Master of Environmental Management
Master of Environmental Management
Abbreviation: MEnvMgt
Course code: S7D
Course contact (faculty or school) (03) 6226 2458
Introductory comments
The Master of Environmental Management is currently under review. Please check the
web version of the Handbook for any changes.
Lecturers: Dr PR Hay, Dr PB McQuillan, Dr JA Russell, Dr LK Kriwoken, Dr E Stratford,
Prof JB Kirkpatrick, and others.
The Master of Environmental Management (MEnvMgt) is offered internally by the School
of Geography and Environmental Studies at the Hobart campus.
The coursework-plus-thesis program aims to attract people who are interested in
environmental management, or who anticipate responsibility for environmental policy
formation, or a role in environmental education. The course extends the professional
expertise of people working in such fields as agriculture, community welfare, economics,
education, engineering, forestry, law, medicine, planning, public health, political
economy, science, and resource management. The course is of two years duration for
full-time study or up to four years part-time.
Full-time students
The course runs for two calendar years. In the first year, students take the four coursework
units. The major research project constitutes the work of the second year.
Part-time students
Part-time students may undertake the degree on a unit basis, project work being done in
the student’s own time.
Prospective part-time students are invited to discuss ways of undertaking the course with
the Coordinator.
External Study is not normally available for the coursework degree.
Admission & prerequisites
Applications for direct entry to the course are considered from those who have a suitable
tertiary qualification or its equivalent. Applicants with a university degree and substantial
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professional experience (a minimum of two years’ appropriate employment) are directly
admissible, as are honours graduates and graduates with a four-year professional
qualification. Diplomas and other such awards can be counted towards the four-year
qualification. Applicants with a three year bachelor degree are directly admissible
provided their standard of achievement is acceptable to the Faculty. People holding other
than university tertiary qualifications are admissible subject to agreement by the Faculty
that such qualifications are equivalent to those directly acceptable.
Students completing the GradDipEnvSt may count their coursework towards the
MSc(EnvMgt) degree provided they do not take out the Graduate Diploma and their work
has reached a standard considered satisfactory by the Coordinator.
To ensure entry to this course, application for admission should be made as early as
possible.
Some students may be required to complete a preliminary reading unit. Such preparation
is normally done before the commencement of the formal teaching in the first year of the
course.
Course objectives
Several basic assumptions underlie the University’s program for the degree.
•
Those who frame the alternatives from which environmental policy choices will be
made must necessarily make highly significant value judgements. Public
understanding of administrative decision-making will be enhanced when people are
willing to make explicit the values underlying policy formation. Accordingly,
emphasis is placed on developing a student’s sense of values.
•
While the economic, social, cultural, legal and physical aspects of any major
environmental policy problem can be distinguished analytically, these aspects need
to be viewed together if policy-makers are to come up with workable solutions.
Therefore, the program stresses the need for integrative modes of thought.
•
The character of the solutions required from environmental policy-makers is
changing rapidly. Categorical solutions are no longer appropriate; more and more
people are recognising the interdependence of public problems. Thus, the solutions
which policy makers provide must be integrative in an additional sense. In order for
governments to make authoritative decisions, the aspirations of competing
institutions must be brought into direct relationship with one another so that,
through a process during which these aspirations are modified, solutions which
have a wide degree of acceptance are produced. This acceptance must be achieved in
stages during which the point of view of all participants gradually changes. In
recognition of the importance of the integrative approach, the course prepares
students for policy making through a program which stresses the multifaceted
nature of environmental problems.
Career outcomes
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This course provides the knowledge and skills background appropriate to careers within
environmental management, environmental policy formation, and environmental
education.
Course structure
Students taking the course attend the lectures, practicals, seminars and excursions and
complete the projects and reading organised in four major units:
•
Environmental Planning
•
Environmental Technology
•
Ecosystems
•
Environmental Values
Students carry out a major research project on an environmental problem resulting in a
thesis, sometimes as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The project provides for a practical
involvement in the task of assessing and integrating results of studies conducted in
diverse disciplines. Thus, this program stresses both ‘what to do’ and ‘how to do it’ in the
context of value choices.
There are five basic components: four coursework units and a research project thesis
involving problem-oriented research, which can be undertaken as part of a
multi-disciplinary team. The major research project component constitutes one half of the
course.
Students may take equivalent load postgraduate or undergraduate units offered by the
School of Geography and Environmental Studies or other schools in place of one of the
four coursework units, subject to approval by the Coordinator.
Schedule
Unit code
KGE812
KGE813
KGA511
KGE815
unit title
Environmental Technology
Ecosystems
Planning, Theory, Process and Applications
Environmental Values
weight
0%
0%
25
0%
campus offered
H~2
H~1
H~1 D~1
H~2
KGA406 Special Topic in Environmental Studies – contact the Faculty for details of this unit
KGE840
Research Project Thesis
0%
H~1&2
The following are the ‘umbrella’ codes
Master of
Environmental
Management
(full time)[a]
Master of
Environmental
Management
(part time)[a]
Hbt
[100%]
KGE808
Hbt
[50% ]
KGE809
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[a]
The appropriate ‘umbrella’ code must be entered on all MEnvMgt enrolments, in addition to the
individual units’ code. A weighting of 0% must be entered against the individual unit codes.
Note: The following information is NOT included in the printed edition of the Course and
Unit Handbook
Contact
Hobart: Dr Lorne Kriwoken ph 6226 2458 fax 6226 2989 <L.K.Kriwoken@utas.edu.au>
Additional Information
The following information answers some frequently asked questions.
Note, however, details should be confirmed with the appropriate authority
Responsible faculty or school | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology
Campus(es) offered | Hobart
Mode of delivery| Full time | Part time
Course duration | 1.5 (depends on entry qualifications) years minimum (3 semesters) | 2
years maximum (4 semesters)
Costs (course fees only – annual) | HECS: YES | International students: $13,500
Students enrolled in this course | Total students enrolled last year: 16 | Total students
enrolled this year: 20 | International students last year: 4 | International students this
year: 4
Approximate student-staff contact hours | 12 hrs weekly 26 wks
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