Bachelor of Sustainability

Rules Variation Summary for 2025

Summary of Changes for 2025

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Program of Study

EDCX310 no longer offered

Students who have not yet completed EDCX310 can do any of the following in the units place: GEPL316, GEPL308, GEPL321 or GEPL301

Rules Variation Summary for 2024

Summary of Changes for 2024

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

No changes to this course for 2024

Nil

Rules Variation Summary for 2023

Summary of Changes for 2023

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Program of Study

  • Cultural Heritage Management major - ARPA352 removed and ARPA320 added
  • Water Sustainability major - RSNR302 removed and AGWT300 added.

Note changes to Majors

Rules Variation Summary for 2022

Summary of Changes for 2022

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Program of Study

New Major:

  • Sustainable Development.

Revised majors comprise 48 cps (8 units)

  • Community Engagement and Development
  • Cultural Heritage Management
  • Governance and Regulation
  • Environmental Governance
  • Environmental Resilience
  • Water Sustainability

Note changes to Majors

Rules Variation Summary for 2021

Summary of Changes for 2021

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Program of Study

New major:

  • Water Sustainability

Amended Majors:

Cultural Heritage Management:

  • HIST316 added to listed units
  • HIST373 added to listed units

Environmental Governance:

  • MM320 retitled to Managing Change.

Governance and Regulation:

  • MM320 retitled to Managing Change.

Note unit/unit title changes

Note changes to Majors

Rules Variation Summary for 2020

Summary of Changes for 2020

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Program of Study

Environmental Resilience

  • ENGT237 title change

Note unit title changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2019

Summary of Changes for 2019

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

No changes for 2019.

NIL

Rules Variation Summary for 2018

Summary of Changes for 2018

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

There have been only minor changes to the Bachelor of Sustainability in 2018.

The following units have had title changes:

  • GEPL306 to Water in the Environment
  • GEPL370 to Place-making for People and the Environment
  • MM105 to Communication for Business
  • SOCY319 to Global Societal Challenges

Community Engagement and Development Major

Listed Units:

  • HSSW311 has been deleted

Note unit and/or title changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2017

Summary of Changes for 2017

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Community Engagement and Development Major

Prescribed Units:

  • IDIG110 has been deleted, and replaced with IDIG102

Listed Units:

  • IDIG303 has been deleted
  • IDIG305 has been added

Environmental Governance Major

  • PAIS381 has been deleted

Governance and Regulation Major

Prescribed Units:

  • PEAC102 has been withdrawn and replaced with PEAC100
  • MM105 title changed to Personal Skills for the Workplace

Listed Units:

  • MM322 title changed to Business Ethics

Note unit and/or title changes

Students in the Community Engagement and Development Major who have not completed IDIG110 must complete IDIG102

Students in the Governance and Regulation Major who have not completed PEAC102 must complete PEAC100

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Rules Variation Summary for 2016

Summary of Changes for 2016

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Program of Study – Overview

  • PSYC315 title changed to Environmental Psychology: How to Tame an Ecological Serial Killer

Cultural Heritage Management Major

Prescribed Units:

  • ARPA101 has been withdrawn and replaced with ARPA100 Great Excavations: Key Discoveries in Archaeology
  • ARPA104 title changed to Archaeology: Principles and Practices

Listed Units:

  • ARPA351 has been withdrawn

Environmental Governance Major

  • GEPL315 has been added

Governance and Regulation Major

Listed Units:

  • GEPL315 and MM322 have been added

Note unit and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Rules Variation Summary for 2015

Summary of Changes for 2015

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Program of Study – Overview

  • NR411 code level changed to NR311

Community Engagement and Development Major

Listed Units:

  • EDCX410 code level changed to EDCX310
  • GEPL314 and GEPL352 have been withdrawn
  • PEAC304, PEAC328, PEAC373 and SOCY301 have been added
  • SOCY340 title changed to Foundations of Modernity: An Introduction to Social Theory

Environmental Governance Major

  • RSNR402 code level changed to RSNR302
  • RSNR403 code level changed to RSNR303
  • SOCY340 title changed to Foundations of Modernity: An Introduction to Social Theory

Environmental Resilience Major

  • EM334 title changed to Introduction to GIS and Spatial Thinking
  • RSNR402 code level changed to RSNR302
  • RSNR403 code level changed to RSNR303

Governance and Regulation Major

Listed Units:

  • SOCY340 title changed to Foundations of Modernity: An Introduction to Social Theory

Note unit and/or title changes

Note 400-level units code levels changed to 300-level units

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Rules Variation Summary for 2014

