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About this course
Contact
Course Coordinator - robyn.schofield@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
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Future students:
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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 previously completed EVSC30002, are required to complete this subject. 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 | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ATOC90006 | Climate Analysis and Modelling | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
ATOC90010 | Statistics in Climate Dynamics | March (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
ATOC90011 | Convective Clouds and Storms | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
ATOC90013 | Atmospheric Modelling | Not available in 2019 | 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 |
CHEM90042 | Automatic Chemical Analysis | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
CHEM90043 | Atmospheric Chemistry | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
CHEM90048 | Lasers in Chemistry | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
CHEM90051 | Advanced Mass Spectrometry | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
CHEM90052 | Catalysis | Not available in 2019 | 6.25 |
CHEM90053 | Interfacial Chemistry and Sonochemistry | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
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 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
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 2019 | 6.25 |
ERTH90034 | Advanced Hydrogeology | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
EVSC30002 | Problem Solving in Environmental Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
EVSC90014 | Environmental Risk Assessment | November (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 - Burnley) |
12.5 |
EVSC90026 | Modelling Species Distributions & Niches |
Semester 2 (Online)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
EVSC90032 | Environmental Science Research Project | Year Long (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
EVSC90033 | Air Quality Monitoring | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
FOOD90034 | Sustainable Food Production | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
FRST90015 | Landscape Ecology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENST90044 | Analysing Ecosystems and Their Values | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
FRST90022 | Ecosystem Processes of Water and Soil | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
FRST90025 | Patterns and Processes of Landscape Fire | February (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 |
GEOG30001 | Geomorphology: Catchment to Coast | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG90003 | Integrated River & Catchment 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 | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG90052 | Riverine Landscapes: Hydrology & Ecology | Semester 1 (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 |
HORT90038 | Food Production for Urban Landscapes | Semester 1 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
NRMT90002 | Biosecurity: Managing Invasive Species | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
NRMT90007 | Communities and Ecosystem 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 |
---|---|---|---|
ABPL90337 | Managing Urban Landscapes | June (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
ATOC90002 | Climate Science for Decision-Making | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CVEN90019 | Sustainable Water Resources Systems | 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)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ENST90033 | Climate Change Mitigation | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENST90034 | Adapting to Climate Change | Not available in 2019 | 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 |
GEOG90021 | Conservation and Cultural Environments | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG90025 | East Timor Field Class | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
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)
August (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ENST90043 | 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 Programming |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
COMP90072 | The Art of Scientific Computation |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
EDUC90839 | Science in Schools | Not available in 2019 | 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 |
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)
Semester 2 (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