Course coordinator: To be advised
Course objectives
The course aims:
* to create an awareness of the importance of environmental science as a scientific discipline;
* to provide students with a comprehensive interdisciplinary course program in environmental sciences;
* to develop analytical and critical evaluation skills as well as the efficient assimilation of essential facts, theories and concepts;
* to introduce students, through field trips and site visits, to field methods, approaches and problem resolution;
* to enable students to read the relevant scientific literature and evaluate critically, environmental topics and issues.
The course is offered on a full-time (three years) or part-time (six years) basis at Clayton campus during the day and is a specifically tailored program for students who want a distinctively identified qualification in the environmental sciences.
Teaching methods will include (i) lectures; (ii) practical classes; (iii) tutorials; (iv) field trips and site visits; (v) assignments.
Course structure
The course will contain five identified streams:
* Chemistry
* Ecology
* Earth sciences
* Geography
* Mathematics and meteorology
First year (48 points)
Students must select three combinations of two, six- point first-year level subject sequences (thirty-six points) from subjects offered by the departments of:
* Mathematics
* Biology
* Chemistry
* Earth Sciences
* Geography
* Remainder: an additional twelve points must be taken from the above subject disciplines or from the Department of Physics (Physics for biosciences), either as two independent six-point subjects, or as another twelve-point sequence.
Second year (48 points)
* Students must select one sixteen-point sequence of second-year level subjects in one of the environmental science streams (as listed above). At least thirty-two points at second-year level (including the sixteen-point sequence) must be selected from environmental Science streams.
* Remainder: student choice but must conform to BSc regulations.
Third year (48 points)
* Students must select at least one twenty-four-point sequence of third-year level subjects from one of the environmental science streams. At least thirty-six points (including the twenty-four-point sequence) must be taken from subjects in the environmental science streams.
Remainder: student choice but must conform to BSc regulations.