Masters (Coursework)
The world is facing many environmental challenges - needing your help.
Through the Master of Environmental Science, you'll learn risk assessment techniques and scientifically rigorous ways to tackle grand environmental challenges such as air, water and land contamination and controls, climate change, energy transition, conservation and ecosystem management, and food security.
You'll specialise in an area of your choice, learning from leaders in their fields, while also building professional skills in communication, policy, planning, and ethical business studies.
The Master of Environmental Science is a 200-point program, made up of:
In your first-year, you'll start with the core subjects EVSC90017 Global Environmental Change and EVSC90014 Environmental Risk Assessment and choose elective subjects from the Discipline, Broadening and Professional subject groupings.
In your second year, you'll complete your elective subjects while undertaking the Industry Project in Environmental Science, and EVSC90019 Graduate Seminar: Environmental Science , where you will participate in, and sometimes lead, discussions of hot topics in environmental science.
In the year-long industry project, you'll work on an industry-relevant environmental science question. You'll spend time at the workplace of your assigned industry client, getting a full understanding of the problem and why it is important to the business or mission of the organisation.
Interdisciplinary, multi and cross-disciplinary science is essential when addressing environmental issues. No longer can specialist researchers work in isolation. Instead, ecologists work on major infrastructure projects and geographers work with urban utilities, and sustainability experts work with lawyers.
We need people who can stand back and look at the big picture, to find the connections and build the networks of people to solve the world's environmental problems. Take the Great Barrier Reef, for example. Biologists, agricultural scientists, climate scientists, economists, and sociologists are just some of the groups that need to work together to find the way forward to protect this irreplaceable treasure. As a project coordinator, you could find the connection that makes all the difference.
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Employers in this field include:
At the end of the course, if you complete the optional research project, you could qualify to undertake a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy).
Start-year Intake
Timely applications: 30 November 2021
Mid-year Intake
Timely applications: 31 May 2021
Note: Commonwealth Support Places (CSPs) will be allocated in timely application rounds, you will need to have submitted your full application prior to the timely application deadline to ensure you have the best chance to obtain a CSP.