Graduate Program on Environmental Sciences (GPES) — Masters Course

2 years English open

3-stage learning journey

2 years · English

Year 1, semester 1 (A semester for September 2027 entrants; S semester for April Students join their supervisor's laboratory immediately and begin the compulsory research-work sequence while taking lecture courses from their own and neighbouring research areas. Courses are chosen in consultation with the academic advisor and registered online through UTAS; "No registration or changes to any courses, including intensive courses, are permitted outside the designated registration period." Note the September and April intakes join the same course cycle at different points, so the first semester is the A semester for Schedule 1 entrants and the S semester for Schedule 2 entrants. Special Masters Research Work I (2 credits) GPES lecture courses Special Masters Seminar I (2 credits) Year 1, semester 2 The research-work and seminar sequences continue (Special Masters Research Work II; Special Masters Seminar II) alongside further lecture courses, building towards the 24 credits that must come from courses offered exclusively for GPES students. Year 2 masters students give interim research presentations within the programme. Special Masters Research Work II (2 credits) Courses in other departments, graduate schools or the undergraduate senior division Year 2: research, Special Masters Research Work III–IV and the master's thesis The final year is dominated by thesis research. Students complete Special Masters Research Work III and IV, must have completed the standard two years and all programme requirements, then file the Title of Thesis form, submit the thesis and abstract (three copies each) to the PEAK/GPEAK Section, and pass the screening of the thesis and the final examination. "Deadlines are strictly set. Extensions are NOT permitted." GPES thesis submission windows are set separately from the GSP ones each year. Special Masters Research Work III and IV (2 credits each) Master's thesis and final examination

Year 1, semester 1 (A semester for September 2027 entrants; S semester for April curriculum

The detailed course list for this stage has not been published yet.

Course domains

Research Area 1: Environmental Principles — "The area of Environmental Principles is concerned with the fundamental issues of the environment, and approaches them from the perspectives of the humaniti
Research Area 2: Management and Policy — "Management and Policy deals with social science approaches to environmental issues. Research in this area explores the applications of social science discipli
Research Area 3: Measurement and Evaluation — "Our environment is composed of many complex physical, chemical and biological systems with which we interact and which interact with one another; the oce
Research Area 4: Materials Systems and Dynamics — "Materials, Systems and Dynamics is based on the physical and biological sciences. It focuses on the ways in which individual materials are composed a
Research Area 5: Energy and Resources — "Energy and Resources is one of the most important underlying subjects in environmental science. The courses offered are designed for students to review energy
Research Area 6: Health and Security / Urban Planning Technology — "For human beings, the environment has many important aspects, like its ability to keep us alive, healthy, safe and free of fear. The

Ph.D. Course — "Progression to the Ph.D. Course is also offered and encouraged." "This Ph.D. Course is intended following the Masters Course; intended to finish typically in three years", with approxi

Research and consulting careers — Published student statements describe the intended destinations: "Upon graduation, I wish to pursue a career in Environmental research or consulting." The programme's

"The graduate program steps further and deeper, allowing students to choose their area of specialization from a wide range of relevant fields including natural and agricultural sciences, industrial te

"The course is research-focused under tuition of our faculty and provides a unique opportunity to work with world experts at the cutting edge, on problems that global society needs to address right no

Learning outcome: students graduating from GPES will be professionals "capable of working internationally in the environment-energy field on the global stage" and "with a systematic understanding of t

Learning outcome: graduates "understand and can make judgements on environmental questions on all scales ranging from local to global" and "can make informed decisions in real time, on site to solve r

Learning outcome: graduates will be professionals "with a considered and empathetic view of the wide range of different stakeholder viewpoints on environmental issues and who can execute leadership in

Learning outcome: graduates will be "global communicators, capable of addressing both specialists and non-specialists while encompassing the needs of differing cultural groups".

"The graduate program deepens this concept, and fosters human assets who will be able to address deep-rooted problems in an expert manner. ... GPES accepts a wide variety of students, from those who w

Core learning formats

The course is "research-focused under tuition of our faculty". Students are attached to their supervisor's laboratory and take Special Masters Research Work I–IV (2 credits each, "Compulsory for Maste
Special Masters Seminar I–IV (2 credits each, taught by each academic adviser) are listed as "Strongly recommended for Master's Course", taken one per semester in the same I, II then III, IV sequence.
The programme publishes its Masters lecture list by research area: Foundations of Environmental Sciences I; Environmental Management and Policy I; Environmental Measurement and Evaluation II, IV and V
"Pending approval from their academic advisor, students are allowed to take courses offered by the other departments, graduate schools, educational institutions or the undergraduate senior division to
The Graduate School publishes a dedicated procedure for "Off-campus Academic Activity (GPES)", the GPES counterpart of the internship procedure used by GSP students.
"The Department of Multi-Disciplinary Sciences provides grants for the purpose of enabling GPES graduate students to present their research at international research conferences. Grants are made avail
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