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About this course
Contact
Course Coordinator - robyn.schofield@unimelb.edu.au
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Future students:
- Further information: http://science.unimelb.edu.au/
Principal Coordinator
Robyn Schofield
Course structure
Students must complete a total of 200 credit points, comprised of:
- Core Subjects (62.5 credits points)
- Environmental Science Discipline Subjects (87.5 to 112.5 points)
- Broadening Environmental Studies Subjects (up to 25 points)
- Professional Skills (between 25 and 37.5 points)
Course structure notes:
- EVSC90017 Global Environmental Change and EVSC90014 Environmental Risk Assessment must be taken in the first year of enrolment.
- EVSC90019 Graduate Seminar: Environmental Science and Industry Project in EnvironmentalSci Pt1 & Pt2 will be taken in the second year of study.
- Outstanding students may replace the Industry Project with EVSC90034 Environmental Sci. Research Project Pt 1 and EVSC90035 Environmental Sci. Research Project Pt 2 depending upon the availability of a suitable project and supervisor.
Subject options
Core Subjects (62.5 points)
Year 1: (25 credit points)
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVSC90017 | Global Environmental Change | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90014 | Environmental Risk Assessment | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Year 2: (37.5 points)
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVSC90019 | Graduate Seminar: Environmental Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AND
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVSC90034 | Environmental Sci. Research Project Pt 1 |
Semester 1 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| EVSC90035 | Environmental Sci. Research Project Pt 2 |
Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
OR
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVSC90036 | Industry Project in EnvironmentalSci Pt1 |
Semester 1 (Extended) (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| EVSC90037 | Industry Project in EnvironmentalSci Pt2 |
Semester 1 (Early-Start) (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Environmental Science Discipline Subjects (between 87.5 to 112.5 credit points)
Students will select between 87.5 and 112.5 points of elective subjects. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABPL90086 | Environmental Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ANSC90001 | Wildlife Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ATOC30003 | Tropical Meteorology and Climate | 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 |
| ATOC90010 | Statistics in Climate Dynamics | Semester 1 (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
| ATOC90011 | Convective Clouds and Storms | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ATOC90013 | Atmospheric Modelling | Semester 1 (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
| ATOC90016 | Weather and Climate Extremes | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ATOC90017 | Advanced Past Climates | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BCMB30002 | Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BIOL90002 | Biometry | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BOTA30004 | Vegetation Management and Conservation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BOTA90005 | Flora of Victoria | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BTCH90009 | Genomics and Bioinformatics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEM90006 | Analytical & Environmental Chemistry | Semester 2 (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
| CHEM90007 | Environmental Chemistry | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEM90041 | Exciton Science | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| CHEM90043 | Atmospheric Chemistry | Not available in 2023 | 6.25 |
| CHEM90047 | Organic Electronics | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| CHEM90048 | Lasers in Chemistry | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| CHEM90051 | Advanced Mass Spectrometry | Not available in 2023 | 6.25 |
| CHEM90052 | Catalysis | Not available in 2023 | 6.25 |
| CHEM90053 | Interfacial Chemistry and Sonochemistry | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| CHEM90064 | Advanced Environmental Analysis | Not available in 2023 | 6.25 |
| CHEM90065 | Advanced NMR Spectroscopy | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
| CHEN90011 | Wastewater and Environmental Remediation | Semester 2 (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 |
| ENEN90031 | Quantitative Environmental Modelling | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90033 | Solar Energy | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90038 | Engineering Hydrology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90030 | Non-Renewable Energy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST30004 | Nature, Conservation and Society | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90044 | Analysing Ecosystems and Their Values | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90045 | Spatial Tools for Ecosystem Management | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ERTH90026 | Climate Modelling and Climate Change | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ERTH90028 | Urban Soils, Substrates and Water | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| ERTH90029 | Environmental Geochemistry | Not available in 2023 | 6.25 |
| ERTH90034 | Advanced Hydrogeology | Not available in 2023 | 6.25 |
| ERTH90062 | Introduction to Archaeological Science | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| EVSC30006 | Ecology of Urban Landscapes | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90015 | Environmental Impact Assessment | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90020 | Environmental Modelling | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90025 | Water Sensitive Urban Design | February (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90026 | Modelling Species Distributions & Niches | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| EVSC90033 | Air Quality Monitoring | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| FOOD90034 | Sustainable Food Production | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
