Minor: Science

Study Area Description

Geneticists and biotechnologists are involved in finding answers to many current and future challenges facing our world. The study of genes, their function and different applications of their products has led to significant improvements in food production, human health and medicine, and the management of wild biological resources. Ongoing technological advances are rapidly changing the way we view the biological world. Units in this Minor will provide the skill set to address real world problems to secure innovative solutions to emerging global problems.

Climate change is the foremost critical challenge to the sustainability and habitability of the Earth as we know it. There is rapidly growing demand for expertise in the science that governs climate and informs models of climate change - across the private sector, within many Australian government organisations, and in research institutions. This minor delivers a strong understanding of climate science and combines it with relevant knowledge about ocean-atmosphere interaction, insight into global change, sustainability and air quality and climate change mitigation measures. This combination is ideally suited to equip you with diverse backgrounds and primary interests to tackle the mounting challenges in areas such as sea level change mitigation, local climate adaptation, sustainable resource management and coastal ocean climate mitigation.

Study Area Description

Please refer to the **IMPORTANT MESSAGE** Students who commenced course prior to 2024 - Bachelor of Science unit changes above.

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As an applied science, ecology is used to design strategies for the management of wildlife populations and commercially important plant and animal species. The Wildlife Ecology minor will allow you to gain the broad range of scientific skills and specialist techniques required for understanding biodiversity, conserving and managing endangered animals, controlling pests and invasive species in natural and agricultural ecosystems, managing exploited populations and evaluating issues associated with the management of our natural resources. The minor is an extension minor for the Biology and Environmental Science majors. It will prepare you for further study, and equip you with the skills needed for employment in areas where ecological theory and practice is used to examine biological and environmental questions.

The following study areas have been discontinued or its version has been discontinued. Students who have already commenced one of these minors will be permitted to complete it.

Medicinal Chemistry and Biology Minor is discontinued from mid 2024.