Major details : UWA Handbook 2022 : The University of Western Australia

Environmental Science and Management major (MJD-ENVDM)

Environmental Science assesses the impact of human activity on the global environment and develops scientific, risk-based solutions to help secure a sustainable future. Environmental scientists deal with issues such as climate change, carbon trading, greenhouse gas emissions, water resource management, salinity, land degradation and rehabilitation, flora and fauna, habitat destruction, deforestation, energy and mineral depletion, air and water pollution, soil erosion, and groundwater contamination.
Using interdisciplinary and holistic approaches, students develop techniques in problem recognition and assessment followed by scientific modelling to achieve practical solutions to environmental problems. As a student of the Environmental Science and Management major students will be trained to apply scientific, economic and regulatory knowledge to help society resolve these conflicts.
The extended major in Environmental Science and Management will equip students for a career in Environmental Science or a pathway to postgraduate study. Students taking the extended major in Environmental Science and Management will position themselves well in the job market by gaining fundamental scientific skills as well as being trained in networking, team work, leadership and communication of complex issues essential for future leaders. The extended major further allows students the shortest possible pathway into all specialisations in Environmental Science Masters program at UWA excepting Marine and Coastal Processes.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) apply economic principles to evaluate environmental policy decisions
; (2) evaluate alternative policy instruments for managing the environment across local, regional, and global scales; (3) integrate models for environmental management using social science and environmental science principles; (4) characterise the main drivers of environmental change from a scientific, social, cultural, and economic perspective.; (5) demonstrate an understanding of the skills and knowledge to assess environmental systems, using field, laboratory, modelling and statistical methodologies; (6) integrate ecological, physical and chemical processes to guide decision making with respect to human intervention in the environment; (7) demonstrate an understanding of the knowledge to manage and rehabilitate disturbed systems such as natural and agricultural catchments, post mining landscapes, contaminated sites, urban environments, etc; and (8) demonstrate competency in, report writing, oral presentation and team work skills suited to gain employment in Environmental Science and Management.

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. 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. If you are completing this major in a Combined Bachelor's masters Course, you have elected to pursue a highly specialised and in-depth program of study in your chosen field. While you are encouraged to use the free elective units available in your course to study in other disciplines offered at UWA, your formal requirement to broaden your course will be met through the Honours and Postgraduate units which form an integral part of your course.

Prerequisites

Mathematics Methods ATAR or equivalent or higher or Mathematics Applications ATAR with a mathematics unit taken in the first year. Students without ATAR mathematics will take two first year mathematics units.
Chemistry ATAR or an additional chemistry unit taken in the first year.

Environmental Science and Management can only be taken as a degree-specific major in the following degree courses:

Overview of unit sequence

Environmental Science and Management is a degree-specific double major comprising:

five Level 1 units
six Level 2 units
seven Level 3 units

Key to availability of units:
S1 = Semester 1; S2 = Semester 2

Level 1

Degree-specific major units

Take all units (30 points):

Availability	Unit code	Unit name	unit requirements
S2	BIOL1131	Plant and Animal Biology	Prerequisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S1, S2	ECON1120	Environmental Economics 1	Prerequisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S1	ENVT1104	Environmental Science and Technology	Prerequisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S1, S2	SCIE1104	Science, Society and Data Analysis	Prerequisites: Successful completion of ATAR Subject(s) Mathematics Applications or equivalent or Mathematics Methods or equivalent or Unit(s) MATH1720 Mathematics Fundamentals Co-requisites: Enrolment in Unit(s) MATH1721 Mathematics Foundations: Methods Or SCIE1500 Analytical Methods for Scientists Successful completion of Unit(s) MATH1721 Mathematics Foundations: Methods Or SCIE1500 Analytical Methods for Scientists Incompatibility: Successful completion of Unit(s) STAT1520 Economic and Business Statistics
S1	SCOM1101	Communicating Science	Prerequisites: Successful completion of ATAR Subject(s) ATAR Mathematics Applications or ATAR Subject(s) WACE Mathematics 2C/2D or equivalent Co-requisites: Enrolment in Or Successful completion of Unit(s) MATH1720 Mathematics Fundamentals Incompatibility: Nil

Bridging units

Bridging units must be successfully completed within the first 48 points of study. Students who have not achieved a scaled mark of at least 50 in Mathematics Methods ATAR or equivalent or higher are required to complete SCIE1500. Students who have not achieved a scaled mark of at least 50 in Mathematics Applications ATAR or equivalent or higher are required to complete MATH1720 and SCIE1500. Note: Students who have completed MATH1721, are not required to complete SCIE1500. Students who have not achieved a scaled mark of at least 50 in Chemistry ATAR or equivalent or higher are required to complete CHEM1003.

Availability	Unit code	Unit name	unit requirements
S1, S2	CHEM1003	Introductory Chemistry	Prerequisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: ATAR Subject(s) Chemistry or equivalent
S1, S2	MATH1720	Mathematics Fundamentals	Prerequisites: Mathematics Applications ATAR [with a scaled score of less than 50] or with permission Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Mathematics Applications ATAR [with a scaled score of 50 or greater] or Equivalent or higher
S1, S2	SCIE1500	Analytical Methods for Scientists	Prerequisites: Successful completion of ATAR Subject(s) ATAR Subject Mathematics Applications or Unit(s) MATH1720 Mathematics Fundamentals (ID 5107) Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: ATAR Subject(s) ATAR Mathematics Methods and Unit(s) MATH1721 Mathematics Foundations: Methods (ID 5108)

Level 2

Degree-specific major units

Take all units (36 points):