| FRST90015 | Landscape Ecology | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90022 | Ecosystem Processes of Water and Soil | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90025 | Patterns and Processes of Landscape Fire | February (Online) |
12.5 |
| FRST90032 | Forests, Carbon and Climate Change | Semester 2 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| FRST90034 | Ecological Restoration | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90078 | Conserving and Managing Native Forests | Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG30001 | Geomorphology: Catchment to Coast | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG30019 | Sustainable Development | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG30021 | The Disaster Resilient City | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG90003 | Integrated River & Catchment Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG90026 | Global Climate Change In Context | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| GEOG90027 | Biogeography and Ecology of Fire | January (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
| GEOG90052 | Riverine Landscapes: Hydrology & Ecology | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| GEOL30002 | Tectonics and Structural Geology | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOL30003 | Sedimentary Geology and Hydrogeology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOL30007 | Geobiology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOL90005 | Hydrogeology/Environmental Geochemistry | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOL90043 | Fundamentals of Geological CO2 Storage | Not available in 2023 | 6.25 |
| GEOL90046 | Environmental Geology Field Techniques | August (Off Campus) |
6.25 |
| GEOL90051 | Basin Structure and Stratigraphy | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| HORT90038 | Food Production for Urban Landscapes | Semester 1 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| NRMT90002 | Biosecurity: Managing Invasive Species | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| NRMT90007 | Communities and Ecosystem Management | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| POPH90014 | Epidemiology 1 |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| SCIE90014 | Renewable Energy | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABPL90022 | Healthy Communities | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90064 | Urban Sustainability and Climate Change | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90337 | Managing Urban Landscapes | June (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| ATOC90002 | Climate Science for Decision-Making | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ECON90016 | Environmental Economics and Strategy | Not available in 2023 | 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 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90032 | Sustainability and Behaviour Change |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ENST90033 | Climate Change Mitigation | February (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENST90034 | Adapting to Climate Change | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FRST90017 | Bushfire Planning & Management | September (Online) |
12.5 |
| FRST90030 | Forests in the Asia Pacific Region | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| GEOG90007 | China Field Class PG | Not available in 2023 | 25 |
| GEOG90021 | Conservation and Cultural Environments | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOG90025 | East Timor Field Class | May (Off Campus) |
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 | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MULT90004 | Environmental Sustainability |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ENST90043 | Sustainable Landscapes | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MGMT90165 | Social Entrepreneurship | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90041 | Energy, Emissions and Pollution Control | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Professional Skills (between 25 and 37.5 credit 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 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90059 | Introduction to Programming |
Summer Term (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - 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 2023 | 12.5 |
| ENEN90032 | Environmental Analysis Tools | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90029 | Analysing Energy Systems | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM30009 | Imaging the Environment | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90005 | Remote Sensing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90008 | Spatial Data Management |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| LING90002 | Presenting Academic Discourse |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Online)
|
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 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SCIE90012 | Science Communication | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SCIE90017 | Science and Technology Internship |
Summer Term (Off Campus)
Semester 1 (Off Campus)
Semester 2 (Off Campus)
|
12.5 |
| CHEN90031 | Sustainable Processing | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN30001 | Reactors and Catalysis | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90007 | Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR30002 | Fluid Mechanics |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| SCIE90034 | Communicating Science at Work | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| AGRI90075 | Research Methods For Life Sciences | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90010 | Sustainable Minerals and Recycling | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90040 | Sustainable Food Processing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Last updated: 10 November 2023