UNSW Undergraduate Courses

Undergraduate
University of New South Wales

The Centre for Social Impact's undergraduate major and subjects at UNSW are for anyone interested in creating social change.

Dive into a major designed for visionaries who recognise that concerns for sustainability and social impact are essential to business success. In a world facing urgent challenges around climate change, environmental degradation, and social inequality, this major showcases the business advantage of aligning concerns for people, planet, and profit.

Discover how innovative companies are building understanding of their effects on the environment and society, and are leveraging this understanding to catalyse business transformation, ignite innovation and fuel growth. Engage with immersive, real-world challenges that hone your ability to champion a business future that flourishes by being both greener and more equitable.

This major doesn't just prepare you for specialised roles in sustainability and social impact. The skills developed are highly demanded across a spectrum of career paths, from accounting and financial management, to consulting, management investment banking, assurance, and roles within the government and not-for-profit sectors.

UG Major: Business Sustainability and Social Impact

Do you want to lead change and implement social innovations? Would you like to find ways to address complex social problems?

COMM2000: Creating Social Change - From Innovation to Impact

This course is for aspiring change agents across all sectors, including business, not-for-profit and government. You will develop practical skills to lead complex systems to create better social outcomes. We explore the issues that policymakers, industry leaders and social service providers grapple with every day, such as inequality, place-based disadvantage, mental health, homelessness, and human rights. We will introduce models for systems change, and social innovation.

The course will equip you with a broad understanding of social systems and the keys to initiating and sustaining positive social change. Through a range of local and global case studies, you will acquire the skills to identify and analyse stakeholders and structural elements in the social challenges that shape society.

Join us to become a catalyst for change and make a tangible impact on society!

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COMM3030 Social Entrepreneurship Practicum is a Work Integrated Learning course designed to integrate theory with experiential practice and involve authentic and purposeful engagement with partner organisations. It enables undergraduate students to develop professional skills while working in a team on a real social entrepreneurship project.

Students work with partners from industry, social enterprises, not-for-profits and foundations to develop and conduct a variety of applied projects in different areas of social entrepreneurship.

In doing so, they have the opportunity to develop their professional skills, including critical thinking, communication, teamwork, research, innovation and creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership and many others.

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COMM3001: Leading Change for Sustainability and Social Impact is a course designed for future leaders who are passionate about creating positive social and environmental change. Your ideas and passion for sustainability and social impact are just the first step to professional success. You need skills in leadership, creativity, systems thinking, communication and models for cultural change so that you can influence key decision-makers, build networks and make your idea a reality.

COMM3001: Leading Change for Sustainability and Social Impact

Meet a CSI UNSW student

Maddii Maguire has used her knowledge from completing COMM2000: Creating Social Change - From Innovation to Impact, to progress a community project and generate local impact.

Read Maddii's story