Program Requirements

The degree requires completion of at least 144 units including at least 96 units of Group A, B and C courses,

The total of 144 units must include the 6 core science communication courses (36 units): 

 

Group A (First Year)

SCOM1001       Science and Public Awareness

ENVS1003        Environment and Society Research Methods

 

Group B (Second Year)

SCOM2001       Practical Skills for Communicating Science

SCOM2003       Science in Popular Fiction

 

Group C (Third Year)

SCOM3001       Science, Risk and Ethics

SCOM3002       Science in the Media.

 

It must also include 4 other courses (24 units):

• 6 units from List 1
• 18 units from List 2, including at least 6 units from List 2(a).

The core science communication courses and the courses in Lists 1(a) and 2(a) can count towards the 96 units of Group A, B and C courses.

The degree program may not include:

• more than 48 units of courses not defined as Group A, B or C
• no more than 24 units of these 48 may be at first-year level
• more than 48 units at first-year level
• fewer than 36 units Group C

The maximum period for completion of the degree is 10 years from the date of first enrolment in the degree program; the 10 years includes periods of leave.

List 1 (First Year)

(a) ENVS1001 Resources, Environment & Society

     ENVS1008 Sustainable Development

     MATH1042 Philosophy of the Cosmos

     PSYC1003 Psychology 1: Understanding Mind, Brain & Behaviour

     PSYC1004 Psychology 2: Understanding People in Context

(b) ANTH1002  Culture and Human Diversity

     COMP1710  Tools for New Media and the Web

     DRAM1005  Page to Stage 1: Acting

 

List 2 (Later Years)

(a) ANTH2026 Medical Anthropology

     ANTH2127 Genes, Memes & Cultural Difference

     BIOL2152*  Advances in Human Genetics

     BIOL2191*   Ecology of Health and Disease

     BIOL3191 Biotechnology in Context

     ENVS2012*  Sustainable Systems: Urban

     ENVS2013 Society and Environmental Change

     ENVS3007 Participatory Resource Management: Addressing Environmental Conflict

     ENVS3020  Climate Change Science & Policy

     ENVS3021* Human Futures

     ENVS3028  Environmental Policy & Planning

     ENVS3033  International Environmental Policy

     PHIL2057  Philosophy of Science

     PHIL2061†  Philosophy of Psychology

     PHIL2082† Philosophy of Biology

     PSYC2001*  Social Psychology

     SCNC3200 Science & Mathematics Teaching in Secondary Schools

     SCOM3003  Special Topics in Science Communication (can be taken as 6 units or 12 units)

(b)  ASIA3009 Knowledge & Society

     DRAM2005† Page to Stage 2: Directing

     GEND2025† Gender, Health and Embodiment

     GEND2026† Technoculture & the Body

     HIST2117† Technology & Society 1800-2000

     LAWS3103 Law & the Environment

     SOCY2022 Environment & Society

     SOCY2053* Imagining the Future: The Social Origins of Utopias and Science Fiction

 

* Courses marked * require one or more prerequisite courses. The prerequisite courses may or may not be on these lists, and so may or may not count towards meeting the core requirements of this program.

† Courses marked † require either one or more prerequisite courses OR the permission of the course coordinator to enrol.

It is students' responsibility to ensure that prerequisite courses are taken into account when planning course choices, and/or to contact course coordinators for permission to enrol.

 

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