Course Content
Year 1 (at Portsmouth)
Core modules in this year include:
- Ecology, Plants and Human Impact – 20 credits
- Global Environmental Challenges – 20 credits
- Introduction to Marine Ecology and Oceanography – 20 credits
- Planet Earth – 20 credits
- Quantitative Methods – 20 credits
- Science for Earth Systems – 20 credits
Year 2 (at Portsmouth)
Core modules in this year include:
- Environmental Chemistry and Monitoring – 20 credits
- Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing – 20 credits
- Research, Fieldwork and Professional Skills – 40 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Energy Resources – 20 credits
- Environmental Change – 20 credits
- Hydrology and Geoenvironmental Risk – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Practical Boating Skills – 20 credits
- River Processes – 20 credits
- Scientific and Technical Diving Techniques A – 20 credits
- Scientific and Technical Diving Techniques B – 20 credits
Year 3 (at Edith Cowan University)
Core modules
- Australian Biota
- Geographical Information Systems
- Aboriginal Perspectives on the Environment
- Sustainable Water
- Soil and Land Processes
- Ecological Restoration
- Marine and Freshwater Processes
- Environmental Management and Sustainability
Year 4 (at Portsmouth – 6 months)
Core modules in this year include:
- Dissertation – 40 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Environmental Auditing and Assessment – 20 credits
- Environmental Pollution and Waste Management – 20 credits
- Hazardscapes – 20 credits
