Graduate Certificate of Environmental Management

The School of Environment is a research-intensive, dynamic School surrounded by some of the most spectacular and fascinating natural environments in Australia.

This course provides postgraduate education for existing and future professionals on the background, principles and practices of environmental management, particularly in the context of wet-dry and semi-arid tropical ecosystems and arid landscapes.

The generic skills concepts and applications covered in this course are also highly relevant to those working in other ecosystems.

The course also includes a focus on the social context within which environmental management takes place.

This one semester course enables students to select specific units which address their interests and career directions, while also giving them the option to smoothly articulate, with full credit, into the Graduate Diploma or Master of Environmental Management.

Graduates of this program are equipped to work within the diverse range of disciplines and sectors involved in effective and sustainable ecosystem management, and are eligible to apply for membership of associations such as the Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) and the Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ).

Specialist Elective Units - Group A(2 units) - 20cp

Specialist Elective units - Group A totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.

ENV509 Ecology and Management of Tropical Forests and Savanna ENV511 Statistical Methods for Impact Analysis ENV512 Tropical Wetland and Coastal Management (replaced by ENV519 Aquatic Resource Management from 2018) ENV513 Environmental Planning and Policy ENV517 Natural Resources and Indigenous Livelihoods (includes compulsory 5 day intensive) ENV520 Wildlife Management ENV521 Community Engagement for Biosecurity and Natural Resources Management

Specialist Elective Units - Group B(2 units) - 20cp

Specialist Elective units - Group B totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.

ENV501 Tropical Invaders and Biosecurity ENV502 Remote Sensing ENV503 Ecological Restoration and Conservation ENV506 Environmental Monitoring and Modelling (ENV502 is assumed knowledge for this unit) ENV507 Fire Ecology and Management ENV508 Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Thinking (new title 2018) ENV515 Desert Field Ecology ENV516 Ecosystem Function: Field Studies in North Australia ENV518 Analysing and Synthesising Spatial Data (ENV508 is assumed knowledge for this unit) (new title 2018) SID500 Professional Practice in Environmental Management (repeatable)

- 40cp

Total Credit Points

This course is not available for entry however is available as an alternative exit award from the Master of Environmental Management.