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Tailored Specialisation
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Kathryn Williams, Office for Environmental Programs
Office for Environmental Programs
Ground Floor, Walter Boas Building (building 163)
Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au
Structure
Students completing a tailored specialisation in the Master of Environment will complete two core subjects in Sustainability, Leadership and Governance, and Interdisciplinarity and the Environment. Students will choose the remainder of subjects from an approved subject list in consultation with an academic advisor. Additional subjects may be chosen depending on academic background. Please note that prerequisites may apply.
Subject Options
Core Subjects
Students must complete the following core subjects:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MULT90004 | Environmental Sustainability |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
MULT90005 | Partnerships for Sustainable Futures |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Elective Subjects
Students should make up the remainder of their award by selecting electives from the following list, sorted by discipline/faculty in consultation, with an academic advisor. Additional subjects may be chosen depending on academic background. Please note that prerequisites may apply.
Architecture Building and Planning
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ABPL90009 | Participation and Negotiation | No longer available | |
ABPL90016 | Asset Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90022 | Healthy Communities | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90030 | Project Evaluation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90032 | Building Services and Operations | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90049 | |||
ABPL90056 | Urban Transport Politics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90064 | Urban Sustainability and Climate Change | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90065 | Managing Global City Regions | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90072 | Landscape Studio 5:Sustainable Urbanism |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
ABPL90075 | Urban and Landscape Heritage | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90077 | Introduction to Transport and Land Use | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90078 | Contemporary Landscape Theory | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90086 | Environmental Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90090 | Public Transport Network Planning | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90120 | Building Sustainability | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
ABPL90130 | Planning Law & Statutory Planning | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90132 | Urban Coding and Design | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90135 | Analytical Methods | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90152 | Bower Studio - Community Development | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90153 | Complex Building Energy Modelling | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90246 | The Economies of Cities and Regions | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90272 | Regenerative Sustainability | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
ABPL90279 | Cities Without Slums | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90283 | Ecology for Design | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90303 | Facilities for Social Sustainability | No longer available | |
ABPL90315 | Participatory Planning | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90309 | Supply Chains in Construction | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90310 | Construction Industry and Environment | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
ABPL90320 | Building Resilient Settlements | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90326 | Technological Innovation | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
ABPL90329 | Construction Policy | No longer available | |
ABPL90341 | Urban Environmental Policy and Planning | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Arts
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
DEVT90001 | Development Project Management & Design | February (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DEVT90002 | Internship in Development |
Semester 1 (Off Campus)
Semester 2 (Off Campus)
|
12.5 |
DEVT90008 | International Internship in Development | No longer available | |
DEVT90009 | Development Theories | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DEVT90039 | Civil Society, NGOs and the State | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DEVT90040 | Gender Issues in Development | July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DEVT90041 | Development Research Design & Assessment | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENST90005 | Environmental Policy | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PHIL90015 | Issues in Professional & Applied Ethics | No longer available | |
POLS40004 | Justice, Democracy and Difference | No longer available | |
POLS90015 | Business and Government | No longer available | |
POLS90016 | International Organisations | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
PPMN40002 | |||
SOCI90003 | Comparative Social Policy | September (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI90004 | Contemporary Social Problems | April (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PPMN90031 | Public Policy Lobbying Strategies | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PPMN90040 |
Economics
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ACCT90031 | Sustainability Reporting & Management | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON40012 | Development Economics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
ECON90002 | Microeconomics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON90016 | Environmental Economics and Strategy | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
MGMT90018 | Managing Behaviour in Organisations |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
MGMT90022 | Managing Organisational Change | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
MGMT90030 | Managing Innovation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MGMT90031 | Project Management |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
MGMT90165 | Social Entrepreneurship | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MKTG90009 | Advertising and Communications Strategy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MGMT90208 | Sustainable Business Practices | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Education
