Hello I'm Michael Whelan and I'm the course coordinator for the Bachelor of Environmental Science.
The Bachelor of Environmental Science has been running now for well over 20 years. Many of our
graduates have gone on to get great positions in Fisheries, Department of
Primary Industries and National Parks. Our graduates also go into private
industry working in with organisations that do things like environmental impact
statements, monitoring road developments and those sorts of things. One of the
things that we strive to do with our degree is make sure that our graduates
are up-to-date with current industry practice so many of our students spend
eight weeks working with an industry partner. That's a great transition
between being a student and then becoming a professional working in
environmental science and management. In the degree we've got four majors. The
first major is coastal management. In that major what we do is focus on the
impact that increasing population has on the coastal zone. The second one is
environmental resource management and in that major what we do is that we focus
on things like catchment management, mine rehabilitation, the impact that
agriculture has on the environment. The third one is fisheries and aquaculture
management. We not only focus on aquaculture management, we focus on
recreational and commercial fisheries as well, and in that degree we focus a lot
on mitigation and habitat management. Waste management and resource recovery
is a big priority now and it's going to be a priority into the future. What we've
done is designed a major which produces multi-skilled professionals for this
growing area of Environmental Management.