Bachelor of Arts (Environment and Heritage)

• Program Overview
• Career Outcomes
• Professional Membership
• Program Structure
• Program Requirements and Notes

Program Overview

Few specialists are skilled in both the natural and built environment. Fewer still are well versed in ecotourism as well as cultural tourism and built heritage.

As an Environment and Heritage student you will gain theoretical and practical skills related to:

• natural environment management
• museum management and display
• built heritage management
• urban conservation planning
• cultural tourism
• heritage tourism
• ecotourism

Graduating from this program will ensure you have a unique set of skills and conceptual understanding relating to heritage display and management, to tourist enterprises and to the management and interpretation of the natural environment.

Career Outcomes

Knowledge and skills acquired through the Bachelor of Arts (Environment and Heritage) are transferable across many sectors such as government, education, the arts, commerce, and industry. Depending on minor and majors chosen, opportunities exist in:

• commissioned history project research
• cultural tourism management and research
• ecotourism and interpretation
• environmental management
• heritage adviser to community groups, government and private clients
• heritage interpretation (theme parks, historic houses, urban conservation areas)
• media-related research
• national parks
• tourism and heritage promotional campaigns

Professional Membership

Graduates may become members/associate members of various Australian professional bodies depending on their study specialisations.

Program Structure

Core Courses

Code	Units	Title
2 required courses:
COR109	12	Communication and Thought
COR110	12	Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship*

Introductory Courses

Code	Units	Title
3 required courses:
AUS100	12	Australian Spaces: Images of the Urban
AUS130	12	Gizmo: A Social History of Technology
ENP100	12	Environment and Society

Advanced Courses

Code	Units	Title
3 required courses:
AUS235	12	Internship in Environment and Heritage
AUS265	12	Walking Sites: Cultural Heritage Tours
ENP240	12	Interpretation: Environment, Heritage and Tourism
Plus - choose 4 courses from:
AUS210	12	Lie of the Land
AUS211	12	Eve of Destruction: War Propaganda of the Twentieth Century
AUS225	12	Life and Death in the City: Settlement to Federation
AUS230	12	Talking History: Memory and the Past
AUS245	12	Died Young: How Australians Create Heroes
AUS250	12	Riots and Rebellions: Conflict in Australian History
AUS260	12	Coast to Coast: Mystery, Crime and Writing the City
AUS290	12	Upfront: A History of Film and Live Performance in Australia
Plus - choose 6 advanced courses from:
ENP210	12	Planning Principles, Processes and Law
ENP215	12	Interacting with the Natural Environment
ENP230	12	Environment, Ethics and Economics
ENP235	12	Sustainable Development
ENP245	12	Social Demography
ENP255	12	Urbanisation
SCS211	12	Green Justice: Environmental and Social Issues

Elective Courses

Choose 6 courses from any Faculty (Arts and Social Sciences, Business or Science)

Program Requirements and Notes

1. No more than 10 introductory level courses are to be completed, including Core Courses, in the BA(Env&Htge).

2. No courses may be counted to more than one major or minor for the BA(Env&Htge).

3. A maximum of 6 Business or Science courses (72 units) can be included in the BA(Env&Htge).

4. Required introductory courses may count towards some majors and minors for the BA(Env&Htge).

5. An introductory level course has a number less than 200 in its course code. An advanced level course has a number greater than 200 and less than 400 in its course code.

6. Refer to the Academic Rules.

7. Refer to Explanation of Terms.

* Subject to final approval.

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