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Environmental Studies
 Environmental Studies

Description

Environmental Studies is concerned with the historical, theoretical, and policy implications of the human construction and transformation of the environment. There is a focus on contemporary environmental concerns, including how and why these concerns have risen to the forefront of current policy agendas, how social, economic and technological systems mediate our interaction with the environment, how these systems vary across the world and evolve with time and the ways in which environmental decisions are made and controversies resolved.

Today's society is faced with a vast number of environmental dilemmas - such as air pollution, depletion of the ozone layer, the serious risks to river health that come from intense human use of water resources, the large amounts of waste that industrial society creates, and threats to local and global biodiversity. A program of study in Environmental Studies at UNSW takes an interdisciplinary focus, offering geographical, legal, economic, ethical, historical and political perspectives for understanding the environment.

Environmental Studies opens up diverse career opportunities, from research and journalism to policy-making in government agencies to industry management or community consultancy and dispute resolution. It also helps to develop valuable generic skills that will be useful in any professional setting.

Studying Environmental Studies at UNSW

At the present time, teaching and research in Environmental Studies is spread between a number of Schools in the Faculty of Arts and the Facuty of Science. Environmental Studies is offered by the School of History and Philosophy (http://hist-phil.arts.unsw.edu.au/) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science. The School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (www.bees.unsw.edu.au) provides a focus for environmental teaching and is the principal contributor at the undergraduate level and a major contributor to postgraduate programs. The Institute of Environmental Studies
http://www.ies.unsw.edu.au/ has responsibility for the successful Master in Environmental Management program.

Please refer to the tables below which outlines the options available for a specialisation in Environmental Studies. Other related programs/plans can also be found under following other specialisations:

Biological Science
Chemistry
Climate Science
Geography
Marine Science
Oceanography
Microbiology Immunology



Earth Science can be studied in the following Programs 

Program Code & Name At the Level of Plan
3932 Environmental Science/Arts Major ENVSF13932
3988 Environmental Science Major ENVSF13988
   

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Environment and Society can be studied in the following Programs 

Program Code & Name At the Level of Plan
3970 Science Major ENVSS13970
   

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Environmental Studies can be studied in the following Programs 

Program Code & Name At the Level of Plan
3400 Arts Major
Combined Honours
ENVPA13400
ENVPAC3400
3402 Media and Communications Major ENVPA13402
3403 Arts Minor
Major
ENVPA23403
ENVPC13403
3420 Social Science Major ENVPB13420
3427 Music/Arts Major ENVPC13427
3428 Media (Media Production) Minor ENVPA23428
3429 Media (Comms & Journalism) Minor ENVPA23429
3433 Media (Screen & Sound) Minor ENVPA23433
3525 Commerce/Arts Minor
Major
ENVPA23525
ENVPC13525
3526 Economics/Arts Minor
Major
ENVPA23526
ENVPC13526
3539 Commerce (Liberal Studies) Major ENVPC13539
3841 Arts/Medicine Major ENVPC13841
3930 Science/Arts Major ENVPC13930
3931 Advanced Science/Arts Major ENVPC13931
3933 Advanced Mathematics/Arts Major ENVPC13933
3935 Science/Social Science Major ENVPB13935
3936 Adv Science/Social Science Major ENVPB13936
3970 Science Minor ENVPA23970
4035 Social Work/Arts Major ENVPC14035
4760 Arts / Law Major ENVPC14760
4761 Social Science / Law Major ENVPB14761
4806 Art Theory/Arts Major ENVPC14806
4807 Art Theory/Social Science Major ENVPB14807
4812 Fine Arts/Arts Major
Major
ENVPA14812
ENVPC14812
   

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