Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science

Rules Variation Summary for 2025

Summary of Changes for 2025

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

No changes for 2025.

Nil.

Rules Variation Summary for 2024

Summary of Changes for 2024

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

No changes for 2024.

Nil.

Rules Variation Summary for 2023

Summary of Changes for 2023

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

Additional Trimester 3 Part-Time offering

Update to Learning Outcomes

Program of Study:

  • New majors - General Program, Catchment Ecology and Management, Vegetation Ecology, Natural Resource Management, Spatial Landscape Assessment

No impact to students.

Rules Variation Summary for 2022

Summary of Changes for 2022

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

There are no changes for 2022

No impact to students.

Rules Variation Summary for 2021

Summary of Changes for 2021

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

There are no changes for 2021

No impact to students.

Rules Variation Summary for 2020

Summary of Changes for 2020

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

There are no changes for 2020

No impact to students.

Rules Variation Summary for 2019

Summary of Changes for 2019

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

Listed Units:

  • RSNR404/504 – title change to Innovation, Projects and People

Note unit title change

Rules Variation Summary for 2018

Summary of Changes for 2018

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

Program of Study – Rules (a) and (b)

Listed Units:

  • BOTY390, ECOL520 and EVOL501 have been added
  • ECOL300 code and title changed to ERS301 Applied Research Skills in Environmental and Rural Science

Current students may complete under their current rules or apply to transfer to the 2018 rules subject to meeting the admission requirements.

Note unit and title changes.

Rules Variation Summary for 2017

Summary of Changes for 2017

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

Program of Study – Rule (a)

Listed Units:

  • Credit points changed from ‘And complete 24 credit points with at least 18 credit points at 400-level and not more than 6 credit points at 500 level or above’ to; and complete 24 credit points with at least 18 credit points at 400-level or above.
  • OSSE300 and OSSE500 have been added

Program of Study – Rule (b)

Listed Units:

  • Credit points changed from ‘Complete 24 credit points with at least 18 credit points at 400-level and not more than 6 credit points at 500 level or above’ to; complete 24 credit points with at least 18 credit points at 400-level or above.
  • OSSE300 and OSSE500 have been added

Current students may complete under their current rules or apply to transfer to the 2017 rules subject to meeting the admission requirements.

Note unit changes.

Note changes to credit points

Current students will be given permission to include more than one 500 level unit on request.

Rules Variation Summary for 2016

Summary of Changes for 2016

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

Program of Study

Rule (a)

Listed Units

  • MATH120 and GEPL505 have been withdrawn
  • MTHS120 and SOIL431/531 have been added
  • STAT100 title changed to Introduction to Statistical Modelling
  • ECOL203 and ECOL403 title changed to Ecology – Populations to Ecosystems
  • ERS381/581 title changed to Project Report in Engineering and Environmental and Rural Science

Rule (b)

Listed Units:

  • ECOL403 title changed to Ecology – Populations to Ecosystems
  • ERS381/581 title changed to Project Report in Engineering and Environmental and Rural Science
  • GEPL505 has been withdrawn
  • SOIL431/531 has been added

Note unit, unit code and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Subject to meeting new admission requirements, current students may complete under their current course rules or apply to transfer to the new rules from 2016

Rules Variation Summary for 2015

Summary of Changes for 2015

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

There have been major changes to the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science for 2015.

  • The course credit points have changed from 24 cps to 48 cps
  • There are now two levels of admission within the Program of Study:
    Candidates admitted under Rule (a): 48 cps to complete
    Candidates admitted under Rule (b): 24 cps Block Advanced Standing plus 24 cps to complete
  • Withdrawn Majors: General Program and Geographic Information Science
  • Details of units in the 2015 programs of study can be found in the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science course information for 2015.

Units with unit code and/or title changes:

  • BOTY370 title changed to Mycology and Plant Pathology
  • ECOL300 title changed to The Research Process
  • EM334/534 title changed to Introduction to GIS and Spatial Thinking
  • EM432/532 code changed to EM436/536
  • SOIL220 code changed to SOIL222

Note unit code and/or title changes

Note change to course credit points

Note Course Requirement changes

Note withdrawn Majors

Subject to meeting new admission requirements, current students may complete under their current course rules or apply to transfer to the new rules from 2015

Rules Variation Summary for 2014

Summary of Changes for 2014

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

  • There are no changes for 2014

Nil

Rules Variation Summary for 2013

Summary of Changes for 2013

Implications for current Graduate Certificate in Environmental Science students

General Program

  • CANI310/510 has been added

Note unit change