University of New South Wales - BEES Home - Possible Courses for Honours 4511

These are suggestions only - other course choices are possible.

Additional advice may be obtained from the BEES Student Office, or email: beesinfo@unsw.edu.au

For students with majors in Biological Science, Ecology, Botany, Zoology, Marine (or Environmental Science with these specialisations).
Contact persons: Mark Adams or Paul Adam

If you have missed any of these core biology second year subjects (particularly BEES2041) then it is strongly recommended that you fill the gap

i) other Level 3 courses in your discipline area, or

ii) Core courses that you may have missed:

BEES2041 Data Analysis for Life and Earth Sciences
BIOS2031 Biology of Invertebrates,
BIOS2051 Flowering Plants,
BIOS2021 Genetics
BIOS3071 Conservation Biology & Biodiversity
BIOS3111 Population & Community Ecology
BIOS3601 Advanced Field Biology
MSCI3001 Physical Oceanography
GEOH3911 Environmental Impact Assessment
GEOS3731 Catchment & Coastal Geomorphology
GEOS3761 Environmental Change
GEOS3821 Remote Sensing and GIS applications
GEOS4721 Current Issues in Land Management

iii) Relevant courses in related disciplines at Level 2, 3 or 4 either within or outside the School:

BIOC2181 Fundamentals of Biochemistry
BIOC2201 Principles of Molecular Biology
BIOC2291 Fundamentals of Molecular Biology
CHEM3901 Environmental Toxicology
MICR3071 Environmental Microbiology

MATHEMATICS SUBJECTS

MATH3041 Mathematical Modelling for Real World Systems
MATH2301 Mathematical Computing A
MATH2240 Introduction to Oceanography and Meteorology

For students with majors in Geology, Spatial Information Systems (or Environmental Science with these specialisations):
Contact person: Paul Lennox

GEOL4131 Advanced Topics in Applied Geology - A (12UOC)
GEOL4141 Advanced Topics in Applied Geology - B (6 UOC)

These two courses may be made up of the following, drawn from the Sydney Universities' consortium of Geology and Geophysics (SUCOGG).

Students need to be aware that courses offered by the SUCOGG may vary from year to year.

3 or 6 UOC courses:

Advanced Structural Geology
Sedimentology Project
Advanced Geophysics Project

3 UOC

Image Processing for Geologists
Analysis of Natural Materials
Exploration Geology
Groundwater Environments
Groundwater Hydrology
Groundwater Quality and Protection
Hydrogeochemistry
Site Investigations
Advanced Clastic Basin Analysis
Advanced Field Course in Structural Geology and Tectonics
Analysis of Natural Materials
An introduction to Phase Diagrams and Thermobarometry
Applied Palaeontology
Coal and Organic Petrology
Coastal Environmental Assessment
Coastal Monitoring Techniques
Convergent Margin Tectonics
Coral Reef Dynamics
Deformation Processes
Desktop Mapping for Earth Sciences
Geochemical Analysis Techniques & Applications
Geophysical Data Processing and Plotting using GMT
Geophysical Image Interpretation with ER Mapper
Multivariate Geological Data Processing
Interpretation of 2D & 3D Seismic Reflection Data
Interpretation of Seismic Refraction Data
Introductory Statistical Data Analysis for Geoscientists using Matlab/Octave
Processing of Seismic Reflection and Ground Penetrating Radar Data
Hyperspectral imagery for Soil and Geology Mapping

6 U0C

Mine Planning