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
EDUC90006 | Environmental Education | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EDUC90729 | Conducting Educational Research | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
EDUC90638 | Education, Knowledge and Power | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EDUC90626 | Transforming Sustainability Education | No longer available |
Engineering
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CVEN90027 | Geotechnical Applications | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENEN90005 | Environmental Management ISO 14000 | Semester 1 (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 |
ENEN90014 | Sustainable Buildings | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENEN90027 | Energy for Sustainable Development | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENEN90028 | Monitoring Environmental Impacts | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENEN90029 | Water and Waste Water Management | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENEN90031 | Quantitative Environmental Modelling | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENEN90032 | Environmental Analysis Tools | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENEN90033 | Solar Energy | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENGR90028 | Introduction to Energy Systems | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOM90005 | Remote Sensing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOM90006 | Spatial Data Analytics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOM90008 | Spatial Data Management |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ENEN90037 | International River Basin Management | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CVEN90019 | Sustainable Water Resources Systems | No longer available |
Law
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
LAWS70068 | Environmental Law | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70141 | Energy Regulation and the Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70149 | Construction Risk | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70161 | International Petroleum Transactions | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70185 | Water Law & Natural Resources Management | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70205 | Project Finance | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70219 | International Environmental Law | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70236 | Indigenous Peoples, Land & Resource Law | No longer available | |
LAWS70239 | Payment Matters in Construction Projects | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70293 | Climate Change Law | March (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70314 | Principles of Construction Law |
February (Off Campus)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70386 | Environmental Rights | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70217 | Fundamentals of the Common Law |
March (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
August (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
August (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70452 | Human Rights and Climate Change | December (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70093 | International Law and Development | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70423 | International Mineral Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70395 | |||
LAWS70398 | Law of the Sea | October (Online) |
12.5 |
LAWS70239 | Payment Matters in Construction Projects | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70041 | |||
LAWS70349 | Planning and Development Law | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70314 | Principles of Construction Law |
February (Off Campus)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70205 | Project Finance | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70330 | |||
LAWS70464 | Toxics, Waste and Contamination Law | No longer available | |
LAWS70466 | |||
LAWS70185 | Water Law & Natural Resources Management | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70314 | Principles of Construction Law |
February (Off Campus)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70268 |
Public Health
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
POPH90020 | Health Promotion | September (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90058 | Health Program Evaluation 1 | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90066 | Women and Global Health | September (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90071 | Indigenous Health and History | No longer available | |
POPH90086 | Global Child Health | No longer available | |
POPH90087 | Global Challenges in Adolescent Health | No longer available | |
POPH90088 | Disability and Global Development | September (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90090 | Health Program Evaluation 2 | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90093 | Economic Evaluation 1 | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90095 | Economic Evaluation 2 | February (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90112 | Infectious Disease Epidemiology | April (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90131 | Primary Health Care: applied principles | July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90137 | Primary Health Care, Jamkhed, India | November (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
POPH90144 | Regression Methods in Health Research | July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90145 | Survival Analysis & Regression for Rates | September (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90189 | Health Program Design & Implementation | February (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90190 | HIV and AIDS:An Evolving Global Response | No longer available | |
POPH90191 | Practice of Public Health Leadership | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
POPH90200 | Advanced Qualitative Health Research | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90201 | Community Engagement for Health Impact | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90205 | Social Determinants of Health Inequality | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90206 | Health Policy | March (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90207 | |||
POPH90209 | Comparative Health Systems | August (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90218 | Public Health Leadership and Management | March (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90227 | Public Health in Practice | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90229 | Health Economics 2 | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90230 | Planetary and Global Health | July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90231 | Qualitative Research in Public Health |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (Online)
