Note: This course is only available to re-enrolling students.
Course overview
- Description
The fully online Undergraduate Certificate in Earth Science provides knowledge and experience that gives insight into how our planet works, the time and spatial scales on which geological processes operate, and how society uses the Earth's valuable natural resources. These units provide hands-on, transferable scientific, problem-solving, and communication skills that enhance student's employability and opportunities further study in the earth sciences.
- Award abbreviation
- UGCertEarthSc
- Course type
- Undergraduate certificate course
- Status
- Rescinded subject to continuing students being able to re-enrol and complete
- Admission requirements
- Minimum ATAR Threshold is . The ATAR Subject Prerequisites are
- Administered by
- Earth Sciences; Graduate Research School
Course details
- Structure
- 24 points comprising 4 six-point units. Students take four units in the semester.
- Available to international students
- No
- Delivery mode
- Internal
- Standard full-time completion
- 6 months
- Standard part-time completion
- 1 year (maximum 2 years)
- Locations offered
- UWA (Perth)
- Domestic fee type
- Commonwealth supported and/or HECS-HELP
- Fees
- Visit the fees calculator.
No study plans found for this course. See study plans for more information.
Course structure
Key to availability of units:
- S1
- Semester 1
- S2
- Semester 2
All units have a value of six points unless otherwise stated.
For students without ATAR Mathematics or equivalent, take all units this group (12 points) with either MATH1720 or PACM1101 to be taken in the winter teaching period.
| Availability | Unit code | Unitname | Unit requirements | Contact hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1, S2 | MATH1720 | Mathematics Fundamentals |
| 3 x 1 hr lectures and 1 x 1hr workshop |
| S1, S2 | PACM1101 | Communication in Practice |
| 3 hours per week |
For students with ATAR Mathematics or equivalent, take all units from this group (6 points). Please note: PACM1101 to be taken in the winter teaching period.
| Availability | Unit code | Unitname | Unit requirements | Contact hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1, S2 | PACM1101 | Communication in Practice |
| 3 hours per week |
Take all units (12 points):
| Availability | Unit code | Unitname | Unit requirements | Contact hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | BIOL1131 | Plant and Animal Biology | None | lectures: 2 hours per week; practical or group work sessions: 3 hours per week (approximately) |
| S2 | EART1104 | Discovering Earth | None | 52 hours |
For students with ATAR Mathematics or equivalent, take one unit from this group (6 points). Note: ATAR or equivalent prerequisites are required for some units.
| Availability | Unit code | Unitname | Unit requirements | Contact hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | ANHB1102 | Human Biology II: Being Human | None | lectures: approximately 3 hours per week, delivered live and also all available online; tutorials: approximately 1.5 hours per week. |
| S1, S2 | CHEM1001 | Chemistry—Properties and Energetics |
| lectures: 2 hours per week; workshops: 2 hours per week; labs: 3 hours per week (for 6 weeks) (unsatisfactory attendance and/or performance at the laboratory sessions leads to a laboratory mark of zero) |
| S1, S2 | CHEM1002 | Chemistry—Structure and Reactivity |
| lectures: 3 hours per week; workshops: 1 hours per week; labs: 3 hours per week (for 6 weeks) (unsatisfactory attendance and/or performance at the laboratory sessions leads to a laboratory mark of zero) |
| S1, S2 | CHEM1003 | Introductory Chemistry |
| lectures: 3 hours per week; workshops: 1 hours per week; labs: 3 hours per week (for 6 weeks) (unsatisfactory attendance and/or performance at the laboratory sessions leads to a laboratory mark of zero) |
| CHEM1004 | Biological Chemistry | |||
| S1, S2 | ECON1120 | Environmental Economics 1 | None | lectures: 2 hours per week; tutorials: 1 hour per week |
| S2 | NEUR1001 | Neuroscience in Society | None | lectures: 2 x 1 hour per week; online activities: 2.5 hours per week |
| S2 | PSYC1102 | Psychology: Behaviour in Context | None | lectures: 2 hours per week; labs: 2 hours per fortnight |
| S1, S2 | SCIE1104 | Science, Society and Data Analysis | Contact hours Practical class: 2 hours per week | |
| S2 | SCIE1106 | Molecular Biology of the Cell |
| lectures: 3 hours per week, practical sessions: 3 x 3 hours per semester |
| S1, S2 | SSEH1104 | Active Leadership 1: Developing Leadership Skills | None | online lectures/seminars/pracs: 2 hours per fortnight; planning and execution of leadership experience: 30 hours |
Rules
Note: This course is only available to re-enrolling students.
Title
1. These rules are the Undergraduate Certificate in Earth Science Course Rules.
Terms Used
2. The Glossary provides an explanation of the terms used in these rules.
Applicability of the Student Rules, policies and procedures
3.(1) The Student Rules apply to students in this course.
(2) The policy, policy statements and guidance documents and student procedures apply, except as otherwise indicated in the rules for this course.
Academic Conduct Essentials, Communication and Research Skills And Indigenous Studies Essentials module
4.(1) Except as stated in (2), a student who enrols in an undergraduate degree course of the University for the first time irrespective of whether they have previously been enrolled in another course of the University, must undertake the Academic Conduct Essentials module (the ACE module), Communication and Research Skills (the CARS module) and Indigenous Studies Essentials (the ISE module) in the teaching period in which they are first enrolled.
(2) A student must successfully complete the ACE module within the first teaching period of their enrolment. Failure to complete the module within this timeframe will result in the student's unit results from this teaching period being withheld. These results will continue to be withheld until students avail themselves of a subsequent opportunity to achieve a passing grade in the ACE module. In the event that students complete units in subsequent teaching periods without completing the ACE module, these results will similarly be withheld. Students will not be permitted to submit late review or appeal applications regarding results which have been withheld for this reason and which they were unable to access in the normally permitted review period.
(3) A student who has previously achieved a result of Ungraded Pass (UP) for the CARS module or the ISE module is not required to repeat the relevant module.
Course structure
Satisfactory progress
Progress status
Deferrals
12. Applicants are not permitted to defer admission to this course and are expected to commence their course in the offered intake only. Approved leave is not available during the first academic year of this course. Applicants seeking admission to an alternative intake must submit a new application for that intake.