Units
The individual subjects inside each degree: what’s taught, how it’s assessed, and when it runs.
4,303 units
| Code | Unit | Faculty | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENV30001 | Environmental Biology This unit aims to introduce the students to various regional and global concerns regarding the environment, including the natural challenges, various types of environmental pollutants and their effects, the changing environment, and the dev… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| ENV30003 | Environmental Management This unit aims to provide an understanding of ecology, environmental systems and environmental management. The various topics give a critical insight into the diversity and complexity of environmental issues, and the major causes and effect… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| ENVI1008 | The Hydrosphere In this course, you will explore the principles and mechanisms whereby water cycles through and interacts with the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. Field work provides you with skills in in-situ measurement of water quali… | STEM College | — |
| ENVI1011 | The Atmosphere The atmosphere is all around us, all the time. Our lives and the lives of all living things depend on it, yet few of us understand how the atmosphere functions. In this course, you will develop a solid scientific understanding of how the ea… | STEM College | — |
| ENVI1012 | The Soil Environment Soils are fundamental to life. Every meal you eat, your clothes, your house: these have all come from the soil. Even the air we breathe is directly affected by soil processes. In this course, The Soil Environment, we will explore how soils… | STEM College | — |
| ENVI1041 | Environmental Ideas and Action In this course you will examine competing, long-standing ideas about the environment in order to better understand our attitudes and actions today. You will be introduced to the idea of Country, dominant Western ideas about nature such as '… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1043 | Nature-based Solutions for Cities Consistent with a worldwide trend, the size of Australian cities has increased dramatically over the last 100 years, placing significant pressures on the environment. Evidence of rapidly changing climates, diminishing natural resources and… | STEM College | — |
| ENVI1048 | Building Relationships with Country This course examines what all people living in Australia might gain by building respectful relationships with Australia's First Peoples's knowledge about Country. Therefore an acknowledgement that Australian First Peoples's sovereignty was… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1049 | Environmental Management and Assessment The course will introduce you to the influences that shape environmental management, both within government and the business community, by studying theory and practical examples of the use of environmental management tools - specifically En… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1050 | Policy and Governance for Sustainability This course explores the way in which policy making and implementation shape environmental governance and planning. Policy-making theory and practice and policy processes in Australia form the basis of the syllabus. Emphasis will be given t… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1051 | Economics and the Environment The fate of the environment is inextricably linked to economic conditions. With rare exceptions, nation states emphasise economic growth over environmental considerations such as ecological sustainability, and air and water quality. In Aust… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1058 | Environmental Work Practice In this course you will learn about the world of work in the sustainability sector, and your positioning in this world. This includes an understanding of workplace dynamics and approaches, including communication, rights, equity, inclusivit… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1062 | Client Based Research (Environment) This course provides you with the opportunity to apply research and analysis skills to the kind of problems identified by environmental agencies who are potential employers of RMIT graduates. It emphasises the processes, methods and skills… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1137 | Communicating Sustainability This course provides an overview of the representation, framing and expression of the environment and nature in various cultural forms and across a range of media within different global contexts. You will examine ways in which worldviews,… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1144 | Environmental Sustainability Project This a course a capstone, work integrated learning (WIL) course in which you will apply knowledge and skills acquired in your previous study to a challenge associated with environmental sustainably in various international locations. The co… | STEM College | — |
| ENVI1145 | Environmental Sampling and Analysis This course provides you with program capstone and work integrated learning (WIL) experiences, which will give you the opportunity to integrate, critically reflect on and consolidate what you have learnt in your program. Students will be re… | STEM College | — |
| ENVI1146 | The Changing Environment In this course, you will learn how science informs efforts to achieve a sustainable society. You will learn about the diversity of environmental science disciplines and their application in the real world, including engaging with social deb… | STEM College | — |
| ENVI1153 | Sustainable Futures In recent years, the idea of sustainability has moved centre-stage in debates about human futures. In this course you will explore the interactions between society and the environment which must be better managed to ensure quality of life w… | College of Business and Law | — |
| ENVI1179 | Environmental Policy Project The course provides you with the opportunity to apply research and analysis skills to the kinds of problems identified by organisations outside RMIT University. It emphasises the processes, methods and skills needed for research work and gi… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1196 | Systems Thinking for Resource Management This course introduces key theories and concepts that will help you to interpret and engage with current issues and debates around the management of natural resources. To achieve this you will initially explore how certain social constructs… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1211 | The Science of Climate and Biodiversity This course examines interactions that occur between people and their environments. You will assess how physical and human processes combine to affect environmental change, and adopt a focus-topic approach to examine several critical enviro… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1212 | Climate Change Responses As climate change proceeds, in tandem with other issues flagged by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, we need to think critically about how we are, and should be, responding. In this course you will gain integrated, critical… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1213 | Environment Capstone Project This course is designed as a capstone experience. You will synthesise, integrate and apply the specialised knowledge and skills you have developed in your degree program and apply contemporary sustainability theory and management tools to i… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| ENVI1236 | Environmental policy, perspectives, and priorities Why do we conduct environmental science and how is environmental data used to inform decision-making in society? This course introduces you to the science-policy interface, exploring how environmental science influences society and governan… | STEM College | — |
| ENVI1237 | Environmental Pollution, Management, and Sustainability This course extends your knowledge of the science, environmental management and regulation of pollution, with a particular emphasis on analysing contaminant sources, transport pathways, environmental fate and associated impacts. You will ex… | STEM College | — |
| ENVI1241 | Regenerative Fundamentals In this course, you will develop the skills and language to navigate regenerative approaches across disciplines. You will build a broad understanding of regenerative approaches, systems thinking, life-cycle analysis, and interdisciplinary m… | RMIT University | — |
| ENVI1242 | Regenerative Challenge In this capstone course, you will work directly with industry and community partners on real-world regenerative projects addressing urgent planetary challenges. Working in interdisciplinary teams, you will tackle complex issues such as rene… | RMIT University | — |
| ENVI1243 | Systems Thinking for Sustainable Futures This course equips you with the tools and mindsets needed to make sense of interconnected challenges and design meaningful change. You will develop foundational knowledge in systems thinking and strategic foresight, learning to analyse dyna… | RMIT University | — |
| ENVI1244 | Eco-Literacy In this course, you will learn to see language and literacy as part of the world rather than separate from it. You will develop practical eco-literacy skills to address real sustainability challenges through reading, writing, observing, lis… | RMIT University | — |
| ENVI1245 | Regenerative Design This course introduces you to regenerative design principles and how to apply them to real-world sustainability challenges. You will learn from nature's adaptive strategies while exploring concepts like circular economy, innovative design p… | RMIT University | — |