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Offered By:	ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, ANU College of Pysical Sciences, ANU College of Science, and ANU Colleges of Science
Academic Contact:	Dr Bear McPhail and Professor Tony Jakeman
Areas of Interest:	Earth and Marine Sciences, Policy Studies, and Resource Management and Environmental Science

Water is emerging as a critical issue for societies and the environment in Australia, in our region, and in many other parts of the world. The major and double major in Water Science and Policy provides students with the opportunity to develop knowledge central to the understanding and management of water resources, and to develop expertise and undertake research relevant to one of four theme areas associated with water: earth and environmental sciences; environmental modelling; environmental policy: and water chemistry and quality. It is intended that students select courses from one or two of the four theme areas, which draw on the University's substantial research activities.

Requirements

A minimum of 42 units of courses including:

(a)  no more than 12 units from ENVS1004 Australia's Environment and one of:

• CHEM1101 Chemistry 1
• EMSC1006 The Blue Planet
• MATH1014/1116 Mathematics and Applications
• ENVS1001 Resources Environment and Society

(b)  at least 12 units from ENVS2008 Hydrology for Natural Resource Management and one or more of:

• CHEM2204 Environmental Chemistry
• EMSC2014 Surficial Processes
• MATH2305/2405 Differential Equations
• SCOM2001 Science Communication or ENVS2007 Economics for the Environment
• ENVS2004 Weather, Climate and Fire

(c)  at least 18 units, comprising one or both of ENVS3005 Water Resource Management and EMSC3025 Groundwater, plus one or two of:

• EMSC3023 Global Cycles II: The Modern Oceans or EMSC3027 Global Cycles and Palaeoceanography or EMSC3028 Coastal Environmental Earth Science
• EMSC3050 Special Topics or ENVS3010 Independent Research Project
• MATH3133 Environmental Modelling and Integrated Assessment
• ENVS3004 Land and Catchment Management or ENVS3013 Climatology
• ENVS3028 Environmental Policy and Planning or ENVS3031 MDB Field School or ENVS3018 Policy and Institutional Analysis for Sustainability
• ENVS3034 Water Quality and Environmental Flow Assessment.