Bachelor of Environmental Policy and Planning with Honours
Course details
| NZQF Level | 7 |
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About the course
This is an invitation to nurture a career specialising in urban or regional policy and planning. Gain the capabilities to address local opportunities and global challenges, together with specialist knowledge of the physical and ecological sciences, risk and resilience, the Treaty of Waitangi, resource management and planning law.
Environmental planning is going through a period of accelerated change in response to shifts in society, climate issues, economic priorities and other factors.
This Honours degree blends practical experience and theory to develop your potential in the exciting and fast-evolving fields of urban and regional planning. Learn and grow to enhance the future by shaping our environment.
How you’ll grow
- By developing a sound understanding of the complex relationships between gender, culture, ethnicity and equity – and how they influence environmental policy and planning.
- By spending time with people who seek the permissions to carry out, prevent or modify a wide range of activities in different environmental contexts.
- Crafting various plans and strategies, and making recommendations on what people can do in the environment.
- Learning how to analyse and make evidence-based decisions in multi-disciplinary situations.
- Expand your potential to make a tangible contribution to the processes leading to positive sustainable outcomes.
- Becoming accredited by the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI*).
*The BEPP (Honours) is accredited by the NZPI, providing professional recognition of the degree. This enables you to be a student member of the Institute when you start study, and creates a pathway to full ‘accredited member’ status.
Career opportunities
There is high demand for skilled and visionary professional planners. As a graduate planner with Lincoln University’s accredited degree, you’ll be qualified for environmental or policy planning roles at city, district, regional and central government levels as well as in exciting private sector enterprises.
> I found the field trips and way the courses are applied to real life situations really effective for showing how the theories and processes we discuss in class happen in the real world.
Lisa Arnott
Bachelor of Environmental Policy and Planning with Honours
About the provider
Lincoln University is one of the eight government universities in New Zealand. Established in 1878, it is governed by the Lincoln University Council.
Based in Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand, Lincoln offers a unique experience, a perfect balance of student and academic life and a host of recreation activities around the region.
The institution is rated the 15th best small university in the world by the QS World University Rankings. It is home to a diverse group of nearly 4,500 students who come from more than 80 different countries around the world.
Lincoln graduates have a 6 percent higher employment rate than those from other New Zealand universities and the number of students graduating from Lincoln is higher than the national average.
Students can choose from a wide range of specialist courses from three faculties and one division – the Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce; the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences; the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design; and the University Studies and English Language Division.
Lincoln has dedicated itself towards undertaking meaningful research that makes a globally positive impact. Its sustainable approach and commitment towards handling climate change issues have attracted many postgraduate students studying at the institution.
The university also engages in other land-based research and hosts a range of research centres, including food research and innovation, land, environment and people, wildlife management and conservation, and soil and environmental research.
The university shares ties with leading organisations as well as research centres, which help students gain additional skills and knowledge through practical learning experiences.
The Lincoln University Students' Association (LUSA) is an active student body that governs a variety of clubs and organisations on campus.