Undergraduate Courses - Environmental Geoscience Environmental geoscience is the section of the earth sciences that looks specifically at the relationship between humans and their geological surroundings. Look around and you will see that in every way, our environment is ultimately linked to the underlying geology.
Geology is fundamental to the understanding and management of our environment.
Environmental geoscience is applied in a range of diverse situations, such as urban development, waste disposal, water quality management, engineering, soils and agriculture, and assessing natural and artificial hazards. Courses are offered by the Department of Geology and Geophysics in combination with the Departments of Geography, Chemistry, and Soil Science. This is followed in second and third years by the units required for the particular major stream, plus supporting elective units. The fourth subject in first year must be biology, and in second or third year students must include second-year units in one of botany, chemistry and zoology, plus units in environmental law, environmental policy and environmental economics. In second year students combine geology with geography and soil science.