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About this course
Contact
Course Coordinator - robyn.schofield@unimelb.edu.au
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Principal Coordinator
Robyn Schofield
Course structure
Students must complete a total of 200 credit points, comprised of:
- Core Subjects (50 points)
- Environmental Science Discipline Subjects (75 - 100 points)
- Broadening Environmental Studies Subjects (up to 25 points)
- Professional Skills (between 25 and 50 points)
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Course structure notes:
- EVSC90017 Global Environmental Change must be taken in the first semester of enrolment
- EVSC90019 Graduate Seminar: Environmental Science must be taken in the final semester of enrolment
- EVSC90031 Industry Project in Environmental Science will be taken in the second year of study
- Outstanding students may replace the Industry Project with EVSC90032 Environmental Science Research Project, depending upon the availability of a suitable project and supervisor.
Subject options
Core Subjects (50 points)
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVSC90017 | Global Environmental Change | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90019 | Graduate Seminar: Environmental Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90031 | Industry Project in EnvironmentalScience | Year Long (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
Environmental Science Discipline Subjects (75 - 100 points)
Students will select between 75 and 100 points of elective subjects. Students who have not completed the equivalent of EVSC30002 must complete EVSC90009. Students who have not completed the equivalent of EVSC30003 must complete EVSC90014. Students may be eligible to take up to 25 points of undergraduate subjects to meet prerequisite requirements. These electives can be chosen from the following subjects:
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATOC30003 | Atmosphere Ocean Interaction | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ATOC30004 | Dynamical Meteorology and Oceanography | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ATOC30008 | Atmospheric Processes and Composition | 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 |
| ATOC90010 | Statistics in Climate Dynamics | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ATOC90011 | Convective Clouds and Storms | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ATOC90013 | Atmospheric Modelling | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| BCMB30002 | Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BTCH90009 | Genomics and Bioinformatics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEM90006 | Analytical & Environmental Chemistry | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEM90007 | Environmental Chemistry | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ECOL30005 | Applied Ecology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90006 | Solid Wastes to Sustainable Resources | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90011 | Energy Efficiency Technology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90027 | Energy for Sustainable Development | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90029 | Water and Waste Water Management | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90030 | Groundwater Hydrology | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ENEN90033 | Solar Energy | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90034 | Environmental Applied Hydrology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90030 | Non-Renewable Energy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ERTH90026 | Climate Modelling and Climate Change | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ERTH90028 | Urban Soils, Substrates and Water | Semester 2 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| ERTH90029 | Environmental Geochemistry | Not available in 2018 | 6.25 |
| ERTH90034 | Advanced Hydrogeology | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| EVSC90009 | Problem Solving in Environmental Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90014 | Environmental Risk Assessment | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90015 | Environmental Impact Assessment | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90020 | Environmental Modelling | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90025 | Water Sensitive Urban Design | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90026 | Modelling Species Distributions & Niches |
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Online)
|
12.5 |
| EVSC90032 | Environmental Science Research Project | Year Long (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOOD90034 | Sustainable Food Production | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90015 | Forest Ecosystems | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90019 | Forest Assessment and Monitoring | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| FRST90022 | Forests and Water | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90025 | Bushfire & Climate | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90026 | Bushfire & Biodiversity | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90032 | Forests, Carbon and Climate Change | Semester 2 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| FRST90034 | Ecological Restoration | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90078 | Conserving and Managing Native Forests | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG30022 | River Ecology & Ecosystem Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG90003 | Integrated River & Catchment Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG90024 | Coastal Landforms and Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG90026 | Global Climate Change In Context | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG90027 | Biogeography and Ecology of Fire | January (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOL30003 | Sedimentary Geology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOL30007 | Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOL90005 | Hydrogeology/Environmental Geochemistry | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOL90043 | Fundamentals of Geological CO2 Storage | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90046 | Environmental Geology Field Techniques | September (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
| GEOM30009 | Imaging the Environment | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90005 | Remote Sensing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| HORT90003 | Plants and the Urban Environment | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| HORT90038 | Food Production for Urban Landscapes | Semester 1 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| NRMT90002 | Management of Plant and Animal Invasions | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| NRMT90007 | Community Natural Resource Management | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| POPH90014 | Epidemiology 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SCIE90014 | Renewable Energy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Broadening Environmental Studies Subjects (up to 25 points)
These electives can be chosen from the following subjects:
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATOC90002 | Climate Affairs | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ECON90016 | Environmental Economics and Strategy | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90028 | Monitoring Environmental Impacts | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90002 | Social Impact Assessment and Evaluation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90004 | Climate Change Politics and Policy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90005 | Environmental Policy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90017 | Environmental Policy Instruments | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90032 | Sustainability and Behaviour Change | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90033 | Climate Change Mitigation | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90034 | Adapting to Climate Change | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90017 | Bushfire Planning & Management | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90030 | Forests in the Asia Pacific Region | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG90007 | China Field Class PG | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
| GEOG90019 | Indigenous Land Management | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| GEOG90020 | Risk Management and Public Participation | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| GEOG90021 | Conservation and Cultural Environments | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| HORT90004 | Plant Production and Establishment | Semester 2 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| HORT90033 | Plants in the Landscape | Semester 1 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| HORT90039 | Green Infrastructure for Liveable Cities | February (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| HORT90046 | Designing Green Roofs and Walls | September (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| MULT90004 | Sustainability Governance and Leadership |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| NRMT90014 | Sustainable Landscapes | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Professional Skills (between 25 and 50 points)
Students will select at least 25 points of the following professional skills elective subjects:
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTL90004 | Insurance Risk Models | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BUSA90403 | Business Tools: Money People & Processes | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90038 | Algorithms and Complexity |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90059 | Introduction to Python Programming | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EDUC90839 | Science in Schools | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ENEN90031 | Quantitative Environmental Modelling | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90032 | Environmental Analysis Tools | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90029 | Analysing Energy Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90008 | Foundations of Spatial Information |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| LING90002 | Presenting Academic Discourse |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| MAST30011 | Graph Theory | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST30025 | Linear Statistical Models | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90007 | Statistics for Research Workers | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90044 | Thinking and Reasoning with Data | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90045 | Systems Modelling and Simulation | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| PHYC30021 | Laboratory and Computational Physics 3 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| SCIE90005 | Ethics and Responsibility in Science | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SCIE90012 | Science Communication | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SCIE90013 | Communication for Research Scientists | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SCIE90017 | Science and Technology Internship |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Last updated: 18 December 2020