisation seeks to address issues related to sustainability (environmental, social, and/or economic[KY1] ). Through face to face workshops and online interactive learning modules, students are guided to draw on transdisciplinary knowledge and skills gained from preceding subjects in their substantive discipline stream and the suite of their core Sustainability and Environment subjects. The major project sharpens their capabilities to scope, research and analyse a sustainability and environment problem, and appraise policy and practice strategies to address it. Prior to the session starting, students receive academic guidance and administrative support in sourcing their work placements. The task of securing a placement helps students not only gain insights about sustainability and environment organisations and strengthen their professional networking skills, but also develop professional language and practice capabilities including: being interviewed, workplace communication, and task management.