Course
code: 2702 + Course fees: Local students -- RTS HECS-exempt places
available; international students -- $A13,500 pa + Coordinator: Associate
Professor Frank Fisher
The degree provides a primary insight into the nature of the environmental
problematique through core coursework units, a small number of elective
units complementary to candidates' prior studies and an extensive
interdisciplinary research experience involving both team based and individual
reporting. It has been designed to (a) broaden and deepen students' existing
knowledge through a one-and-a-half-year program in environmental science;
provide intensive training in environmental -- ie interdisciplinary as well
as disciplinary -- research; (b) enable them to apply their disciplinary
training in the enhanced setting of a substantial interdisciplinary research
project; and (c) gain an understanding of the politics or social construction
of environmental understanding and its generation through research.
Candidates must have either an honours degree in any discipline with a minimum H2A grade or equivalent, or a Masters Qualifying in Environmental Science with a research component with an average grade of H2A or above from Monash University or the equivalent, with a minimum grade of H2A in the research component.
Students
undertake a research project weighted at 66 per cent. This includes
multidisciplinary team research (to produce a team report), as well as
individual research on a topic arising from the team project and resulting in
the production of an integrated research folio.
Staff in other departments or sections in the university as a whole may be
called on to provide research supervision. Individual research supervision
offered by school staff (masters by research and coursework and PhD) covers
ecological systems and Quaternary vegetation and climate history; conserver
society theory and practice; environmental assessment; environmental education,
psychology, politics and decision-making processes; ecotourism; energy and
environment; environment and health; environment and planning processes
especially with a community focus and general approaches to knowledge and
action from the analytical viewpoint of social construction.
Candidates must complete 24 points of coursework:
Candidates who have not completed the Masters Qualifying in Environmental Science with a research component from Monash may be required to complete ENV501C (Systems thinking and practice 1) and ENV503C (Interdisciplinary team research) in lieu of electives.
Students must choose level-five electives to the value of 12 or 18 points (where no foundation studies are required).
Note that the minimum grade for the research folio and core units in the Master of Environmental Science is a 60 C or above and a credit average for electives.
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