Bachelor of Biodiversity and Conservation
BICO02
Faculty:
Faculty of Science
Department:
Department of Biological Sciences
Award:
Bachelor of Biodiversity and Conservation (BBioCons)
General requirements:
| Minimum number of credit points for the degree | 69 |
| Minimum number of credit points at 200 level or above | 39 |
| Minimum number of credit points at 300 level or above | 18 |
| Minimum number of credit points designated as Science | 42 |
| Completion of a designated People unit | |
| Completion of a designated Planet unit | |
| Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below |
Note:
Students must complete one designated People unit and one designated Planet unit. One of those units must be taken outside the Department administering the program of study which the student is admitted to, and the other unit must be taken outside the Faculty administering the program of study which the student is admitted to. Units which are already a required unit of the student's program of study will not satisfy the People unit requirement or Planet unit requirement.
In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.
Specific minimum requirements:
Credit points
100 level
Required
3cp from
ENV units at 100 level
ENVE units at 100 level
ENVG units at 100 level
3
GEOS units at 100 level
200 level
Required
6cp from
Animal Structure and Function (3)
Plant Structure and Function (3)
Organismal Biology (3)
Comparitive Physiology (3)
Microbiology and Molecular Biology (3)
6
Microbiology (3)
300 level
Required
9cp from
Plants: Cells to Ecosystems (3)
Invertebrates: Evolution, Behaviour and Diversity (3)
Birds of Australia (3)
Animal Communication (3)
Conservation and Ecological Genetics (3)
Parasitology (3)
Plant Diversity and Conservation (3)
Biology of Australasian Vertebrates (3)
Freshwater Ecology (3)
Symbiosis in Health and Disease (3)
Ecology and Evolution (3)
Vertebrate Evolution (3)
Marine Birds and Mammals (3)
9
Marine Ecology (3)
Balance of credit points required:
27
Electives
TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM
69
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.