Graduate Careers AustraliaPostgraduate Options
Postgraduate study is an increasingly popular option for many graduates. Approximately 30 per cent of graduates go on to further study, whether part-time or full-time, research or coursework. If you are contemplating postgraduate study this section provides useful information about postgraduate options in different disciplines. EnvironmentThis is a new field of study, a classic example of the reorganisation of academic disciplines in response to problems of policy and practice. As you research your options, however, look carefully at the extent to which the various courses, and the departments/schools which offer them, are in fact reorganised. Some courses will be genuinely interdisciplinary – the result of sizeable groups of academics routinely working together with a common focus. Conversely, others will involve a number of separate subjects placed within the same course, but operating without any real interaction between them. There is a distinction to be made between two types of environmental courses: environmental science, which focuses on the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment; and environmental studies, which is concerned more broadly with social, political, economic and ecological factors. Most courses are available to graduates from a range of disciplines, and open up an unusually wide range of occupations stretching from the tourism and hospitality industry through public policy and management to science and engineering. There are a few research students in the field, but competition for places is often tough. If you are interested in this field you should also look at the field of Architecture & Building and Design. You may also find programs of interest in fields as diverse as Education & Training, Engineering, Agriculture or Arts/Humanities.
This article is taken from the 2007-08 edition of GCA's employer directory Graduate Opportunities
. © 2007 Graduate Careers Australia
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