The Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems requires three years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time) and the honours program an additional year (or the equivalent part-time).
The course is offered by the College of Science and Engineering.
Enrolment in the honours program may be offered to a student who meets certain academic criteria and subject to appropriate resources and staff being available to supervise the program of study.
The minimum requirements for consideration for entry to all undergraduate courses are specified in detail in the University Entry Requirements.
The Bachelor of Applied GIS is designed to prepare students for a variety of career paths related to the capture, synthesis, analysis and communication of spatially related information.
Graduates will be expected to be able to:
To qualify for the Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems a student must complete 108 units, with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the program of study below.
Not all topics are necessarily available in a given year.
Students must complete the compulsory topics listed and the requirements for one Bachelor of Arts major (36 units). To complete the 108 units, other topics may be selected from any offered by the University provided entry and course requirements are met and that at least 27 units of First Year topics are included.
18 units comprising:
COMP1102 Computer Programming 1 (4.5 units)
GEOG1003 Introduction to Geographical Information Systems (4.5 units)
GEOG1004 GIS Field Camp (4.5 units)
plus one of
STAT1121 Data Science (4.5 units)
STAT1122 Biostatistics (4.5 units)
plus 9 units from the selected Bachelor of Arts major
plus 9 units of Elective topics
22.5 units comprising:
ENVS3760 Environment Agency Placement (4.5 units)*
GEOG2701 Introduction to Remote Sensing (4.5 units)
GEOG2702 Image Analysis in Remote Sensing (4.5 units)
GEOG3701 Spatial Information Management (4.5 units)
STAT1132 Statistics 1 (4.5 units)
*Students must enrol in the NS2 availability of the Environment Agency Placement.
plus 13.5 units from the selected Bachelor of Arts major
22.5 units comprising:
ENVS3702 Applied Practice in Environment (9 units)
GEOG3711 Advanced Digital Image Analysis (4.5 units)
GEOG3731 GIS Modelling (4.5 units)
GEOG3751 Advanced Spatial Statistics (4.5 units)
plus 13.5 units from the selected Bachelor of Arts major
Students undertake a 36 unit Bachelor of Arts major selected from the following:
Refer to Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems (Honours)
The Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems may also be studied in a combined degree program with
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