* Subject to final approval
Course code: 2702 + Course fees: local students - RTS HECS-exempt places available + Mid-year entry is available only for part-time candidates + Coordinator: Sharron Pfueller
This course, offered by the Graduate School of Environmental Science, is concerned with the interactions between humans and their biogeological 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. The course provides students with understandings of humans as nature and equips them 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. Research emphasises the processes behind human-environment interactions, the development of policy, and the implementation of management strategies favourable to the environment.
The course offers a primary insight into the nature of the environmental problematique through core coursework units involving interdisciplinary research experience and an understanding of the social construction of environmental issues; a small number of elective units complementary to candidates' prior studies; and an extensive experience involving both team-based and individual reporting. It has been designed to both broaden and deepen students' existing knowledge, providing intensive interdisciplinary as well as disciplinary research training in either the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Science.
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 equivalent qualification with a minimum grade of distinction for the research component.
Students complete 24 points of coursework:
Plus a thesis of 20,000 to 25,000 words. This may be supervised within either the Faculty of Arts or Faculty of Science.
The minimum pass grade for the thesis 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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