Future Students

Climate and Environment

Upon completion of this major, students will have scientific knowledge of: (i) climate processes, climate variability and controls of climate change;  (ii) the significance and relevance of climate processes and change to the wider environmental and agricultural sciences;  (iv) the policy, planning and social science implications of climate change issues at the regional and global scale; and (v) the competence to effectively translate basic climate science, climate change and related issues into an environmental-social science problem solving context.

Level 1
You will follow the Earth Sciences foundation package and study Earth & Environment: Dynamic Planet; Earth & Environment and Earth & Environment Geological Perspectives or Earth & Environment Geographical Perspectives.  Plus electives.

Level 2
You will study The Climate System; Global Climate Change and Biodiversity; and choose from either Earth Surface Processes and Soils or Introduction to Ecology; and Coastal Environments Processes or Environmental Hydrology, plus electives.  At level 2 you also take units towards a second major.

Level 3
You study Environmental Change and Climate Dynamics and choose at least two units from: Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology; Marine Geology; Environmental Geomorphology of Coasts and Rivers; Climate Change Policy and Planning; Land and Water: Case Studies in Land and Water Management; and Australian Vegetation.  You will also take units in your second major if you elect to pursue a double major.

If you are interested in finding out which subjects you will study then have a look at the Course Outline. This will show you the core units and the options for the course, along with course rules.

You will notice that each unit has a unit code, for example EART1105. The first number in the unit code indicates the level of the unit - in this case level one. For a more detailed description of a particular unit, click on the unit code.

Career opportunities

With the increasing attention that governments (national and international) and private companies are required to give to climate issues, job prospects for graduates will be many and varied and include government departments (e.g. Dept. Environment and Conservation, Dept. Agriculture and Food), policy-making areas of government, private industry (e.g. oil companies), universities (both teaching and research), research institutions (e.g. CSIRO), and national and overseas advisory appointments.