Skip Navigation | ANU Home | Search ANU | Student Admin | International

Overview | Summary of Courses

Offered By:	Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Law, School of Art, Faculty of Asian Studies, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, and ANU College of Pysical Sciences
Academic Contact:	Dr Bruce Doran
Areas of Interest:	Geography

Geography deals with human-environment interactions. Geography is about Earth's diversity, its resources, and humankind's survival on the planet. Geographers analyse the associations of things and events that give special character to particular places; the interconnections between different areas; and the working of complex systems through time. The discipline integrates natural and social science approaches to provide an integrative approach to the study of environmental problems and their solution. Such approaches include the study of economic and social goals and processes that determine strategies of resource use and ecosystem management. The Geography Major provides students with the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of a wide range of geographic issues. The major offers many opportunities for experiential and field-based learning, and its completion at the appropriate level is good preparation for Honours in Geography (see the relevant section of the Undergraduate Handbook).

Requirements

This major will consist of a minimum of 42 units from courses listed in (a), (b) and (c) and requiring:

(a) no more than 12 units of:

•      EMSC1006 The Blue Planet
•      PASI2001 Learning Oceania
•      ENVS1001 Resources, Environment and Society
•      ENVS1003 Environment and Society Research Methods
•      ENVS1004 Australia's Environment
•      ENVS1008 Contemporary Issues in Asia and Australia

(b) no more than 12 units of the following courses

•      ENVS2004 Weather, Climate and Fire
•      ENVS2007 Economics for the Environment
•      ENVS2008 Hydrology for Natural Resource Management
•      ENVS2011 Human Ecology
•      ENVS2012 Cities and their Hinterlands
•      ENVS2013 Environment and Development
•      ENVS2014 Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability
•      ENVS2015 Introduction to Remote sensing & GIS
•      ENVS2016 Landforms and Soils: Landscape Systems 2 
•      ENVS2017 Vietnam Field School
•      ENVS2019 Vegetation Ecology: Landscape Systems 1
•      PASI2003 Themes in Contemporary Melanesia

(c) at least 18 units of the following courses

•      ENVS3002 Soil Resources
•      ENVS3004 Land and Catchment Management
•      ENVS3005 Water Resource Management
•      ENVS3007 Participatory Resource Management: Addressing Environmental Conflict
•      ENVS3008 Fire in the Environment
•      ENVS3010 Independent Research Project
•      ENVS3013 Climatology
•      ENVS3018 Policy and Institutional Analysis in Environment and Sustainability
•      ENVS3020 Climate Change Science and Policy
•      ENVS3024 Applied Geographic Information Science
•      ENVS3026 Geomorphology: Landscape evolution under changing climates
•      ENVS3028 Environmental Policy and Planning
•      ENVS3029 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction
•      ENVS3033 International Environmental Policy
•      ENVS3031 Murray-Darling Field School
•      ENVS3001 Climate Change Science & Policy Field School

It is also possible to complete a double major in Geography by completing 10 of the above listed courses including no more than 2 of the courses listed under (a) and at least 6 listed under (c).