Environmental Science in the Bachelor of Environments
Impacts on the Earth’s environment arise from human activities, including land degradation and industrial pollution, as well as naturally occurring phenomena, such as earthquakes, cyclones and tsunamis. Environmental science gives you the skills to identify and understand the causes of environmental problems triggered by human activity. It provides robust, scientifically sound and practical solutions to these problems.
Despite Australia’s status as a first-world economy, scarcity of resources begins to impact on our lives. Environmental science studies teach you how to make efficient use of our dwindling natural resources and how to manage and conserve the environment.
Careers and Graduate Study Opportunities
A major in Environmental Science opens doors to laboratory, outdoor and indoor careers. Environmental scientists draw upon a range of specialisations across a broad field of science disciplines. Specialisations can include studies in hydrogeology, marine and terrestrial ecology, conservation biology and assessing and measuring environmental risk.
The Environmental Science major also provides a pathway to the new Master of Science (Environmental Science). The Master of Science offers training for students who wish to pursue a career in scientific research or enter the workforce armed with both scientific knowledge and industry-relevant business skills.
This program offers a mix of research, science core discipline and professional tools training.
The Master of Science has been designed to advance your entry into the employment market. The degree combines vital job-relevant modules in business and communication skills with core science discipline study.
The Environmental Science stream gives students an understanding of the nature of conflicts surrounding environmental issues, and the capacity to resolve them.
For more information visit www.graduate.science.unimelb.edu.au.
Sample Course Plan – NB. Subjects DO NOT have to be taken in this order 1
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | |||
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
| Natural Environments 880-101 | Reshaping Environments 880-102 | Leaves to Landscapes | Structures and Properties | Environmental Risk
Assessment 600-303 |
Problem-Solving in
Environmental Science (capstone) 600-301 |
| Designing Environments | Constructing Environments | Environments Elective | Ecology | Imaging the Environment | Applied Ecology |
| Governing Environments | Mapping Environments | Environments Elective | Earth Surface Processes | Environments Elective | Hydrogeology |
| Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 |
| Major subjects | 1 This example is provided as a guide only. Subject availability will vary from year to year and there is no guarantee that the listed subject will be available in future years. 2 Breadth examples: Subjects from another faculty, e.g. Music, Education, Law or Arts (Languages), or subjects from a contrasting stream within the Bachelor of Environments (see Breadth Study). |
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FURTHER INFORMATION
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