Undergraduate courses and programmes

We offer undergraduate courses in Earth Sciences, Environmental Change, Environmental Science, Geography, Geophysics and Geographic Information Science (GIS).

Stage one Environment courses

Course code Course title Semester offered Course coordinator
EARTHSCI 105 Natural Hazards in New Zealand Summer; S1; S2 Summer/S1: Ingrid Ukstins
S2: Jennifer Eccles
EARTHSCI 120 Planet Earth S1; S2 Nick Richards
ENVSCI 101 Environment, Science and Management S1; S2 Sonia Fonua
GEOG 101 Earth Surface Processes and Landforms S1; S2 Joe Fagan
GEOG 102 Geography of the Human
Environment
S1; S2 Salene Schloffel-Armstrong
GEOG 103 Mapping Our World S1 Tom Dowling
GEOG 104 Cities and Urbanism S2 Salene Schloffel-Armstrong
SCIGEN 101 Communicating in a Knowledge Society S1 Anthony Gampell
SUSTAIN 100 Sustainability and Us S2 Joe Fagan
TFCENV 91F Environment and Society 1 S1 Rachael Boswell
TFCENV 92F Environment and Society 2 S2 Rachael Boswell

Stage two Environment courses

Course code Course title Semester offered Course coordinator
EARTHSCI 202 Earth Story S1 Barry O'Connor
EARTHSCI 203 Rock and Minerals S1 Phil Shane
EARTHSCI 205 New Zealand: Half a Billion Years on the Edge S2 Barry O'Connor
EARTHSCI 208 Earth Structure S2 Barry O'Connor
EARTHSCI 220  Practice in Earth Sciences 1 S1 Nick Richards
EARTHSCI/GEOG 261 Climate and Society   Not offered in 2024
EARTHSCI/GEOG 262 Geomorphology S2 Jon Tunnicliffe
ENVSCI 201 Natural and Human Environmental Systems S1 Sam Trowsdale
ENVSCI 203 Modelling Environmental Systems S2 Giovanni Coco
GEOG 202 Cities, Regions and Communities S1 Nick Lewis
GEOG 205 Environment and Society S2 Emma Sharp
GEOG 250 Geographical Research in Practice S1 Joe Fagan
GISCI 241 Principles of Remote Sensing S2 Murray Ford
GISCI 242 Principles of GIScience S1 Katarzyna Siła-Nowicka
SCIGEN 201 Innovating in a Knowledge Society S1 Marie McEntee

Stage three Environment courses

Course code Course title Semester offered Course coordinator
EARTHSCI 303 Sedimentary Systems S1 Lorna Strachan
EARTHSCI 307 Dynamic Quaternary Environments S1 Paul Augustinus
EARTHSCI 308 Tectonic and Magmatic Systems S2 James Muirhead
EARTHSCI 320 Practice in Earth Sciences 2 S1 Lorna Strachan
EARTHSCI 361 Exploration Geophysics   Not offered in 2024
EARTHSCI 372 Engineering Geology S2 Martin Brook
EARTHSCI 399 399 Capstone: Earth Sciences S2  Phil Shane
ENVSCI 301 Natural and Human Environmental Systems S1 Luitgard Schwendenmann
ENVSCI 303 Environmental Science, Risk
and Society
S2 Sonia Fonua
ENVSCI 399 Capstone: Environmental Science S2 Emma Ryan
GEOG 305 Population, Health and
Society
S1 Salene Schloffel-Armstrong
GEOG 307 Urban Geography   Laurence Murphy
GEOG 320 Resources and Environmental Management S1 Brad Coombes
GEOG 325 The Human Dimension of
Disasters
  Not offered in 2024
GEOG 327 Politics, Markets and Economies   Not offered in 2024
GEOG 351 Coastal and Marine Studies S1 Mark Dickson
GEOG 352 Landscape, Environment and Heritage S1 Gretel Boswijk
GEOG 335 Applied Physical Geography S2 Jennifer Salmond
GISCI 341 Advanced Remote Sensing S2 Tom Dowling
GISCI 343 GIScience Programming and Development S2 Katarzyna Siła-Nowicka
GEOG/GISCI 399 Capstone: Geography S2  Tom Baker
SUSTAIN 300 A Sustainable World S2 Anthony Gampell
SCIGEN 301/301 G Engaging in a Knowledge Society S2 Marie McEntee

2024 field trips

More details about the field trips can be found in the Course Outline.

If you require further information, please reach out to the course coordinator.

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