STUDENTS COMMENCING IN SEMESTER 1
The Recommended Study Plan provided below is suitable for a student enrolling in a full-time study load. Students entering this course with advanced standing, or wishing to vary their study plan due to work, personal, financial or other reasons should use the table as a guide to create an individual study plan.
When designing an individual study plan:
- maintain the basic order in which units are to be attempted; and
- check the prerequisite and assumed knowledge for each unit as some units assume you have completed foundation unit/s in the unit area at a lower level.
| Legend: | CO = Core Unit | SE = Specialist Elective | E = General Elective |
Full-Time Study Plan
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
| Year 1 |
| ENV102 The Diversity of Life | CO | ENV101 Earth Systems | CO |
LAL100 Language, Literacy and Sustainability (replaces CUC100) OR
CUC106 Design and Innovation: Communicating Technology | CO | ENV103 Environmental Issues | CO |
| IAS201 Cultural Capabilities (replaces CUC107) | CO | IAS144 Indigenous Land and Resources (replaces ATI140 from 2020) | CO |
| ENV201 Introductory Ecology | CO | SBI209 Design and Analysis of Biological Studies | CO |
| Year 2 |
| ENV208 Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Thinking | CO | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Year 3 |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Elective | E |
| Elective | E | Elective | E |
Note 1: The order that specialist electives and electives are taken can vary.
Note 2: Students completing a single major can make up their additional 60CP of specialist electives from any of the majors.
Note 3: Additional Specialist Elective units can be taken as Electives.
| SPECIALIST ELECTIVE AVAILABILITY |
| Semester 1 | Intensive Period 4 | Semester 2 | Summer Semester / Intensive Period 6 |
| BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION |
ENV300 Wildlife Management
ENV301 Tropical Invaders and Biosecurity
ENV302 Organisms and Environmental Change
ENV311 Practical Statistics and Data Reasoning
ENV315 Desert Field Ecology | | ENV204 Ecosystems, Evolution and Biodiversity (new title from 2019)
ENV206 Environmental Physiology (no longer offered from 2026)
ENV207 Fire Ecology and Management in North Australia
ENV209 Fauna and Flora Survey and Monitoring
ENV303 Ecological Restoration and Conservation | |
| SPATIAL AND QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY (new from 2023) |
ENV202 Introductory Remote Sensing
HIT234 Database Concepts
ENV311 Practical Statistics and Data Reasoning
| | HIT140 Foundations of Data Science
ENV209 Flora and Fauna Survey and Monitoring
IAS354 Impact Assessment and Management of Cultural Site (not offered 2026) | ENV306 Environmental Monitoring and Modelling (Int-6)
ENV318 Solving Real-World Spatial Problems (Int-6) |
| WATER AND LANDSCAPES |
SCH101 Chemical Concepts Chemistry OR SCH104 Introductory Chemistry A
ENV202 Introductory Remote Sensing
ENV211 Aquatic Ecology: Biota and Processes (no longer available)
ENV311 Practical Statistics and Data Reasoning
ENV313 Hydrology and Catchment Processes | ENV316 Exploring Ecosystem Dynamics: Field Studies in Northern Australia
| ENV210 Aquatic Ecosystems Chemistry (unit title change 2022)
IAS254 Partnership and Engagement in Indigenous Land and Sea Management (replaces CIK230)
ENV312 Aquatic Resource Management
ENV317 Natural Resource and Indigenous Livelihoods (not offered 2024, next avail 2025) |
ENV306 Environmental Monitoring and Modelling (Int-6)
ENV318 Solving Real-World Spatial Problems (Int-6)
ENV323 Environmental Microbiology (SS)
|
| ECO-CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT |
IAS225 Cultural Resource and Site Management (replaces ATI221)
IAS223 Representing and Recording Country (replaces CIK210)
IAS353 Indigenous Cultures and the Environment (replaces CIK240)
IAS355 Indigenous Knowledges and Wellbeing
CIK341 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Land and Sea Management (no longer available)
| IAS353 Indigenous Cultures and the Environment (replaces CIK240)
IAS321 Indigenous Sovereignty and Challenges of Reconciliation | ATI160 Cultural Site Management (no longer available)
IAS142 Ethics and Protocols in Indigenous Contexts
IAS254 Partnership and Engagement in Indigenous Land and Sea Management (replaces CIK230)
ENV317 Natural Resources and Indigenous Livelihoods
IAS321 Indigenous Sovereignty and Challenges of Reconciliation
