Master of Science (Environmental Science)

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• Objectives
  Course objectives include:
  
  * an appreciation for the role of modelling in environmental science;
  * an overview of the range of environmental models in use;
  * the skills required to model environmental systems and processes;
  * an introduction to the construction and mathematical analysis of environmental models;
  * a high level of ability to analyse and evaluate environmental models;
  * describe major current global environmental challenges facing scientists and policy-makers;
  * discuss the relevance of a range of scientific disciplines to environmental management including meteorology, ecology, toxicology, hydrology, geology and epidemiology;
  * analyse the role of various evidentiary approaches to supporting science-based arguments including empirical observation and analysis, modelling and use of expert opinion; and
  * judge the merit of scientific arguments made in documents related to environmental policy.
• Academic title
  Master of Science (Environmental Science)
• Course description
  Course structure  (all subjects are 12.5 points each, total points: 200)
  
  Discipline Core (62.5 points)
  
  Students must take:
  
  o 600-654 Global Environmental Change, plus
  o 600-303 Environmental Risk Assessment*, plus
  o 600-653 Environmental Monitoring and Audit, plus
  o Environmental Modelling (This subject will not be available until semester 1, 2010), and
  o Graduate Seminar: Environmental Science (This subject will not be available until semester 2, 2010)
  
  Discipline Elective (37.5 points)
  
  Students must take 3 of the following subjects:
  
  o 625-634 Climate Affairs
  o eScience ** (this subject will not be available until semester 2, 2010)
  o 600-617 Systems Modelling and Simulation
  o 606-608 Restoration Ecology (offered every second year from 2009)
  o 121-532 Environmental Impact Assessment
  o 451-610 Fundamentals of GIS
  o 207-412 Environments of Urban Landscapes
  o 207-501 Management of Plant and Animal Invasion
  o 250-650 Wildlife Management
  o 207-511 Soil Science and Management
  o 610-680 Environmental Chemistry*** (may not be available beyond 2009)
  o 610-360 Analytical and Environmental Chemistry***
  o 606-305 Vegetation Management and Conservation***
  o 606-607 Flora of Victoria*** (summer semester)
  o 654-608 Conservation Biology***
  o 625-608 Hydrogeology**** (summer semester)
  
  * Exemption from this subject will be granted if the student has completed this as part of their undergraduate degree.
  
  ** These subjects can be taken either as an elective discipline subject or as an elective professional tool (but cannot be counted as both).
  
  *** This subject is only available as an elective to a student if an equivalent subject has not been completed in the student's undergraduate degree.
  
  **** Availability of subject may depend on timetabling constraints.
  
  Project Module (12.5 points)
  
  o 600-611 Industry Project (this subject will not be available until semester 2, 2010)
  
  Professional Tools Module (87.5 points)
  
  Professional Tools Core (75 points)
  
  Students must take:
  
  2 Business Tools Units
  
  o 600-614 Business Tools: Money, People and Projects, plus
  o Business Tools: The Market Environment (this subject will not be available until semester 1, 2010) plus
  
  2 Science Tools Units
  
  o 600-615 Thinking and Reasoning with Data, plus
  o 600-618 Ethics and Resonsibility in Science, plus
  
  2 Communication Tools Units
  
  o 600-619 Science and Communication, plus
  o 600-616 Science in Context
  
  Professional Tools Elective (12.5 points)
  
  Students must take 1 of the following Science Tools subjects:
  
  o eScience (this subject will not be available until semester 2, 2010) and/or
  o 600-617 Systems Modelling and Simulation1 and/or
  o Critical Analysis in Science (this subject will not be available until semester 2, 2010)

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