Global Change Science Major

Offered By	Faculty of Science
Academic Contact	Dr Michael Roderick and Professor Brendan Mackey
Areas of Interest	Earth and Marine Sciences and Resource Management and Environmental Science

Requirements

A major in Global Change Science will require a minimum of 42 units of courses listed in (a), (b) and (c) and requiring:

(a) no more than 12 units of courses chosen from:

EMSC1006 The Blue Planet

and one of:

BIOL1009 Diversity of Life
MATH1013 Mathematics and Applications 1 or MATH1015 Mathematics and Applications 1 Honours
ENVS1003 Environment and Society Research Methods
ENVS1004 Australia’s Environment
STAT1003 Statistical Techniques

(b) no more than 12 units of courses chosen from:

BIOL2121 Plants: Genes to Environment
BIOL2122 Marine Biology
EMSC2019 Marine Paleontology
EMSC2015 Chemistry of the Earth and Oceans
MATH2305 Differential Equations and Applications or MATH2405 Maths Methods 1 Honours: Ordinary Differential Equations and Advanced Vector Calculus
ENVS2004 Weather, Climate & Fire
ENVS2015 Introduction to Remote Sensing and GIS

BIOL3125 Plants and Global Climate Change
BIOL3151 Conservation Biology
EMSC3023 Global Cycles II: The Modern Oceans
EMSC3026 Environmental Geoscience
EMSC3027 Global Cycles and Paleooceanography
EMSC3029 Ocean and Atmosphere Modelling
MATH3133 Environmental Mathematics or MATH3134 Environmental Mathematics (Honours)
ENVS3001 Climate Change Science & Policy Field School
ENVS3008 Fire in the Environment
ENVS3013 Climatology
ENVS3020 Climate Change Science & Policy
ENVS3026 Geomorphology: landscape evolution under changing climates
ENVS3029 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction
One of BIOL3138 Special Topics in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics; EMSC3050 Special Topics; ENVS3010 Independent Research Project

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