Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management

If you’re interested in designing and participating in effective environmental management, this diploma is for you. It’s suitable for a wide range of contexts, from government, commerce and industry to voluntary, local and community organisations. You will consider the everyday concerns of environmental protection, natural resource management and rapidly changing environmental legislation and policy, in global and local contexts – gaining the skills you need to unpack the issues and play an active and creative role in the process of improving environmental performance, in all sectors of society.

Key features of the course

• Designed to help you meet the challenges of environmental management in the context of sustainable development.
• Develops your ability to make informed decisions about environmental issues, whether at work, in your community or at home.
• The opportunity to top up to the MSc in Environmental Management in just one more year.

The learning outcomes of this qualification are described in four areas:

• Knowledge and understanding
• Cognitive skills
• Practical and professional skills
• Key skills

Course details

To gain this qualification, you need 120 credits as follows:

60 credits from:

• Making environmental decisions (T891)
• Managing for sustainability (T867)

Or subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued module T863

30 credits from:

• Environmental monitoring and protection (T868)

Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules T878 and TD866

30 credits from:

• Advance your independent learning (YXM830)
• Environmental science challenges (S831)
• Making strategy with systems thinking in practice (TB871)
• Managing change with systems thinking in practice (TB872)
• Project management (M815)
• Technology innovation management (TB801)

Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules D837, S825, T848, T869, T878, T889, TD866, TU811, TU870 and TUXX870

You should note that the University’s unique study rule applies to this qualification. This means that you must include at least 40 credits from OU modules that have not been counted in any other OU qualification that has previously been awarded to you.