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Graduate Diploma in Environmental Change Management

Program summary
Program overview
Admission requirements
Program structure
Program requirements
Enquiries

Program summary

Award abbreviation: GDEnvChangeMgt
Degree type: postgraduate coursework program
Model of study: on campus
Duration: 1 year part-time
Fee type: domestic fee-paying places 
Total courses: 4
Commence: Semester 1 or Semester 2 (not available until Semester 2, 2007)
CRICOS code: not applicable

Program overview

Graduates of this program will be well equipped to meet existing and emerging professional challenges and will be able to:

  • appreciate international trends in environmental assessment and management
  • better understand international and national obligations, commitments to environmental assessment and management
  • proactively address the implications of environmental and climate change
  • utilize the integrated adaptive assessment and management tools and techniques designed to achieve continuous improvement in environmental outcomes
  • more effectively assess and manage complex industrial, infrastructure and urban development proposals using statutory and best practice processes and procedures
  • utilise environmental simulation modelling and decision support tools and prepare assessment and management documentation that meets professional and statutory requirements, and
  • gain accreditation as an EA/EIA practitioner from the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ) or equivalent overseas accreditation body

To be eligible for entry into this program, students will have completed the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Change Management.

Admission requirements

To be eligible for entry into this program, students will have completed the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Change Management. A student entering the Graduation Diploma program will normally be required to hold an undergraduate degree, or equivalent, from a recognised higher education institution. Entry by non-graduates who have extensive relevant industry experience may be considered on a case-by-case basis by the Dean, Faculty of Science, Health and Education.

Program structure

Required courses
ENS700 Environmental and Resource Economics
ENS705 Using Spatial Information
Plus select 1 course from:
ENS744 Socio-economic Impact Assessment and Planning
ENS701 Estuary and Wetland Systems Dynamics
ENS747 Marine Resource Management

Elective courses
Plus select 1 course from:
ENS702 Economic Tools and Techniques
ENS703 Governance, Engagement and Capacity Building
ENS704 Applied Regional and Community Engagement Project
ENS706 Applied Spatial Analysis and Decision Making
ENS707 Professional Research Project
ENS709 Environmental and Sustainability Auditing Project
ENS715 Applied Climatic and Hydrological Systems Project
ENS725 Applied Coastal Systems Project

Program requirements and notes

  1. Refer to the Academic Rules.
  2. Refer to explanation of terms.

Enquiries 

Associate Professor Peter Waterman
Tel: +61 0418 628431
peter.waterman@usc.edu.au

Faculty of Science, Health and Education
Tel: +61 7 5430 2869
Email: sheinfo@usc.edu.au