Master of Laws in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development

at University of New South Wales - Kensington Campus Australia

The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) is a four-year full-time degree.

Have you always wanted to design beautiful and sustainable environments that inspire and change the way people engage with the outside world around them? As a landscape architect, you’ll use the best combination of art and science to plan, design and manage environments that regenerate ecological systems and celebrate cultural values. Think of yourself as a creative problem solver equipped with the skills and knowledge to work effectively with cities, landscapes and communities around the world.

In designing open spaces for the future, you’ll consider historically unknown issues such as urbanisation, sustainability, and climate change in your work – ensuring each project leaves the world looking and feeling that little bit better than before.

Key features

• Work experience
  • Work experience is an essential part of this degree. You’ll complete up to 90 days of work experience consisting of a minimum of 40 days of supervised work in a landscape industry role and 40 days in a design office. Not only will you graduate with theoretical knowledge, professional skills, and industry connections – you’ll have the experience to confidently launch into a career with real impact. There are international options available too.
• A community of experts
  • Our Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program is the longest established, accredited program of its kind in the country. This means, each day you’ll be learning with staff who are both leading researchers and practitioners.  
• Freedom to explore
  • The key features and subject areas of this degree will give you the flexibility to explore landscape architecture through theory and practice – preparing you for a diverse, successful and rewarding career path ahead. You may consider a professional pathway within design communications, natural and cultural systems, professional practice, landscape architectural design and more.

The UNSW Bachelor of Commerce/Media is a double-degree that can be completed in 4 years full-time, or the part-time equivalent.  

Through the Bachelor of Media, you can specialise in public relations and advertising, communications and journalism, screen production, cinema studies, or media studies.  As you hone your expertise, you’ll developing your creative thinking, problem-solving, and communication, and learn to drive change through ethical and persuasive communications.

Through the Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), you’ll learn in the classroom and the boardroom. You’ll gain essential business knowledge and professional experience, and build a digital portfolio, to kick-start your career as you study. The program has been designed alongside industry to ensure you have what it takes to thrive in the careers of the future.

Through this unique combination, you’ll graduate with the confidence to make an impact on the issues, and in the industries you’re passionate about, and the experience to succeed in diverse and innovate careers. 

The UNSW Master of Engineering Science (Sustainable Systems) postgraduate degree is designed to help you specialise and gain a deeper knowledge across a broad range of disciplines. You’ll examine how engineers discover holistic and effective solutions to unsustainable practices in the modern world.

The degree features a range of exciting topics including sustainable systems engineering, industrial ecology, sustainability and environmental sciences, and sustainability management. It also includes a number of targeted courses in renewable energy engineering and energy efficiency and promotes flexible learning as a keystone of the program.

The typical two-year degree, sitting within the UNSW School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, comprises 16 courses. It features complex, open-ended enquiry-based projects as well as many other opportunities to help you become a leader in the field. You’ll develop a systematic approach to problem-solving and learn to plan projects effectively, as well as gaining key skills in order to analyse, interpret and communicate results proficiently.

This degree provides opportunities for continuing professional development, as well as the chance to interact with those at the cutting edge of sustainable systems engineering.   

Do you love using math to solve problems? Are you passionate about technology? This double degree builds the analytical skills needed for better business decisions. Use mathematical analysis to make better financial decisions, combined with knowledge of technological solutions in analytics, programming and digital transformation. Graduate career-ready with professional experiences built into your studies.

Key features

• Two degrees in only four years
• Professional development courses and experiences
• Recognised by industry bodies including Actuaries Institute, and Society of Actuaries
• Accreditation available from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and SAS  
• International work/study opportunities are also available

Electrical Engineering encompasses research, design, development, manufacturing and management of complex systems for many different uses. You'll work on mobile phone infrastructure or electricity wires that power cities.

This degree focuses on design, development, manufacturing and management of complex hardware and software systems, and reliable cost-effective devices. This involves the use of new information and computer-intensive technologies. Key courses include telecommunications, photonics, systems and control, energy systems, microelectronics and signal processing. To get you work ready, you'll apply these skills through 60 days of approved industry training.

