Course Content
Year 1 (at Portsmouth)
Core modules in this year include:
- Analysis of the Earth and Environment - 20 credits
- 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
- Environmental Fieldwork and Professional Skills - 20 credits
- Research Skills – 20 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
Aboriginal Perspectives on the Environment – 15 credits
Australian Biota – 15 credits
Ecological Restoration – 15 credits
Environmental Management and Sustainability – 15 credits
Geographical Information Systems – 15 credits
Marine and Freshwater Processes – 15 credits
Soil and Land Processes – 15 credits
Sustainable Water – 15 credits
Year 4 (at Portsmouth – 6 months)
Core modules in this year include:
- Environmental Science and Management Project - 40 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Environmental Auditing and Assessment – 20 credits
- Environmental Pollution and Waste Management – 20 credits
- Hazardscapes – 20 credits
