Graduate Diploma in Sustainability and Outdoor Education

This one-year graduate programme will help you to gain advanced professional development with a holistic approach in education for sustainability and outdoor education.

The programme combines both theory and practice for advanced professional development for established teachers, outdoor educators and instructors or retraining opportunities for graduates or other degrees. The programme consists of a mixture of compulsory and elective courses, including sustainable practice, journey-based environmental science, contemporary issues in sustainability and outdoor education, resource management, practical skill development and instruction and a course that focuses on the topic of your choosing. This allows you to maintain a broad base to your study, complemented by elective practical and theory courses allowing for personal interests and strengths to be developed. Participation in a number of field trips to locations outside Christchurch and off-campus is required.