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Postgraduate TAS-SBS-GCE-2023

Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Business

Improve organisations’ environmental, social, and economic impacts.

Help businesses balance profit with people and the planet. You’ll learn to manage sustainability issues for organisations that care about their triple bottom line. Contribute to sustainable development. Consider a broader social system. 

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Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)

Total subjects

4

Price

From

$11,350

Study method

100% Online

Assessments

100% online

Credit available

Yes

Applications Close

  • 05 Feb 23
  • 25 Jun 23
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Degree structure

4

Core subjects

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Major subjects

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Elective subjects

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Degree

Degree details

What you'll learn

Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to: 

  1. Identify and evaluate various sustainability-related risks and opportunities that confront organisations and society.
  2. Think critically to formulate solutions, make decisions and recommendations about contemporary business problems related to the sustainability agenda.
  3. Communicate both in oral and written form to justify proposed initiatives for improving the social and environmental performance of an organisation.
Career opportunities

Students completing this course will be able to work in all industry sectors as sustainability-informed professionals helping organisations in understanding their social and environmental impacts and ensuring that important environmental, social, and governance issues are addressed. Sustainability-informed professional are high in demand as organisations are currently looking at net zero carbon emissions pathways and ethically performing supply chains.

Entry requirements

Higher education

To be eligible for an offer, applicants must have:

  • A completed undergraduate or postgraduate course in a non-accounting discipline at Bachelor level or higher
Credit for previous study or work

The University of Tasmania grants credit and recognition of prior learning that may include formal and/or informal prior learning. More information is available here.

 https://www.utas.edu.au/study/apply/admission-requirements/recognition-of-prior-learning

Description

It is becoming increasingly an expectation of different classes of stakeholders that organisations, including large corporates, SMEs, not-for-profits, industry bodies, educational institutions, and so forth address their significant social and environmental impacts (both positive and negative). Accepting a responsibility and associated accountability for social and environmental /sustainability-related performance is now accepted as an important aspect of managing an organisation, with a failure to do so putting an organisation’s future at risk.


From a business education perspective, there is a corresponding need to move away from a primary focus on the management of, and accountability for, financial performance towards a more balanced and nuanced perspective focused upon financial, social and environmental performance and related accountability.


This Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Business allows graduates to develop knowledge and skills helpful for managing the sustainability related issues necessary in a society increasingly concerned about the social and environmental performance and impacts of organisations.

Degree structure details

Recommended Study Pattern

For students undertaking full-time study, the following study pattern is recommended.


Completion of 4 core subjects from the schedule below:

  • TAS-BFA757 Socially Responsible Investing
  • TAS-BFA758 Organisational Social Responsibilities
  • TAS-BFA759 Managing and Reporting Sustainability Related Performance
  • TAS-BFA760 Sustainability Related Governance and Assurance

Award Requirements

Satisfactory completion of 4 subjects, as required in the schedule, within 0.5-2 years from commencement.

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