Global Change Science Major  - Overview

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Offered By:

ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment and ANU College of Pysical Sciences

Academic Contact:

Dr Michael Roderick and Professor Brendan Mackey

Areas of Interest:

Earth and Marine Sciences and Resource Management and Environmental Science


Requirements

A major in Global Change Science will require a minimum of 42 units of courses listed in (a), (b) and (c) and requiring:

(a) no more than 12 units of courses chosen from:

and one of:

(b) no more than 12 units of courses chosen from:

  • BIOL2121 Plants: Genes to Environment 
  • BIOL2122 Marine Biology
  • EMSC2019 Marine Paleontology
  • EMSC2015 Chemistry of the Earth and Oceans
  • MATH2305 Differential Equations and Applications or MATH2405 Maths Methods 1 Honours: Ordinary Differential Equations and Advanced Vector Calculus
  • ENVS2004 Weather, Climate & Fire
  • ENVS2015 Introduction to Remote Sensing and GIS

(c) at least 18 units of courses chosen from: 

  • BIOL3125 Plants and Global Climate Change
  • BIOL3151 Conservation Biology
  • EMSC3023 Global Cycles II: The Modern Oceans
  • EMSC3026 Environmental Geoscience
  • EMSC3027 Global Cycles and Paleooceanography
  • EMSC3029 Ocean and Atmosphere Modelling
  • MATH3133 Environmental Mathematics or MATH3134 Environmental Mathematics (Honours)
  • ENVS3001 Climate Change Science & Policy Field School
  • ENVS3008 Fire in the Environment
  • ENVS3013 Climatology
  • ENVS3020 Climate Change Science & Policy
  • ENVS3026 Geomorphology: landscape evolution under changing climates
  • ENVS3029 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction
  • One of BIOL3138 Special Topics in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics; EMSC3050 Special Topics; ENVS3010 Independent Research Project