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Coordinator
Professor Simon Batterbury
Email: simonpjb@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Structure
100 credit points
This major requires the completion of:
- 12.5 credit points of Level 1 Core subjects
12.5 credit points of Arts Discovery (for a single major) or 12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives (for a double major)*
- 37.5 credit points of Level 2 electives
- 37.5 credit points of Level 3 subjects including
- One of the Level 3 Capstone subjects
*Note:
Please note: Students must undertake an Arts Discovery subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Discovery subject can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.
If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: An Arts Discovery subject and one Level 1 Elective subject for the first major and two Level 1 Elective subjects for the second major.
Level 1 core subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEOG10001 | Famine: The Geography of Scarcity | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 1 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEOG10003 | Global Youth | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEOG20001 | Environment and Society | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20002 | Landscapes and Environmental Change | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20003 | Environmental Politics and Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20008 | Inside the City of Diversity | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20010 | China in Transition | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20011 | Global Inequalities In The Anthropocene | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20012 | Post-Conflict Development and Difference | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20013 | Health Geography | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20015 | Environmental Change & the Human Journey | Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20016 | Fertility, Mortality and Social Change | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG20017 | Spatial Analysis in Geography | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 Capstone subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEOG30007 | China Field Class | Not available in 2025 | 25 |
GEOG30025 | Biogeography and Ecology of Fire | Summer Term (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
GEOG30026 | East Timor Field Class | March (Off Campus) |
12.5 |
GEOG30027 | Local Sites, Global Connections | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG30033 | Arid Australia Field Class | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
Level 3 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEOG30001 | Coastal Landforms and Processes | 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 |
GEOG30023 | Global Climate Change in Context | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG30024 | Africa: Environment, Development, People | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG30028 | Mobile Worlds | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG30029 | Geographies of Migration | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG30030 | Spatial Modelling for Nature and People | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEOG30031 | Law Space: Geographies of Justice | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
Last updated: 11 February 2025