Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Practice
A Level 8 postgraduate certificate for professionals to build sustainability expertise and apply it to drive change and improvement within their workplace, organisation, or sector.
NZ$5,205
inc GST
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Core skills this course teaches
Apply sustainability thinking to workplace contexts
Implement sustainable practice and solutions in your own professional field to effect positive change.
Evaluate sustainability opportunities and challenges
Assess local and global sustainability issues from contemporary, indigenous, and sector-specific viewpoints.
About This Course
This qualification equips professionals from any sector to better understand sustainability through environmental, social, cultural, and economic lenses—including Te Ao Māori and diverse worldviews. With a mix of workplace-focused projects and flexible online learning, you will develop critical strategies for sustainable practice in your professional context and contribute to real-world outcomes across industries.
Course Content
- Sustainability thinking and contemporary challenges
- Environmental, social, cultural and economic perspectives
- Te Ao Māori and indigenous worldviews
- Understanding local and global sustainability issues
- Organisational and community change
- Sustainability policy and practice
- Critical thinking and informed decision-making
- Evaluating sustainability opportunities and challenges
- Applying sustainability within a professional context
- Professional reflection and values-based practice
- Developing practical sustainability strategies
- Improving sustainability outcomes in workplaces and communities
- Core courses: Confronting Sustainability (MSSP800)
- Core courses: Change Agency and Sustainable Practice (MSSP801)
- Elective course: Discipline Specific Special Topic (MSSP802)
Entry Requirements
Build towards these roles
Sustainability AdvisorSustainability Project ManagerPolicy AnalystCommunity Engagement CoordinatorOrganisational Improvement SpecialistPlanning Consultant
Build skills in these industries
BusinessHealthcare
