Undergraduate - Area of study Sustainability, environment and society

First-year level

Students studying a sequence in sustainability, environment and society must complete the following two units (12 points):

• ATS1309 The global challenge
• ATS1310 Natural hazards and human vulnerability

Second/Third-year level

Students studying a minor or major in sustainability, environment and society must have completed the first-year sequence. In addition:

• a minor requires completion of a further two units (12 points) from the units listed below, including all compulsory units
• a major requires completion of a further six units (36 points) from the units listed below, including all compulsory units. A minimum of three units must be taken at third-year level.

A maximum of two 'additional elective' units (12 points) can be taken.

Compulsory units

• ATS2547 Cities and sustainability

Elective units

• ATS2622 Production, consumerism and the environment in the contemporary world
• ATS2639/ATS3639 Poverty, ecology and international justice
• ATS2709/ATS3709 Politics of environmentalism
• ATS2871/ATS3871 Environmental ethics
• ATS3554 Resource evaluation and management*

* To be taken in the last year of the sequence.

Additional elective units

Students can also include a maximum of 12 points towards their major from the following units:

• ATS2399 The self and others: Identity and the experience of difference in the 21st Century
• ATS2411/ATS3411 Weird weather: Literature, culture and climate
• ATS2427/ATS3427 Earthworks: Literature and environment
• ATS2548 Environmental policy and management
• ATS2549/ATS3549 Power and poverty: Geographies of uneven global development
• ATS2259/ATS3259 Geographical information systems (GIS) for environmental management
• ATS2626 Global disasters: Impact, inquiry and change
• ATS2628 Power and poverty: International development in a globalised world
• ATS2731/3731 Regional and rural societies: People, place and nature
• ATS2736 Environmental sociology
• ATS2774 Understanding Australian landscapes: Soil-vegetation dynamics
• ATS2778 Public spaces and city life
• ATS2779 Climate change and variability
• ATS2780 Geographical analysis
• ATS2886/ATS3886 Tourism and the environment
• ATS2889/ATS3889 Indigenous knowledge in cross-cultural praxis: Aboriginal community field unit
• ATS3281 Cultural landscape, environment and sustainability in Italy*
• ATS3283 Sharing prosperity: Geographies of work, regional development and economy
• ATS3546 Environmental assessment and decision making
• ATS3552 Remote sensing of the environment
• ATS3553 Field studies in regional sustainability**
• ATS3555 Researching human environments
• ATS3556 Urbanisation and regional development in the Indo-Pacific rims
• ATS3558 Global change and the earth system
• ATS3788 Soils, landscape and their management
• ATS3787 Research methods in geography environment and sustainability
• ATS3790 Landscape processes
• ATS3791 Environmental change: Past to future
• ATS3898 Special topics in sustainability
• ATS3902 Geopolitics of climate change
• MGC2950 Systems thinking for sustainability: A policy perspective***

Note: Some of these electives may require permission from schools as students may not have completed first-year sequences in the appropriate discipline.

* Field study unit in Italy.

** Field study unit in South Africa.

*** Note: This unit does not count towards the 96 points in Arts required in a double degree.