Bachelor
In the Bachelor of Marine Biology students explore our ocean environment, the ecological interactions that sustain its biodiversity and how we might best protect it. Learning is centred on practical and field-based experiences, through which students consolidate theoretical concepts and skills that are important for marine research and understanding governance and sustainability.
This course gives students a thorough understanding of life in marine and aquatic environments, acquisition of skills to study them and the ability to detect and assess detrimental effects on marine environments such as climate change, pollution and human resource use, as well as how to ameliorate or remediate such effects.
Students learn these skills and concepts through a combination of theory, field and laboratory experiences. Field trips undertaken in the later part of this course are particularly valued for the opportunities to put theory into practice and learn through experiencing the environment first-hand.
Career options include positions in fisheries industries, national parks and wildlife, environmental protection, infrastructure and development, natural resources and planning both in government and industries. Graduates are also employed by local councils as environmental officers, in resource industries and consulting firms as research officers, CSIRO, universities and as teachers at schools. Opportunities exist within non-government conservation sector, zoos, aquariums, science communication/documentary making and eco-tourism and tourism industries.
Students must complete a total of 144 credit points, made up of 120 credit points of core subjects and 24 credit points of elective subjects. The elective subjects enable students to increase their expertise in other areas of science or other disciplines in the University.
Students must satisfactorily complete all core subjects and the required number of credit points of elective for award of the degree.
Students studying this course have an opportunity to undertake an internship subject and receive academic credit for their placement off campus (an external business or research institute) or on campus (UTS research institutes or departments), in a capacity relevant to their academic studies.