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Honours Program - Earth Sciences
Contact information
Coordinator
Associate Professor Kevin Walsh
School of Earth Sciences
Email: kevin.walsh@unimelb.edu.au
Email: kevin.walsh@unimelb.edu.au
Structure
Research
Students must complete 75 points of research.
Coursework
Students must complete 25 points of coursework.
Subject Options
Research component
Students enrol in a total of 75 points of research project across the duration of the Honours program. This is achieved by enrolling in two of the following subject across two consecutive semesters to achieve a total 75 credit points. Students enrol in a Part 1 subject in the first semester and a Part 2 subject in the second semester.
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ERTH40007 | Earth Sciences Research Project Pt1 |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
ERTH40008 | Earth Sciences Research Project Pt1 |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
37.5 |
ERTH40009 | Earth Sciences Research Project Pt1 |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
50 |
ERTH40010 | Earth Sciences Research Project Pt2 |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
ERTH40011 | Earth Sciences Research Project Pt2 |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
37.5 |
ERTH40012 | Earth Sciences Research Project Pt2 |
January (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
50 |
Coursework component
Students select 25 points of coursework from the following subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ATOC90002 | Climate Affairs | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ATOC90004 | Current Topics in Atmospheric Research | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
ATOC90005 | Atmosphere Ocean Interaction and Climate | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ATOC90006 | Climate Analysis and Modelling | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ATOC90007 | Mesoscale Atmospheric Dynamics | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
ATOC90010 | Statistics in Climate Dynamics | February (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
ATOC90011 | Convective Clouds and Storms | Semester 1 (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
ATOC90012 | Advanced Dynamical Meteorology | Semester 1 (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
ATOC90013 | Atmospheric Modelling | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
COMP90059 | Introduction to Python Programming | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ERTH90029 | Environmental Geochemistry | June (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
ERTH90030 | Mineral Exploration Through Cover | Not available in 2017 | 6.25 |
ERTH90031 | Regolith Geoscience | Not available in 2017 | 6.25 |
ERTH90032 | Interpretation of Satellite Images | Summer Term (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
ERTH90033 | Geology from Geophysics | February (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
GEOL90005 | Hydrogeology/Environmental Geochemistry | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL90021 | Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL90027 | Advanced Structural Mapping | Summer Term (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
GEOL90028 | Geochronology and Thermochronology | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
GEOL90029 | Geology of Gold | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
GEOL90030 | Coastal Environmental Geomorphology |
March (Off Campus)
May (Off Campus)
|
6.25 |
GEOL90031 | Ore Reserve Estimation | March (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
GEOL90032 | Introduction to Mineralogy | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
GEOL90033 | Mine Safety and Engineering | April (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
GEOL90034 | Practical Igneous Petrology | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
GEOL90035 | Geodynamics | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
GEOL90036 | Australian Coal Basins | Not available in 2017 | 6.25 |
GEOL90037 | Applied Structural Geology | Not available in 2017 | 6.25 |
GEOL90038 | Igneous Geodynamics and Ore Deposits | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
GEOL90041 | No longer available | ||
GEOL90042 | Ore Textures & Breccias | Not available in 2017 | 6.25 |
GEOL90043 | Fundamentals of Geological CO2 Storage | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
GEOL90044 | Ore Deposit Models | May (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
GEOL90045 | Exploration Skills Mapping | Summer Term (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
GEOL90046 | Environmental Geology Field Techniques | September (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
GEOM90044 | No longer available | ||
ERTH90034 | Advanced Hydrogeology | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
Notes
Honours students are required to attend orientation sessions that commence approximately four weeks before the beginning of the undergraduate semester.
Links
http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/honours/Last updated: 30 January 2024