Availability	Unit code	Unit name	unit requirements
S1	ECON2224	Environmental Economics 2	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one level 1 Unit(s) ECON1xxx Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S1	ENVT2220	The Climate System	Prerequisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S1	ENVT2236	Soil Science	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one Unit(s) CHEM1003 Introductory Chemistry or ATAR Subject(s) Chemistry and Successful completion of one Unit(s) EART1105 Dynamic Planet or Unit(s) ENVT1104 Environmental Science and Technology or Unit(s) BIOL1131 Plant and Animal Biology or Unit(s) BIOL1130 Frontiers in Biology and Successful completion of one Unit(s) SCIE1104 Science, Society and Data Analysis or Unit(s) STAT1400 Statistics for Science or Unit(s) STAT1520 Economic and Business Statistics Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Unit(s) EART2222 Geomorphology and Soils
S2	ENVT2251	Hydrology and Water Resource Management	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one Unit(s) EART1105 Dynamic Planet or Unit(s) ENVT1104 Environmental Science and Technology or GEOG1103 Urbanisation and Sustainability or GENG1014 Earth Systems Engineering Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S1, S2	GEOG2201	Geographic Information Systems	Prerequisites: 36 points of prior study Co-requisites: Nil. Incompatibility: Nil
S2	SCIE2267	Quantitative Methods in Environmental Management	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one Unit(s) SCIE1104 Science, Society and Data Analysis or Unit(s) STAT1520 Economic and Business Statistics or Unit(s) STAT1400 Statistics for Science or prior approval Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil

Level 3

Degree-specific major units

Take all units (42 points):

Availability	Unit code	Unit name	unit requirements
S1	ECON3323	Business and the Environment	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one Unit(s) ECON2224 Environmental Economics 2 or Unit(s) ECON2105 Rise of the Global Economy or Unit(s) ECON2233 Microeconomics: Policy and Applications or Unit(s) ECON2234 Macroeconomics: Policy and Applications or Unit(s) ECON2245 Business Economics or Unit(s) PLNG2203 Environmental Policy and Planning Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S1	ENVT3338	Land Capability Assessment	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one Unit(s) ENVT2220 The Climate System or Unit(s) ENVT2236 Soil Science or Unit(s) EART2222 Geomorphology and Soils or Unit(s) EART2231 Earth Materials or Unit(s) EART2234 Earth Processes or Unit(s) ENVT2251 Hydrology and Water Resource Management or Unit(s) ENVT2221 Global Climate Change and Biodiversity or Unit(s) ENVT2250 Ecology Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S2	ENVT3339	Land Rehabilitation	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one Unit(s) ENVT2236 Soil Science or Unit(s) EART2231 Earth Materials or Unit(s) EART2234 Earth Processes or Unit(s) ENVT2251 Hydrology and Water Resource Management Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S1	ENVT3361	Environmental Assessment	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one Unit(s) ENVT2236 Soil Science or Unit(s) ENVT2251 Hydrology and Water Resource Management or Unit(s) ENVT2221 Global Climate Change and Biodiversity or Unit(s) ENVT2250 Ecology Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S2	ENVT3362	Environmental Dynamics	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one Unit(s) ENVT2250 Ecology or Unit(s) ENVT2220 The Climate System or Unit(s) ENVT2251 Hydrology and Water Resource Management or Unit(s) SCIE2204 Marine Systems or Unit(s) EART2204 Coastal Processes or Unit(s) SCIE2267 Quantitative Methods in Environmental Management Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S2	GEOG3301	Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing	Prerequisites: Successful completion of one Unit(s) GEOG2201 Geographic Information Systems Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Nil
S2	GEOG3303	Environmental Policy and Planning	Prerequisites: Enrolment in MJD-CONBI Conservation Biology or MJD-NRMGT Natural Resource Management or MJD-GGRPY Geographical Sciences or MJD-HGYPL Human Geography and Planning or MJD-WLCDM Wildlife Conservation or MJD-ENVDM Environmental Science and Management or MJD-ENVMT Environmental Management or MJD-ENGEO Environmental Geography and Planning or MNR-SAPEP Science and Policy: Environmental Planning or MNR-SPCEU Science and Policy: Climate Change, Environmental Planning and Urban Environments or MNR-ENVST Understanding the Environment and Successful completion of 72 points in your chosen degree Co-requisites: Nil Incompatibility: Unit(s) PLNG2203 Environmental Policy and Planning

Choosing your degree-specific major

General degrees

You must satisfy the requirements of a degree-specific major before you complete your course. The flexible structure of an undergraduate course allows you to try out a number of different subjects to see what interests you before nominating your degree-specific major. You have the choice to either nominate your degree-specific major when you first enrol in the course or delay nominating it until your second year.

To plan the first year of your study without nominating a degree-specific major, you are advised to choose units that will pave the way to two or more degree-specific majors that are of interest to you. For examples of the choice of units available in first year, search the first-year study plans .

To fully understand the structure of an undergraduate course, read the course structure information and the Undergraduate Degree Course Rules.

The following example illustrates how the Environmental Science and Management degree-specific major can be included in the Bachelor of Environmental Science course.

Example Study Plan

MJD-ENVDM Bachelor of Environmental Science (Environmental Science and Management) [xlsx]

There are more choices open to you. For more examples, search the study plans .

Specialised degrees – Bachelor of Advanced Computer Science (Honours), Bachelor of Automation and Robotics, Bachelor of Environmental Design, Bachelor of Music

You must satisfy the requirements of the degree-specific major in your degree before you complete your course.

Bachelor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics

This comprehensive degree does not allow you to choose a double major.