Program Requirements

The degree requires completion of at least 192 units comprising:

1. 144 units:

• ENVS1001, ENVS2011, ENVS3021, ENVS3036 ((or ENVS3040)
• 12 units from List 1 - Australia and Asia-Pacific #
• 12 units from List 2 - Natural and Built Environments #
• 12 units from List 3 - Social Science and Humanities #
• 6 units from List 4a #
• 6 units from List 4b #
• 84 units consisting of two majors* selected from List 5 #

# Lists 1-5 may be expanded with the approval of the Program Convener and Prescribed Authority.

* Courses from cores and themes may also count towards majors where permitted by the rules of that major.

2. 48 units from an approved Honours program.

The program may not include more than 60 units of 1000-series courses. The maximum period for completion of the degree program is 10 years from the date of first enrolment in the program. The 10 years includes periods of leave.

Students wishing to remain in the program must maintain an average mark of 75 per cent each semester during the first 144 units of the degree program. Students who do not maintain this average will be transferred to the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies pass degree program.

List 1. Australia & Asia-Pacific

ANTH2005 Indigenous Australian societies and cultures

ANTH2006 Anthropology of New Guinea and Melanesia

ANTH2017 Indigenous Australians and Australian society

ANTH2060 Southeast Asia: contemporary issues in an anthropological perspective

ANTH2129 Asian transnationals: migration, mobility, identity

ARCH2004 Australian Archaeology

ARCH2005 The archaeology of the Pacific Islanders

ASIA1025 Individual and society in Asia A

ASIA1030 Individual and society in Asia B

ASIA2017 International relations in North East Asia

ASIA2028 Security and strategic studies A

ASIA2030 Security and strategic studies B

ASIA2047 Human security: refugees, conflict and post-conflict peace building

ECHI1005 Business and economy in the Asia-Pacific region

ECHI1006 Australian economy

HIST1203 Australian history

HIST2022 Indigenous Australian history

HIST2119 Urban Australia

HIST2129 Country lives: Australian rural history

PASI2001 Learning Oceania

ENVS1008 Contemporary Issues in Asia & Australia

ENVS2017 Vietnam Field School

List 2. Natural & built environments

BIOL1003 Biology 1: Evolution, ecology and genetics

BIOL1008 Human Biology

BIOL1009 Diversity of Life

BIOL2111 Australian wildlife

BIOL2112 Marine biology

BIOL2122 Plant diversity

BIOL2135 Conservation biology

ENGN1211 Discovering engineering

ENH1215 Introduction to materials

EMSC2014 Surficial Processes

SCOM1001 Science and public awareness

SCOM2001 Science communication

ENVS1003 Environment and Society Research Methods

ENVS2001 Landforms and Soils: Landscape Systems2 

ENVS2004 Weather, Climate and Fire

ENVS2008 Hydrology for Natural Resource Management

ENVS2009 Ecological measurement and modelling

ENVS2010 Australia's forests

ENVS2012 Cities and Their Hinterlands

ENVS2015 Introduction to Remote Sensing and GIS

ENVS2019 Vegetation Ecology: Landscape Systems 1 

List 3. Social Sciences & Humanities

ANTH1002 Introducing anthropology

ANTH1004 Global and local

ANTH2009 Culture and development

ARCH1112 From origins to civilisations

BIAN2013 Human Evolution

BIAN2120 Culture, biology and population dynamics

BUSN1001 Business reporting and analysis

BUSN3017 Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability, and Reporting

ECON1101 Microeconomics 1

ECON1102 Macroeconomics 1

ECON2101 Microeconomics 2

ECON2102 Macroeconomics 2

ECON2128 Resource and Environmental Economics

ECON2131/2132 Public Economics Theory (P/H)

ECON2133 Cost-benefit Analysis

ECHI2003 Development, poverty and famine

EMET1001 Foundations of Economics and Financial Models

EMET2007 Econometric Models to Econometric Methods

MGMT1003 Management, people and organizations

MGMT2035 Managing organisational change

MGMT3001 Corporate Sustainability

MGMT3015 Corporate Strategy

MGMT3016 Business Ethics

MGMT3021 Leadership

POLS1002 Introduction to politics

POLS1003 Ideas in politics

POLS1004 Money, power, war

POLS1005 Introduction to international relations

POLS2005 Australian government administration and
public policy

POLS2011 Development and change

POLS2064 Global social movements

POLS2065 Australian federal politics

POLS2083 Contemporary Australian political issues

POLS2086 Gender globalisation and development

POLS2093 Rural policy and politics in Australia

POLS2094 Issues in international political economy

POLS2095 Pathways from the periphery? Miracle economies and world poverty

POPS2001 Population and society

POPS2002 Population Analysis

LAWS3013 Law and the environment

SOCY1002 Self and society

SOCY1003 Contemporary society

SOCY2022 Environment and society

SOCY2030 Sociology of third world development

SOCY2032 Population and Australia

SOCY2033 Australian society: development and change

SOCY2035 Development and change of urban society

SOCY2038 Introduction to quantitative research methods

ENVS2007 Economics for the environment

ENVS2013 Environment and Development Exploring Interactions Through Theory and Practice

ENVS2014 Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability

List 4. Qualitative & quantitative research methods courses

4a Qualitative - Arts

SOCY2043 Qualitative Research Methods

ENVS2014 Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability

4b Quantitative

EMET1001 Foundations of Economics and Financial Models

EMET2007 Econometric Models to Econometric Methods

POPS2002 Population Analysis

SOCY2038 Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods

STAT1003 Statistical Techniques

STAT1008 Quantitative Research Methods

STAT3008 Applied Statistics

STAT3012 Design of Analysis and Surveys

ENVS1003 Environment and Society Research Methods

ENVS2009 Ecological Measurement and Modelling

ENVS2015 Introduction to Remote Sensing and GIS

List 5. Majors

Arts:

Anthropology

Australian Studies

Biological Anthropology

Development Studies

Environmental Studies

Geography #

Human Ecology #

Human Sciences

Indigenous Australian Studies

International Communication

International Relations

Philosophy

Policy Studies

Political Science

Population Studies

Social Research Methods

Sociology

Asian Studies:

Asian History

Asian Politics and International Relations

Contemporary Asian Societies

Pacific Studies

Security Studies

Business and Economics:

Corporate Sustainability

International Business

Management

Engineering and Information Technology:

Materials and Mechanical Systems

Sustainable Energy Systems

Science:

Climate Change Science & Policy 

Ecology and Evolution

Earth and Environmental Science

Environmental Modelling

Environmental Policy

Forest Science

Genetics

Geology

Geography #

Global Change Science

Human Ecology #

Environmental Geoscience

Palaeoenvironments and Marine Science

Psychology

Natural Resource Management

Science Communication

Water Science and Policy

Zoology

# both Arts and Science

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