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Geography is concerned with the interactions between the physical and human world. It has an active research agenda which provides research training and the foundations for contact with government and private sector research and policy employment. This agenda is based on three broad academic strengths. The first explores the key factors associated with evolving patterns of urban and regional development at a range of scales (metropolitan to local community), activities (housing, farming, services), environments (urban and rural) and contexts (Australia and the Asia Pacific), utilising a variety of innovative methodologies. The second addresses short and long-term changes in climate, vegetation and the physical and the human landscape. The approaches adopted aim to explain the present-day environment and provide essential baseline data for realistic modelling and prediction of future change and its impacts. The third area is concerned with the socio-political structures shaping human interactions with the biosphere and explores the community governance of environmental and ecological change at the local national and international scale. See also entry for 'Environmental science'.
Course
code: 0017 · Course fees: Local students - HECS; international students -
$A12,000 pa · Course director: Kevin O'Connor
The MA by coursework and research is available on Clayton campus, and is
intended for students wishing to obtain the internationally accepted research
degree which testifies to high standards of initiative, independence and
innovation and which, if gained at a sufficient standard, is accepted as a
qualification for admission to the PhD
Note that the department also offers a Master of Environmental Science degree
by coursework and research, details for which are outlined under the
'Environmental science' entry.
The minimum entry requirements are a four-year honours degree in a related discipline, with a grade of H2A or H1, or a masters qualifying with a substantial research component with an overall grade of H2A or above and a distinction or above in the research component, or a qualification deemed to be equivalent. In normal circumstances, no credit will be granted for the coursework component of this degree.
The
MA in Geography by coursework and research entails a thesis of 25,000 to 35,000
words (66 per cent), plus 24 points of coursework chosen from the
fifth-year-level subjects listed below. The MA may also be taken by 100 per
cent research.
Whether a student is allowed to undertake a thesis on a particular topic is
contingent upon the availability of appropriate supervision. Individual
subjects are offered according to the availability of staff and subject to
sufficient enrolments. The research only degree is completed in two years of
full-time work (or the equivalent part-time), while the coursework combined
research degree is completed in one-and-a-half years full-time or three years
part-time.
Fifth-year subjects from other schools may be chosen, subject to approval.
Program
code: 1988 · Program fees: Local students - HECS;
international students - $A12,000 pa · Program director: Fourth-year
coordinator
The MQual with a research component is designed for students with at least a
three-year pass degree who wish to proceed to a masters by research program in
geography. The program is one year full-time or two years part-time.
Applicants must have a pass degree with a major in geography or an allied discipline with at least a credit-level average in the third part (the last year) of the major, or qualifications deemed to be equivalent. Students who have completed relevant subjects at the fourth-year level with grades of credit or above may request at the time of their application for a maximum of 24 points (or 50 per cent) to be credited to the program. Credit will not be granted for subjects for which a degree or an award of any kind has been taken out or towards the core subject or the research project. All requests for credit are subject to the approval of the department and the faculty.
The
program undertaken is the same as that undertaken by fourth-year honours
students in the department but has a slightly more substantial research
component. It consists of the 12-point, one-semester GYM4820 (Seminar in
geography); a further subject or subjects to the value of 12 points chosen, in
normal circumstances, from the fourth-year-level subjects listed below; and a
research project (GYM4960) which is the 24 point project.
Students who complete the Masters qualifying program with a grade of honours 2A
or above (that is, distinction or high distinction level result) are eligible
for admission into the PhD/masters program.
Subjects are offered according to the availability of staff and sufficient enrolments.
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