The Master of Engineering Science (Energy Systems) is designed to provide a deep, broad range of knowledge about a variety of energy and power systems.

This postgraduate degree offers a wide range of theoretical and applications-based electives and is ideal for electrical engineers wishing to upgrade their skills in the ever-developing energy engineering sector.

The recent introduction and growth of intelligent power supply systems such as smart grids means that energy systems engineering is experiencing unprecedented growth.

This degree will help you develop skills to meet growing need for engineers who can interface renewable energy generation sources with the conventional electricity grid. You'll also understand the importance of electric motors in everything from smartphones to hybrid cars and satellites.

This postgraduate degree features complex, open-ended enquiry-based projects and plenty of opportunities to help you become a leader in the field.

You'll develop a systematic approach to problem-solving and learn to plan projects effectively, as well as gaining key skills in order to analyse, interpret and communicate results proficiently.

The Master of Engineering Science in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology is a 2-year full-time postgraduate degree at Australia’s leading engineering faculty. The degree was developed to provide a deeper understanding of geotechnical theory to solve practical problems in areas including soil mechanics, rock mechanics, slope stability, foundation design, earthworks and dam engineering.

This degree is designed for students who already have a four-year accredited engineering degree and want to broaden their job prospects through cross-training, re-training or specialisation. This postgraduate degree will allow you to meet or maintain professional accreditation standards and provide opportunities for continuing professional development.

You’ll work on a complex, open-ended enquiry-based project to develop your systematic approach to a problem. It will require project planning and the ability to analyse, interpret and communicate results proficiently. The completion of the research provides a pathway towards postgraduate research degrees through the development and demonstration of enquiry-based skills.

If you want to expand your career options in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology or move your existing engineering career in a new direction, the Master of Engineering Science will provide you with advanced skills and knowledge that you can apply to your professional engineering career.

UNSW’s Master of Construction Project Management/Master of Property and Development is a postgraduate double degree that will equip you with advanced, interdisciplinary skills to manage property development and construction processes.

With ever-increasing employment opportunities in both construction management and property development, this degree will set you apart from the crowd. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of how the two areas are interrelated and apply this knowledge to lead complex projects in both fields.

You’ll graduate with the skills, knowledge and experience to confidently achieve development and project outcomes in time, financial viability, risk management, quality, and sustainability – ready to lead projects that benefit both people and the planet.

Key features
The key features and subject areas in your coursework will see you explore theory and practice, preparing you for the careers of the future in project management, construction, property development and investment. These include:

• Construction planning and control
• Construction informatics
• Construction cost and value management
• Risk management and business analytics
• Property performance analysis
• Property valuation
• Property investment and finance
• Property industry application
• Property development and feasibility analysis
• Real property law

Building on UNSW Art & Design’s experience of delivering leading postgraduate education for arts and cultural professionals, the Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership (MCCL) is designed with extensive industry engagement and consultation. With an established and trusted history of producing graduates sought after for their vision, our graduates have secured roles in world-leading cultural institutions such as the Smithsonian, Carriageworks and MAAS.

This degree is for those interested in exploring a wide range of areas across curating and cultural leadership through industry engagement and professional experience with galleries, libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions. We deliver our curriculum in close collaboration with our on-campus UNSW Galleries and a broad range of Australian and international creative industries partners. These opportunities allow you to experience integrated, collaborative and diverse industry experiences throughout your postgraduate studies.

This degree provides pathways for both those with backgrounds in museums, galleries, arts organisations, art history and art practice and those who wish to enter curating or cultural leadership from other professional backgrounds.

The UNSW Master of Applied Linguistics is a two-year full-time postgraduate degree that will prepare you to develop linguistic knowledge for cross-cultural communication in diverse professional, educational and interdisciplinary settings.

You'll graduate equipped to work in a range of fields, from helping migrant communities, to opening global opportunities for others through language acquisition and skilled communication.