Environmental Science concerns itself with the interactions between humans
and their bio-geological contexts with the aim of re-integrating the two with
the insights offered by both the humanities and the sciences. While the
sciences give us a certain capacity to control environments, environmental
science is at pains to highlight the dependency of our actions on the way we
interpret our world. This means working with the social frameworks that give us
interpretations. In addition to being scientifically literate, environmental
science provides its graduates with understandings of humans as nature
and with intellectual tools to act in the knowledge that we always work in
nature as insiders, never as 'objective' outside observers.
Core studies in systems thinking and interdisciplinary team research techniques
are required in all programs.
Mid-year entry is available for part time MEnvSc by (coursework and research)
only. See also entry for 'Geography' and http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/about/
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