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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

312224 (v.1) Sustainability Management Dissertation 602

Area: Centre of Excellence in Cleaner Production
Credits: 50.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Syllabus: An applied research project into a subject area of the student's choice related to sustainability management. It is preferably linked to the practical sustainability challenges faced by an organisation either in the public, private or civic sector, or focuses on a sustainability issue to explore its implications for various organisations and industry sectors. The research involves investigation of the threats and opportunities posed by sustainability, development of a business case for the organisation to address sustainability, and the development and evaluation of alternative strategies for the organisation to improve its sustainability performance.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 050900 Environmental Studies (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Pass/Fail

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1          
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External