Today's environmental leaders are called upon to understand and tend to the ecological dimensions of environmental issues and their social, cultural, and structural drivers and impacts. The Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management introduces these issues and the disciplinary knowledge related to environmental management.

The Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management offers transformative thinking at local and global scales to prepare graduates to become reflexive leaders, change-agents, and advocates. You'll rigorously, critically, and creatively engage with sociocultural and political-economic causes of, and responses to, today's human-inclusive environmental challenges.

In addition to the programs key focus on conceptual tools, you'll have the opportunity to develop an array of experiential and practical tools to inform ethical and restorative sustainability leadership in professional and change-making contexts.

The program is structured around a transdisciplinary integration and bridging of social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, creative arts, and participatory community and place-based approaches. The experience of moving among diverse knowledge systems empowers you to communicate complex ideas, to nurture personal and collective societal capacities to rethink and reshape the world, and to partner with others in reparative and regenerative ways.

Why study at UNSW?

• Be supported by our diverse, open and inclusive Arts, Design & Architecture community.
• Learn through research-informed teaching
• Prioritise career success – UNSW won the Australian Financial Review’s Most Employable Students Award in 2023.
• Benefit from strong industry links and partnerships
• Access world-class alumni connections
• Join a global top 20 university (QS World University Rankings, 2024)
• Join a community that’s part of the prestigious Group of Eight (Go8) universities