Major Overview
- Description
This major provides foundational knowledge and skills in environmental geography and planning. It provides students with an understanding of how environmental processes intersect with planning practice in a range of geographical contexts and at different spatial scales. Essential skills are developed for careers in environmental planning, including principles of site assessment, urban design, landscape evaluation and design, visualisation and master-planning. These are considered in the context of the strategic and statutory dimensions of environmental planning frameworks. Students are also provided with opportunities to put their knowledge into practice through a range of options, including fieldwork and industry projects. Graduates in this major will be well positioned to develop careers in a range of fields including environmental design, sustainable planning, environmental consultancy and planning agencies across the private, non-profit and public sectors both domestically and overseas.
Students should be aware that this major does not provide a pathway to an Honours.- Outcomes
Students are able to:
- Critically evaluate key concepts, theories and practices in environmental geography and planning
- Explain the role of strategic and statutory policy frameworks in guiding environmental planning
- Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate strategic and technical responses to environmental planning issues.
- Discuss the interdisciplinary and professional context within which environmental planning and design is situated
- Communicate environmental planning perspectives and knowledge effectively to specialist and non-specialist audiences using appropriately selected written, oral and visual means.
- Broadening guidelines
- All students studying towards a Bachelor's Degree at UWA are required to broaden their studies by completing a minimum of four units (24 points) of study outside their degree specific major. Broadening is your opportunity to explore other areas of interest, investigate new disciplines and knowledge paradigms and to shape your degree to suit your own aspirations and interests. Many of you will be able to undertake more than this minimum amount of broadening study and we encourage you to do so if this suits your aspirations. Over the next few months you will find here some broadening suggestions related to your degree-specific major. While we know that many students value guidance of this sort, these are only suggestions and students should not lose sight of the opportunity to explore that is afforded by your broadening choices. Advice can also be sought from your Allocated Student Advising Office.
Suggested units to broaden your study area, are:
ANTH3601 Indigenous Australia - Prerequisites
Enrolment in the Bachelor of Environmental Design or Bachelor of Philosophy
- Incompatibilities
MJD-HGYPL Human Geography and Planning (ID 1550)
- Courses
Environmental Geography and Planning can be taken as a degree-specific major in the following degree courses:
No study plans found for this major. See study plans for more information.
Units
Key to availability of units:
- S1
- Semester 1
- S2
- Semester 2
Level 1
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (12 points):
Level 2
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (12 points):
Availability | Unit code | Unit name | unit requirements |
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S2 | GEOG2202 | Reading Landscapes: People and Processes |
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S2 | LACH2050 | Plants and Landscape Systems | None |
Degree-specific major units
Take unit(s) to the value of 6 points:
Availability | Unit code | Unit name | unit requirements |
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S1 | ANTH2225 | Human Futures: Energy, Food and Sustainable Environments |
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S1, S2 | GEOG2201 | Geographic Information Systems |
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S1 | GEOG2206 | Population Change: Debates and Controversies |
|
Level 3
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (18 points):
Availability | Unit code | Unit name | unit requirements |
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S2 | GEOG3303 | Environmental Policy and Planning |
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S1 | GEOG3308 | Climate Change: Policy and Practice |
|
S2 | LACH3003 | Design through Landscape Management |