BP193 · RMIT University · Bachelor degree
Bachelor of Environmental Science/Bachelor of Sustainability and Environment
College of Design and Social Context
- Minimum ATAR
- 73.2
- Full time
- 4 years
- Part time
- 8 years
- Credit points
- —
- Campus
- Melbourne City
- Mode
- On campus
Overview
This degree empowers you to create change by driving future solutions for biodiversity, climate resilience, sustainable resource management, and pollution control.
Combine science-led knowledge and social science skills to address the way we adapt to environmental change, and help create a sustainable future.
Course structure
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Year One of Program
48 cpStudents must complete a series of compulsory onboarding modules during their first semester or study period. Complete 48 credit points from the following first year block courses: AND Complete 48 credit points from the following:
- ENVI1153Sustainable Futures12 cp
- HUSO2166Foundations of Social Research12 cp
- ONPS2700Data for a Scientific World12 cp
- ONPS2699The World of Life Sciences12 cp
- ENVI1146The Changing Environment12 cp
- CHEM1014Environmental Issues in Chemical Perspective12 cp
- ENVI1041Environmental Ideas and Action12 cp
- ENVI1196Systems Thinking for Resource Management12 cp
Year Two of Program
36 cpComplete 36 credit points from the following: AND Complete 12 credit points from the following: AND Complete 48 credit points from your chosen minors
Year Three of Program
60 cpComplete 60 credit points from the following: AND Complete 12 credit points from the following: AND Complete 24 credit points from your chosen minors
- ENVI1050Policy and Governance for Sustainability12 cp
- ENVI1049Environmental Management and Assessment12 cp
- ENVI1012The Soil Environment12 cp
- ENVI1237Environmental Pollution, Management, and Sustainability12 cp
- ENVI1011The Atmosphere12 cp
- ENVI1051Economics and the Environment12 cp
- ENVI1137Communicating Sustainability12 cp
- ENVI1179Environmental Policy Project12 cp
- ENVI1043Nature-based Solutions for Cities12 cp
Year Four of Program
36 cpComplete 36 credit points from the following: AND Complete 12 credit points from the following: AND Complete 12 credit points from the following: AND Complete 12 credit points from the following (which you have not completed previously): AND Complete 24 credit points from your chosen minors
- ENVI1213Environment Capstone Project24 cp
- ENVI1145Environmental Sampling and Analysis12 cp
- ENVI1062Client Based Research (Environment)12 cp
- ONPS2186Applied Science Project 112 cp
- ENVI1058Environmental Work Practice12 cp
- ONPS2543Science Work Experience 112 cp
- ENVI1051Economics and the Environment12 cp
- ENVI1137Communicating Sustainability12 cp
- ENVI1179Environmental Policy Project12 cp
- ENVI1043Nature-based Solutions for Cities12 cp
Sustainability and Society minors
List of Sustainability and Society minors
Minor: Public Policy & Social Justice
AND
Minor: Sustainable Urban Change
Minor: Global Development Challenges
AND
- SOCU2112Global Political Economy12 cp
- HUSO2036International Development, Themes, Debates and Practice12 cp
- SOCU2316Sport, Equity and Social Change12 cp
- SOCU1036Global Governance and International Law12 cp
- ECON1259Development Economics12 cp
- HUSO2092Gender, Development and Globalisation12 cp
- SOCU1027Moving People, Changing Places: Migration, Mobility and Displacement12 cp
- SOCU1016Asia Pacific Futures12 cp
Environmental Science minors
List of Environmental Science minors
Minor: Environmental & Analytical Chemistry
Minor: Environmental Biology
Careers
- Commonwealth, state, and local governments
- Environment-related government agencies
- Environmental and sustainability consulting firms
- Non-governmental organisations, including aid and development agencies in Australia and internationally
- Environment, community and advocacy organisations
- Emerging roles in corporate sustainability