Summary of Changes for 2014

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Community Engagement and Development Major

Listed Units:

  • GEPL380 has been withdrawn

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Cultural Heritage Management Major

Listed Units:

  • HIST330 title changed to Local and Community History

Note unit title change

Environmental Governance Major

  • There are no changes for 2014

Nil

Environmental Resilience Major

Listed Units:

  • ENGT237 title changed to Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Infrastructure

Note unit title change

Governance and Regulation Major

Listed Units:

  • GEPL380 has been withdrawn

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Rules Variation Summary for 2013

Summary of Changes for 2013

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

Community Engagement and Development Major

Prescribed Units:

  • SOCY101 has been withdrawn
  • SOCY110 has been added

Listed Units:

  • IDIG303 title changed to Principles of Indigenous Community Development

Note unit and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Cultural Heritage Management Major

Prescribed units:

  • SOCY101 has been withdrawn
  • SOCY110 has been added

Note unit changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Environmental Governance Major

Prescribed units:

  • SOCY101 has been withdrawn
  • SOCY110 has been added

Listed Units:

  • PAIS381 title changed to Active Citizen – Australian Civics and Democracy
  • SOCY356 title changed to The State, Power and Violence

Note unit and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Environmental Resilience Major

  • There are no changes for 2013

Nil

Governance and Regulation Major

Prescribed units:

  • SOCY101 has been withdrawn
  • SOCY110 has been added

Listed Units:

  • PAIS381 title changed to Active Citizen – Australian Civics and Democracy
  • SOCY356 title changed to The State, Power and Violence

Note unit and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Rules Variation Summary for 2012

Summary of Changes for 2012

Implications for current Bachelor of Sustainability students

This course has been restructured in terms of the majors offered.

  • Social Resilience is reconfigured into three new Majors: Community Engagement and Development; Cultural Heritage Management; Governance and Regulation
  • Environmental and Social Resilience renamed Environmental Governance

Thus, the majors offered from 2012 are:

  • Community Engagement and Development
  • Cultural Heritage Management
  • Governance and Regulation
  • Environmental Resilience
  • Environmental Governance

Program of Study – Overview

Core Units: Credit points changed from 54 to 60 cps

  • ECON329 title changed to Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
  • PSYC315 has been added

Note unit changes

Current students will have the option of completing under the current course rules or transferring to the new rules dependent upon how far a student is into their current program.

New – Community Engagement and Development Major

Prescribed units: Complete the following units –

  • GEPL112, IDIG110, PEAC100, PEAC102, PSYC101, PSYC102, SOCY100, SOCY101

Listed Units: Complete 24 cps from the following units –

  • EDCX410, GEPL314, GEPL321, GEPL352, GEPL370, GEPL380, HSSW311, IDIG303, PSYC200, SOCY340

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2012 course rules.

New – Cultural Heritage Management Major

Prescribed units: Complete the following units –

  • ARPA101, ARPA104, HIST150, HIST151, PSYC101, PSYC102, SOCY100, SOCY101

Listed Units: Complete 24 cps from the following units –

  • ANCH326, ARPA302, ARPA351, ARPA352, GEPL370, HIST330, HIST335, HIST337, HIST338, HIST354

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2012 course rules.

New – Governance and Regulation Major

Prescribed units: Complete the following units –

  • GEPL112, PAIS101, PEAC102, PSYC101, PSYC102, MM105, SOCY100, SOCY101

Listed Units: Complete 24 cps from the following units –

  • GEPL307, GEPL321, GEPL370, GEPL380, MM320, PAIS370, PAIS381, PEAC304, PEAC373, PSYC200, SOCY319, SOCY340, SOCY356

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2012 course rules.

Environmental Resilience Major

Prescribed units: Complete the following units –

  • GEPL111, RSNR110, RSNR120

Listed Units: Complete 30 cps from the following units –

  • EM311, EM334, ENGT237, GEPL306, GEPL307, GEPL308, GEPL311, GEPL341, RSNR402, RSNR403

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2012 course rules.

Environmental and Social Resilience Major renamed Environmental Governance Major

Prescribed units: Complete the following units –

  • GEPL111, GEPL112, PSYC101, PSYC103, RSNR110, RSNR120, SOCY100, SOCY101

Listed Units: Complete 30 cps from the following units –

  • EM311, GEPL307, GEPL308, GEPL311, GEPL321, GEPL341, GEPL370, MM320, PAIS370, PAIS381, PEAC304, PEAC373, PSYC200, RSNR402, RSNR403, SOCY319, SOCY340, SOCY356

Note name change major

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2012 course rules.