Bachelor of Social and Environmental Sustainability - Sustainable Business, Enterprise and Economics

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. With businesses expanding across the globe, we need more people with the skills to help manage economic growth with environmental issues like pollution and use of natural resources. This major covers everything from sustainable products, production, shipping, and marketing, through to influencing changes in customer spending habits. Study Involve: Get hands-on experience creating sustainable business solutions through an internship. Learn business basics of management, economics, accounting, marketing, or communications with how these affect our views and treatment of the environment. Opportunities to create your own business with UC's mentors, business connections, and a Makerspace. Customisable major so you can follow your interests in particular sustainability issues and industry.

Faculty of Arts