1999 Science Handbook - Bachelor of Science/Diploma of Environmental Management

Bachelor of Science/Diploma of Environmental Management

General
Course structure
- Basic structure of double award courses with Chisolm TAFE
Course requirements

General

Berwick campus (Monash and Chisolm TAFE) and Dandenong (Chisolm TAFE)
Course code: to be advised
Course adviser: Dr Tony Patti (Monash), Mr Alan Stevenson (TAFE)
These double awards are offered in conjunction with Chisolm Institute of Technical and Further Education. The degree components of these courses are available by distance education. Only some of the TAFE Diploma components are available in flexible delivery mode at this stage.
The double award courses provide students with the opportunity to combine the applied 'hands on', vocational, practical aspects of TAFE, together with the more theoretical, discipline based courses available from the university. Both courses offer a cost-efficient and time-effective pathway for students to prepare themselves for a science-oriented career in research, industry or commercial settings where a professional level of skill in a number of science disciplines and training in either environmental management or materials science are required. The focus of studies undertaken in the university degree need not be directly linked to the TAFE diploma chosen, thus allowing for a broader science training to be achieved, if desired.

Course structure

Students enrol jointly in the BSc, Gippsland, degree at Monash University (see the Bachelor of Science entry) and either the Diploma of Environmental Management or the Diploma in Applied Science (Materials Engineering) at the Chisolm Institute of TAFE.
In the degree component, major studies may be chosen from the biological sciences (biochemistry, microbiology), chemical sciences, resource/environmental management, applied statistics, mathematics, computing or psychology. The course also provides for students to include some studies from such fields as languages, business, economics, journalism and other humanities and social sciences.

Basic structure of double award courses with Chisolm TAFE

This model shows the general course structure for a full-time student. Students studying the degree component by distance education would normally spend extra time to complete each stage.

	University % of year's work	TAFE % of year's work
Stage 1	25 (2 semester subjects)	75
Stage 2	50 (4 semester subjects)	50
Stage 3	50 (4 semester subjects)	50
Stage 4	100 (8 semester subjects)

Course requirements

In order to qualify for the double awards, students must undertake 108 points of university studies which must be chosen in a manner which satisfy the structural requirements of the double award. The requirements for satisfactory completion of the BSc component are set out below.
Where there is equivalent course content between subjects taken in the TAFE associate diplomas or diploma, students may not take the equivalent subject in the degree.
For both the BSc/DipEnvMgt and the BSc/DipAppSc(MatEng) students will be required to complete subjects with a total credit value of at least 108 points for the degree component, as follows:
(a) SCI1010 and SCI1020 (core subjects) and
(b) a minimum of ninety-six points from the 'Schedule of approved science subjects' including two complete discipline sequences consisting of 12*+18+24 points in one discipline area, across levels one*, two and three respectively (other than computing) and twenty-four points in a second discipline area, including at least twelve points from levels two and three.
The discipline sequences available are detailed under the Bachelor of Science, Gippsland, entry.

*EXEMPTION FROM LEVEL-ONE SUBJECTS MAY BE GRANTED WHERE APPROPRIATE, IF EQUIVALENT SUBJECTS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED FROM THE DIPLOMA COMPONENT OF THE COURSE. STUDENTS WOULD THEN BE REQUIRED TO CHOOSE ALTERNATIVE SUBJECTS TO MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF NINETY-TWO POINTS.