Successful completion of one of the following:
a recognised bachelor degree or equivalent international qualification in a related field; or
a recognised bachelor degree in an unrelated field plus completion of a graduate diploma in a related field or equivalent international qualification.
IELTS Academic Module, A minimum overall score of 6.5 with no band less than 6.0.
Cambridge Advanced English (CAE), A minimum overall score of 176, with no skill below 169.
Common European Framework Certificate of English Proficiency, A minimum overall grade of C1, valid for three years from the date of the test to the date of commencement at CDU.
Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic module, A minimum overall score of 58 with no score lower than 50.
TOEFL Internet-based Test (iBT), A minimum overall score of 79 with a minimum writing score of 21.
The Master of Environmental Management complements existing science qualifications if you are a graduate starting out or an established professional looking to broaden or deepen your professional skill set.
You will focus on the principles and practices of environmental management, particularly in the context of wet-dry and semi-arid tropical ecosystems and arid landscapes. The topic areas covered by CDU's Master of Environmental Management include livelihoods, spatial science and analysis, and ecology and management of natural resources. Unit selection is flexible between and within these areas. Professional placements and remote Australia and international intensives are also available.
The broad skills, concepts and applications explored in this course are also relevant even if you are working in other ecosystems, and includes a focus on the social context within which environmental management takes place.
The course is flexible and caters to your individual needs. It balances required knowledge and technical skills, develops conceptual skills, and challenges you to apply them to natural resource management within its complex social context.
CRICOS CODE: 075071J
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Specific requirements
Compulsory Core units totalling 40 credit points as detailed below.
ENV509Ecology and Management of Tropical Forests and Savannas
ENV511Statistical Methods for Impact Analysis
ENV513Environmental Planning and Policy
ENV521Community Engagement for Biosecurity and Natural Resource Management
Specialist Elective units totalling 40 credit points from the list of specialisation detailed below.
LIVELIHOODS
ENV507Fire Ecology and Management in Northern Australia
ENV517Natural Resources and Indigenous Livelihoods (compulsory intensive)
ENV519 Aquatic Resource Management (compulsory intensive) (next offered in 2022)
SID500Professional Practice in Environmental Management (WIL placement)
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
ENV501Tropical Invaders and Biosecurity
ENV503Ecological Restoration and Conservation
ENV515Desert Field Ecology (compulsory intensive)
ENV516 Ecosystem Function: Field Studies in North Australia (compulsory intensive)
ENV520Wildlife Management
SID500Professional Practice in Environmental Management (WIL placement)
SPATIAL SCIENCE
ENV502Remote Sensing
ENV506Environmental Monitoring and Modelling (optional intensive)
ENV508Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Thinking
ENV518Analysing and Synthesising Spatial Data
SID500Professional Practice in Environmental Management (WIL placement)
GENERAL
Students selecting this option should choose from among all units within the specialist electives.
Note: Students who have graduated from CDU and completed undergraduate units with the same titles as those listed in Specialist Electives above will not be able to take those units and must make an alternative unit selection.
Units totalling 40 credit points from available postgraduate units on offer at the University. Students are encouraged to seek advice from the course coordinator on unit selection.
Research units totalling 40 credit points.
Students may enrol in the full-time or part-time option as detailed below:
ENV840Research Project #40 (for students undertaking the project FT over one semester) (40cp)
ENV820Research Project #20 (a repeatable unit for students undertaking the project PT over two semesters) (20cp, repeatable)
Graduating from this course may lead to a career in areas of research or environmental and natural resources management, within regional natural resource management agencies, environmental NGOs, Indigenous natural resources management organisations, consultancy firms and the resources sector.
OSHC: 530 ($) AUD per year
