2020 Undergraduate Courses
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Minor Study Areas (Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health) | 2020

The Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health offers the following minor to students in any degree where their course rules allow: 

Indigenous Health Studies

This minor is suspended for 2020 

For students looking to complete this minor, it is recommended that you contact the Head of School to discuss your program of study

 

Earth and Environmental Science

To declare a minor in Earth and Environmental Science, students are required to complete the following 24 credit points:

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
EESC101 Planet Earth 6 Autumn
EESC103 Earth's Dynamic Surface 6 Autumn
EESC202 Shaping Earth's Surface 6 Spring
EESC203 Biogeography and Environmental Change 6 Autumn

Geology

To declare a minor in Geology, student are required to complete 24 credit points from the table below:  

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
Select 6 credit points from either
EESC101 Planet Earth 6 Autumn
EESC252 Geology for Engineers 6 Spring
At least 18 credit points from the table below:
EESC250 Field Geology 6 Summer 2019/2020

GEOS309

Igneous Metamorphic Geology Methods and Processes 6 Autumn
EESC105 Introductory Geospatial Analysis 6 Autumn, Spring
EESC209 G-cubed: Geochemistry, Geochronology, Geophysics 6 Spring
EESC321 Plate Tectonics, Macrotopography and Earth History 6 Autumn
EESC326 Resources and Environments 6 Spring
GEOS215 Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments 6 Autumn

  

Geosciences

To declare a minor in Geosciences, students are required to complete 24 credit points from the table below:

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
TWO of the following 100 level subjects:
EESC101 Planet Earth 6 Autumn
EESC102 Earth's Interconnected Spheres 6 Spring
EESC103 Earth's Dynamic Surface 6 Autumn
EESC105 Introductory Geospatial Analysis 6 Autumn, Spring
Plus TWO of the following 200 level subjects
GEOS309 Igneous Metamorphic Geology Methods and Processes 6 Autumn
EESC202 Shaping Earth's Surface 6 Spring
EESC203 Biogeography and Environmental Change 6 Autumn
EESC207 Advanced Geospatial Analysis 6 Autumn, Spring
EESC209 G-cubed: Geochemistry, Geochronology, Geophysics 6 Spring
EESC250 Field Geology 6 Summer 2020/2020
EESC252 Geology for Engineers I 6 Spring

Physical Geography

To declare a minor in Physical Geography, students are required to complete 24 credit points from the following list:

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
EESC102 Earth's Interconnected Spheres 6 Spring
EESC103 Earth's Dynamic Surface 6 Autumn
Plus ONE of the following 200 level subjects
EESC202 Shaping Earth's Surface 6 Spring
EESC203 Biogeography and Environmental Change 6 Autumn
Plus ONE of the following 300 level subjects
EESC322 Coastal Environments: Process and Management 6 Spring
EESC323 Fluvial Geomorphology and Sedimentology 6 Autumn

Archaeology 

The Archaeology minor provides students with knowledge of the principles and techniques archaeologists employ to study past behaviours and lifeways. Students enrolled in the Minor in Archaeology will combine research with practical experience and skills to examine different types of archaeological evidence including cultural and technological artefacts, ecofacts (such as bones, molluscs, botanical remains) and past landscapes. They will explore the lives of past societies and individuals as well as landscapes and environments, which they inhabited and their combined influence on present day life. Through surveying the prehistory of human culture in Australasia and elsewhere around the world, this Minor considers the recovery, analysis, and interpretation of the archaeological record and evidence within the context of key research questions in the discipline. This minor equips graduates with the ability to combine research with practical, problem solving skills in addressing human behaviour, cultural change, technological development and human-environment interactions.

A minor in Archaeology requires at least 24 credit points. The two 100 and 200 level subjects are compulsory, and the other two can be chosen from the 300-level subjects.

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
ARCH102 Big Questions in Archaeology 6 Spring
ARCH202 World Archaeology 6 Autumn
ARCH301 Archaeology in Action: Understanding the Archaeological record 6 Spring
ARCH302 Digging Down Under: Archaeology of Australasia 6 Autumn
ARCH303 Dung, death and decay: modern methods in Archaeology 6 Autumn

Biochemistry 

This minor would require completion of the following 24 cp of biology subjects, constituting the study of biochemistry at 200-level (BIOL213 and BIOL214), along with the prerequisite biology subject at 100-level needed for BIOL213 (BIOL103), and a further first year biology subject that is core to the study of cell and molecular biology (BIOL105). Note that BIOL213 also requires CHEM101/4 and CHEM102/5 as prerequisites.

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
BIOL103 Molecules, Cells and Organisms 6 Spring
BIOL105 Functional Biology of Animals and Plants 6 Autumn
BIOL213 Principles of Biochemistry 6 Autumn
BIOL214 The Biochemistry of Energy and Metabolism 6 Spring

Biodiversity

This minor would require completion of the following 24 cp of biology subjects, constituting the study of biodiversity at 200-level (BIOL240 and BIOL241), along with the two most relevant prerequisite biology subjects at 100-level (BIOL104 and BIOL105). Note that BIOL240 and BIOL241 also require BIOL103 as a prerequisite.

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
BIOL104 Evolution, Biodiversity and Environment 6 Autumn
BIOL105 Functional Biology of Animals and Plants 6 Autumn
BIOL240 Biodiversity of Marine and Freshwater Organisms 6 Autumn
BIOL241 Biodiversity of Terrestrial Organisms 6 Spring

Ecology

This minor would require completion of the following 24 cp of biology subjects, constituting the study of ecology at 200-level (BIOL251 and BIOL252), along with the two most relevant prerequisite biology subjects at 100-level (BIOL104 and BIOL105). Note that BIOL251 and BIOL252 also require BIOL103 as a prerequisite.

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
BIOL104 Evolution, Biodiversity and Environment 6 Autumn
BIOL105 Functional Biology of Animals and Plants 6 Autumn
BIOL251 Principles of Ecology 6 Autumn
BIOL252 Evolution and Behaviour 6 Spring

Molecular Biology

This minor would require completion of the following 24 cp of biology subjects, constituting the study of molecular biology at 200-level (BIOL213 and BIOL215), along with the prerequisite biology subject at 100-level needed for BIOL213 (BIOL103), and a further first year biology subject that is core to the study of cell and molecular biology (BIOL105). Note that BIOL213 also requires CHEM101/4 and CHEM102/5 as prerequisites.

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
BIOL103 Molecules, Cells and Organisms 6 Spring
BIOL105 Functional Biology of Animals and Plants 6 Autumn
BIOL213 Principles of Biochemistry 6 Autumn
BIOL215 Introductory Genetics 6 Spring

 Marine Biology

This minor would require the completion of the following subjects

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
EESC105 Introductory Geospatial Analysis 6 Autumn, Spring
BIOL240 Biodiversity of Marine and Freshwater Organisms 6 Autumn
MARE200 Introduction to Oceanography 6 Autumn
MARE360 Fisheries and Aquaculture 6 Spring

 

Last reviewed: 27 February, 2020