Sustainable Development - 8132
Program Summary
Faculty: Built Environment
Contact: Built Environment
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Postgraduate
Typical Duration: 1.5 Years
Typical UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC Per Semester: 3
Max UOC Per Semester: 27
Min UOC For Award: 72
Award(s):
Master of The Built Environment (Sustainable Development) (Specialisation)
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Program Description
The Master of the Built Environment (Sustainable Development) at the University of NSW, provides the opportunity to explore these challenges in depth and adapt them to the needs of diverse professional and cultural settings. Australia provides a useful setting in which to explore these issues and at the same time undertake comparative study. Sydney, Australia’s global city, is a hybrid of European, American and Asian influences. The urban economy blends economic development with protection of its biodiversity and scenic environment, together with a concern for social equity and lifestyle quality operating in a distinctive structure of governance that allows a sovereign state within a federation to manage urban and rural development.This program takes a global view and places it in a local context. It provides tools of thinking, analysis and decision making to achieve a sustainable built environment.
In exceptional circumstances other academic qualifications may also be considered.
Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes
Program Structure
- Four core courses totalling 24 UOC
- A research project totalling 18 UoC (in which case an additional core SUSD0006 Research Design is needed) OR
- A Design Studio course totalling 12 UOC
- Three to Six electives totalling 24 to 36 UOC depending on the research or design pathway. Students electing to take a research project rather than a studio course must complete a course in research methods relevant to their project before the final semester of enrolment in that project. This requirement has the effect of reducing the electives for such students from 36 UOC to 24 UOC.
- SUSD0006 Design Research Methods (6 UOC)
- SUSD0008 Graduate Project (18 UOC)
- SUSD0007 Design Studio (12 UOC)
- UDES0001 Urban Design Studio (12 UOC)
- BENV7030 Design for Energy Efficiency (6 UOC)
- BENV7720 Land and Environment Law (6 UOC)
- GEOS9011 Environmental Impact Assess't (6 UOC)
- HPSC5500 Soc Env Policy (6 UOC)
- IEST5001 Frameworks for Env. Mgt. (6 UOC)
- IEST5002 Tools for Env. Management (6 UOC)
- IEST6911 Managing Greenhouse (6 UOC)
- REST0006 Property Development (6 UOC)
- UDES0006 Case Stud in Urb Dev & Design (6 UOC)
All courses are 6UOC unless otherwise stated.
The sequence of courses is governed by pre-requisites for some courses.
Note also that with the agreement of the Program Director suitable post-graduate electives may be selected from other faculties at UNSW, in particular:
- Institute of Enviornmental Studies
- School of Civil and Enviornmental Engineering
- School of Arts and Social Sciences
- School of Biological, Earth and Enviornmental Sciences
Academic Rules
Some advanced standing may be granted for completed or partially completed postgraduate awards from UNSW or from another institution. When considering the granting of advanced standing on the basis of previous postgraduate study at another institution, the program authority will take into account the quality of the institution and the quality, level and content of postgraduate courses previously undertaken.
Fees
Area(s) of Specialisation