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Honours Program - Earth Sciences
MajorYear: 2018
Honours Program - Earth Sciences
Contact information
Coordinator
Associate Professor Kevin Walsh
School of Earth Sciences
Email: kevin.walsh@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Honours in Earth Sciences is a one-year program designed to extend students' knowledge and skills through a supervised research project together with advanced coursework in earth sciences.
Admission requirements
In addition to satisfying the Bachelor of Science (Degree with Honours) entry requirements, students are required to have completed stream specific prerequisite.
Honours in Earth Sciences is available as start of year intake and mid year intake, and is dependent on the availability and agreement of an appropriate thesis supervisor.
Intended learning outcomes
The main objective of the honours year is to produce an original research report or thesis based on the project work completed during the honours year.
Last updated: 4 March 2025
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 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ATOC90005 | Atmosphere Ocean Interaction and Climate | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ATOC90006 | Climate Analysis and Modelling | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ATOC90007 | Mesoscale Atmospheric Dynamics | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ATOC90010 | Statistics in Climate Dynamics | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ATOC90011 | Convective Clouds and Storms | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ATOC90012 | Advanced Dynamical Meteorology | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ATOC90013 | Atmospheric Modelling | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| COMP90059 | Introduction to Python Programming | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ERTH90029 | Environmental Geochemistry | Not available in 2018 | 6.25 |
| ERTH90030 | Mineral Exploration Through Cover | Not available in 2018 | 6.25 |
| ERTH90031 | Regolith Geoscience | Not available in 2018 | 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 | No longer available | |
| GEOL90027 | Advanced Structural Mapping | Not available in 2018 | 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 | April (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90031 | Ore Reserve Estimation | Not available in 2018 | 6.25 |
| GEOL90032 | Introduction to Mineralogy | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90033 | Mine Safety and Engineering | July (Online) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90034 | Practical Igneous Petrology | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90035 | Geodynamics | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90036 | Australian Coal Basins | Not available in 2018 | 6.25 |
| GEOL90037 | Applied Structural Geology | Not available in 2018 | 6.25 |
| GEOL90038 | Igneous Geodynamics and Ore Deposits | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90041 | No longer available | ||
| GEOL90042 | Ore Textures & Breccias | Not available in 2018 | 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 | Geographic Information Systems | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| ERTH90034 | Advanced Hydrogeology | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90047 | Basin Evolution & Sequence Stratigraphy | March (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90050 | Field Geology of New Zealand | April (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
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: 4 March 2025