Course Aims

This course aims to develop the specialist knowledge, skills and competencies required to succeed within a sustainable business landscape and to promote actions that can affect positive change that benefits the environment and society.

Course specific employability skills

The development of employability skills is a key aspect of your ongoing personal and professional development, and the course is designed to facilitate the enhancement of a range of attributes and skills that can be transferred into situations beyond study. In addition, these employability skills have been selected as they respond to various trends that are likely to impact your career in the long term, including globalisation, demographic change, environmental sustainability, urbanisation, increasing inequality, political uncertainty and technological change.

‘Sustainable practice’ is a fundamental aspect of the course, and developing skills and attributes within this area allows you to take an informed, justified, approach within your personal and professional practice. We recognise that sustainability as a concept evolves, and our understanding of sustainable practice naturally develops over-time. Still we recognise that sustainable practice is a ‘mindset’ that promotes a proactive approach to sustainability challenges. Sustainable practice includes the following skills and attributes:

Sustainability literacy - The knowledge, skills and competencies required to contribute to a more sustainable future. Included within this is an appreciation of alternative sustainable business models and responsible corporate practices.
Transformative social-environmental justice - Understanding the relationship between human acts that harm the environment and acts which are deeply rooted in social conflict (socio-environmental issues), and the ‘deeper structures of society’ that require a transformation to achieve a sustainable future.

Career/future study opportunities

This course is designed to support and develop your understanding within the theory and practice of contemporary sustainable business. By choosing this course, you will study the various theories, frameworks, and lenses via which you can understand this subject, with a view to supporting existing businesses, or creating your own start-up firms.

By situating the programme at the intersection of theory and practice, you can choose your own approach to this subject either as a theorist or practitioner, leading to many future career options, including:

The ability to operate in an Executive capacity in your own sustainable business or to operate in a sustainable fashion in a larger organisation.
Knowledge to develop your own business and take innovative and sustainable, propositions to market.
The capability to identify, attract and develop collaborative teams for new business opportunities.