Bachelor of Social and Environmental Sustainability - Environmental Policy, Governance and Social Justice

University of Canterbury

The BSEnS explores the biggest problems we face globally, from pollution and climate change to world hunger. You will gain meaningful skills including understanding how and why these issues happen, and the actionable steps we need to change these. Help us build a sustainable and equitable future in business, policy, and global society. Study Involve: Courses come from a variety of different subjects - including Environmental Science, Policy, and Marketing - so you can get a full view of the global issues that you are passionate about and learn how you can achieve behaviour change and social action. Use UC’s local and global contacts with entrepreneurs, environmental scientists, tangata whenua, and other change makers. You can take a minor from subjects across Arts, Commerce, Digital Screen, Health, Product Design, Science, Sport, and Youth and Community Leadership. To make just and sustainable decisions for the environment and our wellbeing, we must learn to see how politics, social behaviour, and business economics can both cause and improve issues. Demand for products and services can lead to problems such as pollution, slave labour and workers’ rights, and Indigenous land disputes. In this subject, you will examine global sustainability and social equity issues and learn how to respond with actionable change to communities and businesses. Study Involve: Connect your study to real-world problems through field studies and an internship. Build upon UC’s sustainability goals and use our local and international connections with industry. Courses include a range of areas like political science and law, philosophy and ethics, economics, social enterprise, sociology, and psychology so you can follow your interests in particular issues. Engage with ideas of matauranga Maori (knowledge), Pacific history, decolonisation, and tino rangatiratanga (authority).

Faculty of Arts