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Graduate Diploma in ScienceInformal specialisationYear: 2021
Geology
Overview
The Graduate Diploma allows students who have completed an undergraduate degree to re-focus or expand their body of knowledge by completing the requirement of one of the undergraduate majors (or equivalent) in the Bachelor of Science not already completed. Students will be required to have completed level 1 prerequisites.
This provides a pathway to the Master of Science Streams.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete the graduate diploma should:
- Demonstrate an independent approach to knowledge that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate theories and methodologies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values;
- Apply critical and analytical skills and methods to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social contexts;
- Act as informed and critically discriminating participants within the community of scholars, as citizens and in the work force;
- Communicate effectively;
- Commit to continuous learning;
- Be proficient in the use of appropriate modern technologies, such as the computer and other information technology systems, for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of data.
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Core participation requirements: Fieldwork
The sites essential to this fieldwork are not wheelchair accessible and require students to traverse broken ground. Visual observation and interpretation of the sites is also an essential component, as is specimen and microscope work.
Last updated: 22 April 2021
Structure
Completion of 125 points:
- 50 points of study at Level 2 or above;
- 50 points of study at Level 3;
- 25 point of study at Level 9
Subject Options
Subject prerequisites: Details of stream specific requirements can be found at the Graduate Diploma in Science entry and participation requirements page.
Level 2
Students should select 50 points of level 2 options to meet the pre-requisites for their level 3 choices.
Both of:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEOL20002 | Structural and Metamorphic Geology | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL20004 | Field Mapping and Sedimentary Geology |
Summer Term (Off Campus)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Plus two of:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ERTH20001 | Dangerous Earth |
Summer Term (Online)
Semester 2 (Online)
|
12.5 |
GEOL20001 | Geology of Southeast Australia | Summer Term (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
Or any level 2 or 3 GEOL or ERTH subject options for which pre-requisites have been met
Level 3
Both of:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEOL30002 | Tectonics & Geodynamics | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL30003 | Sedimentary Geology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Plus two of:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ERTH30001 | Hydrogeology/Environmental Geochemistry | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL30004 | Geochemistry & Petrogenesis | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL30005 | Applied Geophysics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL30006 | Economic Geology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL30007 | Geobiology: Fossils & Environments | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL30009 | Advanced Field Geology | Winter Term (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
SCIE30001 | Science Research Project |
Summer Term (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Level 9
Plus two level 9 subjects selected from listed discipline subjects in the Master of Science (Earth Sciences) program
Links
http://graduate.science.unimelb.edu.au
Last updated: 22 April 2021