This major explores the impact on the Earth’s environment from human activities and natural phenomena.
Course Plans
The Environmental Science Handbook entry stipulates the complete requirements for the Environmental Science major. Careful course planning is required to complete this major. Always use the University Handbook as your primary course planning tool to ensure that you fulfil any prerequisites required for your future Major Electives.
Sample course plan
Year 1 | ENVS10012 Changing Melbourne *** | Level 1 Environments elective | Maths or Statistics | Breadth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Year 1 | ENVS10001 Natural Environments | Level 1 Environments elective | Level 1 Environments elective OR Enabling Subject | Breadth |
Year 2 | Major Elective | Major Elective | Environments Elective | Breadth |
Year 2 | ECOL20003 Ecology | Major Elective | Environments Elective | Breadth |
Year 3 | EVSC30003 Environmental Risk Assessment | Major Elective | Major Elective | Breadth OR |
Year 3 | EVSC30002 Problem Solving in Environmental Science (Capstone) | Major Elective | Environments Elective | Breadth OR |
| First-year subjects | Enabling subjects | Major subjects | Elective subjects | Breadth subjects | Free points |
*** Students who have not completed Changing Melbourne will complete ENVS10002 Reshaping Environments instead
# Your compulsory maths or statistics subject may be taken as breadth in order to keep options open for other majors
Level 2 Major Electives (37.5 points)
- Chemistry 2
- Environmental Chemistry
- Chemistry: Reactions and Synthesis
- Practical Chemistry 2
- Chemistry: Structure and Properties
- Leaves to Landscape
- Probability for Statistics
- Statistics
- Understanding Global Landforms
- Environmental Change Field Class
- Dangerous Earth
Level 3 Major Electives (37.5 points)
- Vegetation Management and Conservation
- Analytical & Environmental Chemistry
- Applied Ecology
- Hydrogeology/Environmental Geochemistry
- Rivers Ecology and Ecosystem Management
- Imaging the Environment
- Linear Statistical Models
- Ecology of Urban Landscapes
- Costal Landforms and Processes
- Fire in the Australian Landscape
- Marine Ecosystems: Ecology and Management
Environments Electives
Environments electives are subjects approved as Environments discipline subjects in the Bachelor of Environments. The full list of Environments electives is available here.
Breadth
Students should refer to the Bachelor of Environments Handbook entry for details of breadth requirements and to access a complete listing of available breadth subjects.
Breadth restrictions in the Environmental Science major
Students undertaking the Environmental Science major are not permitted to take as breadth:
- any Agricultural Science subjects
- any Biology subjects
- any Biochemistry and Molecular Biology subjects
- any Botany/Plant Science subjects
- any Chemistry subjects
- any Civil Engineering subjects
- any Engineering subjects
- any Environmental Science subjects
- any Geography subjects
- any Geomatics subjects
- any Mathematics and Statistics subjects
- any Physics subjects
Refer to the Environmental Science Handbook entry for full details.