IAS322 Research with Indigenous People (replaces INR200)
IAS352 Practices and Skills in Indigenous Community Work
IAS354 Impact Assessment and Management of Cultural Sites (not offered 2026) (replaces ATI321)
INR300 Indigenous Research Ethics and Methodologies (no longer available) |
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| PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND RESEARCH UNITS |
SID300 Professional Practice in Science 1 (unit title change 2026)
SID315 Professional Practice in Science 2 (new unit from 2026) | | SID300 Professional Practice in Science 1 (unit title change 2026)
SID315 Professional Practice in Science 2 (new unit from 2026) | SID305 Environmental Field Intensives (SS)
SID310 Communication and Engagement in Science and Technology INT-6) |
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STUDENTS COMMENCING IN SEMESTER 2
The Recommended Study Plan provided below is suitable for a student enrolling in a full-time study load. Students entering this course with advanced standing, or wishing to vary their study plan due to work, personal, financial or other reasons should use the table as a guide to create an individual study plan.
When designing an individual study plan:
- maintain the basic order in which units are to be attempted; and
- check the prerequisite and assumed knowledge for each unit as some units assume you have completed foundation unit/s in the unit area at a lower level.
| Legend: | CO = Core Unit | SE = Specialist Elective | E = General Elective |
Full-Time Study Plan
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
| Year 1 |
| | | LAL100 Language, Literacy and Sustainability (replaces CUC100) OR
CUC106 Design and Innovation: Communicating Technology | CO |
| | | ENV101 Earth Systems | CO |
| | | ENV103 Environmental Issues | CO |
| | | SBI209 Design and Analysis of Biological Studies | CO |
| Year 2 |
| ENV102 The Diversity of Life | CO | IAS144 Indigenous Land and Resources (replaces ATI140 from 2020) | CO |
| IAS201 Cultural Capabilities (replaces CUC107) | CO | Specialist Elective | SE |
| ENV208 Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Thinking | CO | Specialist Elective | SE |
| ENV201 Introductory Ecology | SE | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Year 3 |
| Specialist Elective | CO | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Elective | E |
| Year 4 |
| Specialist Elective | SE | | |
| Specialist Elective | SE | | |
| Elective | E | | |
| Elective | E | | |
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STUDENTS COMMENCING IN SUMMER SEMESTER
The Recommended Study Plan provided below is suitable for a student enrolling in a full-time study load. Students entering this course with advanced standing, or wishing to vary their study plan due to work, personal, financial or other reasons should use the table as a guide to create an individual study plan.
When designing an individual study plan:
- maintain the basic order in which units are to be attempted; and
- check the prerequisite and assumed knowledge for each unit as some units assume you have completed foundation unit/s in the unit area at a lower level.
| Legend: | CO = Core Unit | SE = Specialist Elective | E = General Elective |
Full-Time Study Plan
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Summer Semester |
| Year 1 |
| | | | | IAS201 Cultural Capabilities (replaces CUC107) | CO |
| | | | | LAL100 Language, Literacy and Sustainability (replaces CUC100) OR
CUC106 Design and Innovation: Communicating Technology | CO |
| Year 2 |
| ENV102 The Diversity of Life | CO | ENV101 Earth Systems | CO | | |
| ENV208 Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Thinking | CO | ENV103 Environmental Issues | CO | | |
| ENV201 Introductory Ecology | CO | IAS144 Indigenous Land and Resources (replaces ATI140 from 2020) | CO | | |
| | | SBI209 Design and Analysis of Biological Studies | CO | | |
| Year 3 |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE | | |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE | | |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE | | |
| | | Specialist Elective | SE | | |
| Year 4 |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE | | |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Specialist Elective | SE | | |
| Specialist Elective | SE | Elective | E | | |
| Elective | E | Elective | E | | |
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