Geography and Environmental Science
Clayton
1st year sequence:
A first-year sequence consists of either GES1000 or GES1070 and either GES1020 or GES1050.
Minor sequence:
Students complete the above first-year sequence followed by 12 points (normally two units) at second-year level chosen from the units listed.
Major sequence:
A major consists of a first year sequence plus either 12 points of second year units and 24 points of third year units or 18 points of second year units and 18 points of third year units.
Units that can be counted towards Geography and Environmental Science - Clayton:
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ONLY Bachelor of Arts students may include AIA units in a Geography and Environmental Science sequence.
First-year level
- GES1000 Natural environment and human impact
- GES1070 Extremes: Natural Hazards and Human Vulnerability
- GES1020 Australian physical environments: evolution, status and management
- GES1050 The global challenge
Second/Third-year level
The second- and third-year syllabus permits students to select from a variety of systematic sub-disciplines. At third-year level, majoring students elect to enrol in one or more of the main systematic fields which are intended to challenge them with appropriate advanced material and to intensify their familiarity with the purpose and practice of original research work.
- GES2130 Soils, land use and the environment
- GES2160 Coastal Geomorphology and Management
- GES2170 Biogeography - the status of Australian vegetation
- GES2190 Climatology: surface-atmosphere processes and interactions
- GES2210 Environmental hydrology
- GES2320 Tourism and the environment
- GES2340 Cities and Sustainability
- GES2420 Environmental policy and management
- GES2160 Coastal geomorphology and management
- GES2660 Power and poverty: geographies of uneven development
- GES2750 Economic Spaces and Industrial Landscapes
- GES2760 Place and the Politics of Identity
- GES2860 Climate change and variability (previously GES3860 Climate change and variability)
- GES3220 Tourism and the Environment
- GES3240 Cities and Sustainability
- GES3250 Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
- GES3260 Cultural Landscape, Environment and Sustainability in Italy
- GES3330 Field Studies in Regional Sustainability (field-based unit; late January)
- GES3350 Resource evaluation and management
- GES3360 Soils, landscape and their management
- GES3370 Applied Environmental Climatology
- GES3420 Researching Human Environments
- GES3470 Zones of transformation: Development and environment in the Pacific-Indian Ocean Region
- GES3520 Social Space and Urban Justice
- GES3530 Landscape processes (field-based unit, July break)
- GES3550 Quaternary Environments
- GES3610 GIS Geographical Information Systems for Business and Social Science Applications
- GES3750 Sharing Prosperity: Geographies of work, Regional Development and Economy
- GES3810 Geographical information systems (GIS) for environmental management
- GES3820 Geographical information systems (GIS) for environmental management
- GES3850 The Australian atmospheric environment - a synoptic-scale approach