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- 25 Jun 23
Australia’s fourth oldest university, the University of Tasmania, is highly regarded internationally for teaching and academic excellence. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and more than 50 postgraduate programs across a range of disciplines. The university offers students a diverse range of opportunities, the chance to learn from leading experts, and excellent preparation for their future careers.
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Core subjects
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Degree details
Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:
- Explain the methodologies of science and the role and relevance of science in society.
- Apply in-depth knowledge and skills in one or more scientific disciplines to provide specialist advice and functions in a range of contexts.
- Design and implement scientific investigations, including quantitative analysis and critical evaluation of results.
- Communicate scientific results, information, and arguments, to a range of audiences, for a range of purposes, and using a variety of modes.
- Apply scientific methods and knowledge ethically, responsibly, respectfully and safely in research or workplace settings guided by relevant regulatory and professional frameworks.
Preparing you for a range of sustainability themed jobs in a range of fields and careers, as well as pursuing a passion, you’ll develop specialist expertise across physical and social sciences and humanities.
Potential roles provide opportunities to positively impact the environment and your community, including government project officers, sustainability and environmental advisors and planning.
Higher education via OUA
Successful completion of any 4 OUA open access subjects of study at the equivalent AQF level, unless otherwise specified.
Higher education
Applicants must have completed at least two subjects of study (equivalent to 25 UTAS credit points) within an Associate Degree level course or Higher; OR
Completed the UTAS University Preparation Program (or an equivalent qualification offered by an Australian University); OR
Completed DUS (Diploma of University Studies) any pathway or equivalent.
Secondary education
ATAR: 65 or higher
VET studies
Successful completion of certificate IV or higher
Work and Life
Domestic Applicants with work and life experience: If you have not successfully completed senior secondary, tertiary or TAFE/VET study, but have extensive or sustained work experience.
The University of Tasmania grants credit and recognition of prior learning that may include formal and/or informal prior learning. More information is available here.
https://www.utas.edu.au/study/apply/admission-requirements/recognition-of-prior-learning
With world-class expertise in facets of sustainability and informed by international and local research, practice and theory, this program allows students to explore the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills that underpin the development of sustainable societies and solutions.
With an emphasis on student-led and problem-based learning, you will benefit from international and local research and Tasmania’s unique and globally important ecosystems.
You will investigate sustainable business practices in natural resource and science reliant industries. This includes practices that promote a sustainable business model and minimise the negative impact on social, economic, environmental and cultural values. Through industry-based examples, you will identify problems and provide solutions to sustainability challenges.
Recommended Study Pattern
The Bachelor of Science requires the completion of 24 subjects comprising:
- 8 core subjects
- 8 Discipline Elective subjects
- 8 Elective UTAS Elective subjects
You may complete any subject from the Bachelor of Science available in the Discipline stream as a Discipline Elective so long as you meet any pre-requisites.
For students undertaking full-time study the following study pattern is recommended:
Year 1. 8 subjects in first year including:
- 2 Introductory subjects
- Choose 1 subject from
- TAS-HEJ111 Communicating Sustainability
- TAS-HUM111 Engaging with Sustainability
- Choose 1 subject from
- TAS-XBR112 Humans: Earth Shapers
- TAS-KGA171 Global Geographies of Change
- TAS-ZAS118 Sustainability
- Choose 1 subject from
- For articulating Diploma of Sustainable Living students only
- TAS-KGA107 Local Lives for a Sustainable Planet
- 4 Discipline subjects
- 2 UTAS Electives
Year 2. 8 subjects in second year including:
- 2 Intermediate subjects
- TAS-KGA207 Systems Thinking
- Choose 1 subject from
- TAS-HSS207 Human Rights and Global Justice
- TAS-KGA223 Environmental Management
- 2 Discipline subjects
- 4 UTAS Electives
Year 3. 8 subjects in third year including:
- 4 Advanced subjects
- TAS-KGA301 Change Agents for Sustainability
- Choose 3 subjects from:
- TAS-CXA322 Food, Health and Environment
- TAS-HGA343 Globalisation and Society: Power, Inequality and Conflict
- TAS-KGA308 Political Ecologies of Development
- TAS-KGA319 Science and Policy for Energy Futures
- 2 Discipline subjects
- 2 UTAS Electives
Award Requirements
Satisfactory completion of 24 subjects, as required in the schedule, within 3-7 years from commencement.
Choose your subjects
Electives
Your electives can be used to add breadth to your degree, by exploring a variety of different subject areas from within or outside the College of Sciences and Engineering. Alternatively, you can deepen your engagement with specific subject areas, for example, by completing additional subjects in the same discipline as your core subjects or related fields.
You can also use this space to complete an optional second major which may be a second major chosen from another program noting some exclusions apply. Not all majors can be taken by students in different programs.
Students outside Tasmania, please note, you will need to contact the subject coordinator if you wish to study KGA331.
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