School of Sustainable Development And Tourism

School of Sustainable Development and Tourism (SSDT)

Head of School
Associate Professor Dr(Mrs). Prabha RAMSEOOK MUNHURRUN
Departments

Overview

The School of Sustainable Development and Tourism is the first school in Mauritius dedicated to fostering education for sustainable development, with a focus on exploring real world solutions to environmental, economic and social challenges. Since its creation in 2008, the school has been a key player at the national level, offering multi-disciplinary courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including doctoral studies. Promoting education to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and meeting the United Nations 2030 agenda have always been fundamental through our various courses in diverse areas of interest; Tourism, Climate Change, Disaster Management, Sustainability, Communication and Public Relation, Applied Social Sciences, Counselling, Occupational Safety and Health and Urban Planning among others. Through these courses, the school also addresses some of the most critical challenges of our time.
 
The School has two main departments; Department of Tourism, Leisure and Services (DTLS) and the Department of Environment, Science and Social Sustainability (DESSS). Lectures are serviced by both full time and part time lecturers. Through our student centred approach, our faculty staff cover the headline issues which our society and environment are facing today. Our courses help to promote our students as global citizens and future employees with the desired soft and technical skills. The school has successfully maintained, for the last twelve years, the IOSH-UK accreditation for its programme in Occupational Safety and Health, and looks ahead with confidence of achieving other international recognition along with our local and international collaborators/partners. Besides our teaching and learning agenda, our research-oriented faculty members have increasingly been securing funded projects to strengthen our research mission. The school promisingly endeavors to continuously enhance its research publication portfolio through collaborative applied research initiatives.

Programmes

Free
All Levels

MA Educational Leadership and Management

This Masters of Arts in Educational Leadership & Management has …

Free

MA Educational Leadership and Management

15 Lessons
All Levels
What you'll learn
After successful completion of the course, students will have career opportunities arising in the administrative areas of the educational sector, in both public and private spheres.
Free

BSc (Hons) Sustainable Urban Planning

29 Lessons
What you'll learn
Enable students to have a coherent understanding of urbanism and the built environment
Combine a sound theoretical foundation with an awareness of practice in the field of planning
Gain knowledge about the various roles and responsibilities of urban professionals in society
Understand sustainability issues and adopt inter-disciplinary approaches
Free

MSc Sustainability for Business, Society and Environment

With an expanding global population, countries, both developed and developing …

Free

MSc Sustainability for Business, Society and Environment

16 Lessons
3 hours
What you'll learn
Offer the opportunity to gather professional and technical skills required to appreciate sustainability issues and related global debates.
Develop an understanding of the process of economic, social and environmental policy development, implementation and enforcement.
Provide a firm foundation and practical research to allow reflections towards sustainable development protection and conservation.
Enable students to embed new environmental management strategies to ensure project sustainability.
Assist students in developing their critical skills to asses, evaluate and apply the notions of sustainability in their daily life (personal, organization, community, country)
Free

MSc Tourism Management and Marketing

The MSc in Tourism Management and Marketing aims at developing …

Free

MSc Tourism Management and Marketing

6 Lessons
3 hours
What you'll learn
To provide an understanding of tourism concepts and marketing related issues.
To demonstrate a critical understanding of the different conceptual, empirical and methodological development of tourism management and marketing.
To demonstrate knowledge of tourism trends in a local and global context.
To analyse marketing strategies and opportunities in the tourism industry.
To encourage decision-making skills in a tourism business environment and ensure a balance between the acquisition of conceptual and practical knowledge.
To enable students to undertake research in the field of tourism and marketing.
Free

MSc Hotel Management

With the rapid development of the tourism industry worldwide and …

Free

MSc Hotel Management

12 Lessons
3 hours
What you'll learn
Equip students with the core knowledge and theoretical underpinnings of international tourism management
Extend their understanding of the nature of international tourism flows and the role of government and stakeholders
Develop skills and knowledge necessary in decision making at managerial level
Develop students’ ability to think critically, appraise and apply relevant academic models to the international tourism industry
Develop a grounding in postgraduate research practices, theoretical approaches and debates in international tourism management
Free
All Levels

MSc International Tourism Management

The rapidly changing tourism environment and globalisation requires that professionals …

Free

MSc International Tourism Management

13 Lessons
3 hours
All Levels
What you'll learn
Equip students with the core knowledge and theoretical underpinnings of international tourism management
Extend their understanding of the nature of international tourism flows and the role of government and stakeholders
Develop skills and knowledge necessary in decision making at managerial level
Develop students’ ability to think critically, appraise and apply relevant academic models to the international tourism industry
Develop a grounding in postgraduate research practices, theoretical approaches and debates in international tourism management

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