|
12.5 |
ENST90019 | Consumerism and the Growth Economy | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
POPH90242 | Epidemiology 2 | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90243 | Epidemiology in Practice | February (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90013 | Biostatistics |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
POPH90094 | Health Economics 1 | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90232 | Indigenous Health: From Data to Practice | No longer available |
Office for Environmental Programs (Cross-faculty)
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ENST90017 | Environmental Policy Instruments | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
ENST90019 | Consumerism and the Growth Economy | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
ENST90006 | Environmental Research Review (12.5) |
Summer Term (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ENST90007 | Environmental Research Project (25) |
Summer Term (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
25 |
ENST90024 | Environmental Research Project - 25 Long | No longer available | |
ENST90016 | Environmental Research Project (50) |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
50 |
ENST70001 | Environmental Research Proj (50 Long) | No longer available | |
ENST90025 | Environmental Industry Research (25) |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
25 |
ENST90026 | Environmental Industry Research: 25 Long | No longer available | |
ENST90020 | Environmental Industry Research (50) |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
50 |
ENST70002 | Environmental Industry Research: 50 Long | No longer available | |
ENST90032 | Sustainability and Behaviour Change |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ENST90034 | Adapting to Climate Change | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Science
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ATOC90002 | Climate Science for Decision-Making | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ATOC90004 | Current Topics in Climate Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ATOC90007 | Mesoscale Atmospheric Dynamics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
BIOL90002 | Biometry | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BOTA90005 | Flora of Victoria | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CHEM90007 | Environmental Chemistry | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CHEM90008 | Advanced Spectroscopy | No longer available | |
EVSC90014 | Environmental Risk Assessment | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EVSC90016 | |||
EVSC90019 | Graduate Seminar: Environmental Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EVSC90020 | Environmental Modelling | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOL90005 | Hydrogeology/Environmental Geochemistry | February (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 |
MULT90012 | Industry Project in Science | No longer available | |
DEVT90003 | The Political Ecology of Development | Semester 1 (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 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENST90023 | Managing Innovation and Change | No longer available | |
EVSC90015 | Environmental Impact Assessment | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
FRST90015 | Landscape Ecology | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
FRST90020 | |||
FRST90026 | Bushfire & Biodiversity | No longer available | |
FRST90029 | International Forest Policy | No longer available | |
FRST90030 | Forests in the Asia Pacific Region | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
FRST90031 | Timber, Sustainable & Renewable Material | No longer available | |
FRST90032 | Forests, Carbon and Climate Change | Semester 2 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
FRST90034 | Ecological Restoration | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
FRST90035 | Forest Internship Project | No longer available | |
GEOG90003 | Integrated River & Catchment Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG90007 | China Field Class PG | Not available in 2023 | 25 |
HORT90003 | Plants and the Urban Environment | No longer available | |
HORT90004 | Plant Production and Establishment | Semester 2 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
HORT90006 | Garden History & Design | No longer available | |
HORT90007 | |||
HORT90011 | Therapeutic Landscapes | September (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
HORT90038 | Food Production for Urban Landscapes | Semester 1 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
MAST40001 | |||
NRMT90002 | Biosecurity: Managing Invasive Species | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
NRMT90003 | Social Research Methods | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
NRMT90007 | Communities and Ecosystem Management | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
NRMT90014 | Sustainable Landscapes | No longer available | |
HORT90046 | Designing Green Roofs and Walls | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
GEOG90020 | Participatory Risk Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENST90033 | Climate Change Mitigation | February (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AGRI90068 | |||
GEOG90021 | Conservation and Cultural Environments | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG90019 | Indigenous Land Management | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
HORT90039 | Green Infrastructure for Liveable Cities | February (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
FRST90025 | Patterns and Processes of Landscape Fire | February (Online) |
12.5 |
EVSC90001 | Global Environment and Sustainability | No longer available | |
FRST90022 | Ecosystem Processes of Water and Soil | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Veterinary and Agricultural Science
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
AGRI90057 | Climate Change:Agric.Impacts&Adaptation | July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AGRI90066 | Soil Science and Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AGRI90068 | |||
FOOD90024 | Securing Sufficient and Healthy Food | No longer available | |
FOOD90026 | The Politics of Food | No longer available | |
FOOD90027 | Nutrition Politics and Policy | No longer available | |
FOOD90033 | Sustainable Food: Policy and Practice | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
FOOD90034 | Sustainable Food Production | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
NRMT40001 | |||
NRMT90017 | Leadership | No longer available | |
VETS90016 | Wildlife Management | No longer available |
Last updated: 30 January 2024