Bachelor of Environmental Science/Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Environmental Science/Bachelor of Laws
The Bachelor of Environmental Science/Bachelor of Laws degree seeks to produce graduates who demonstrate a multi-disciplinary scientific understanding and sound knowledge of regional, national and global environmental issues, and how these impact on the environment and its management. Career outcomes As a graduate of this program you can expect to…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Bachelor of Environmental Science/Bachelor of Laws degree seeks to produce graduates who demonstrate a multi-disciplinary scientific understanding and sound knowledge of regional, national and global environmental issues, and how these impact on the environment and its management.
Career outcomes
As a graduate of this program you can expect to leave with a strong practical and theoretical understanding of environmental science and law, which can open the door to a variety of traditional and emerging careers. You could consider opportunities in the private sector, state or federal agencies and local government, including:
• legal aid agencies, advocacy organisations and commercial law firms
• government departments
• environmental protection
• environmental consultancy
• wildlife management
• water and land management
• ecotourism
• research and conservation
• policy development and analysis.
Learning Outcomes:
1. BEnvSc component: demonstrate an understanding of diverse approaches to environment science, including transdisciplinary approaches to identifying and conceptualising environmental and sustainability challenges through different frameworks for knowing, including reflection on their own and values and value of others including the ethical positions, interests and values of indigenous peoples;
2. exhibit depth and breadth of scientific knowledge of Environmental Science by demonstrating well-developed knowledge of the conceptual and theoretical scientific basis of environmental issues and their drivers at various scales; interdependencies between human societies and complex environments through holistic systems thinking;
3. critically analyse and solve environmental problems by gathering, synthesising and critically evaluating information from a range of sources; designing and planning investigations; selecting and applying practical and theoretical field or laboratory techniques or tools in order to conduct investigations; and collecting, accurately recording, interpreting and drawing valid conclusions from scientific data;
4. be effective communicators of environmental science by conveying scientific results, information or arguments, to a diverse range of audiences in a range off contexts, and using written, electronic, visual and oral delivery modes; inclusive of engaging with indigenous approaches to environmental and sustainability challenges; and
5. demonstrate an ethical professional, public and personal conduct by having capacity for accountability for their own learning and scientific work though reflection on their own learning and practice; demonstrating responsibility and safety as an individual and in team contexts; and demonstrating knowledge of the regulatory frameworks relevant to multidisciplinary areas of environmental science.
REQUIREMENTS
Entry is based on Australian Year 12 equivalence. English Language Requirements: An IELTS (Academic): overall score – 6.5, Listening, Reading, Speaking – 6.0, Writing – 6.5; TOEFL Internet-based test overall score -91, Listening, Reading, Speaking – 20, Writing – 22.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The University of New England was originally formed in 1938 as the New England University College, a College of the University of Sydney. It became fully independent in 1954. The university is located on several sites in Armidale, NSW. All the programs are offered via the four faculties: Arts; Economics, Business and Law; Education, Health and Professional Studies; and The Sciences; these faculties incorporate 18 teaching schools. Research is offered in the areas of rural science, agricultural economics, geology, educational administration, linguistics, archaeology, etc.
