Program Overview

UC’s new Bachelor of Science has been created to help expand your scientific knowledge, while giving you the freedom to explore what you like and discover what you love.
With six specialist majors to choose from, you will be able to self-curate your own study program. The specialist majors include:

• Biomedical science
• Environmental science
• Human movement
• Nutrition studies
• Chemical science
• Biological science

Plus, with room to study eight open electives in areas like Health, Communications, Technology, or Law, you’ll diversify your skillset, broaden or deepen your knowledge base, and increase your employment prospects.
 
Building on the strong foundational Core Major in Science, you’ll develop a highly-transferrable set of skills that include critical thinking, scientific reasoning, data analysis and communication that’ll stay with you long after graduating. You’ll also undertake scenario-based study, participate in practical work integrated learning opportunities, and use industry-standard lab equipment.  These experiences and skills will equip you to solve a range of theoretical and contemporary real-world problems.

Study a Bachelor of Science at UC and you will

• Develop critical thinking and data analysis skills to solve a range of issues on a local or global scale, recognising the importance of entrepreneurship, innovation and work-integrated learning.
• Acquire scientific reasoning, technical, analysis and communication skills.
• Collect scientific data within legal, ethical and social frameworks, with key laboratory, clinical and/or field-based competencies.
• Exhibit breadth of scientific knowledge and technical skills, with a depth in at least one science specialist area. Conduct scientific investigations relevant to a range of disciplines. 
• Evaluate current and emerging ethical and cultural issues that arise in contemporary science and exhibit cross-cultural competence and social responsibility.

Work-integrated learning

Step out of the classroom and into the real-world. Our professional practice units are embedded into this degree and allow you to conduct real life experiments. Work with the latest technologies and/or clinical practices in a range of industry or government settings or explore our own labs by undertaking research projects with support from UC researchers. 

Specialist Major: Environmental Science

The Specialist Major in Environmental Science builds upon the Core Major in Science to develop capacity to employ transdisciplinary approaches to identify, conceptualise and analyse diverse environmental futures, producing graduates with the capability to innovate and implement solutions to current and future environmental challenges. Initial units lay down foundational technical and cognitive skills, before later units apply these skills to cultivate a sophisticated analytical capacity. Interdependencies between human societies and environments, key environmental challenges and ecological complexity are studied through units focused on catchment management, conservation ecology and sustainability. Units within the major are closely interrelated to provide students with an integrated learning journey where links between theory, skills and practice are clearly articulated and evolve as students progress. This culminates in capstone units aligned with two of UC's research strengths, providing a potential pathway into research. A strong emphasis on experiential learning runs throughout the major - active and participatory learning is encouraged through WIL opportunities, field class experiences and hands-on exposure to emerging technologies in the lab and field. Students will be introduced to environmental challenges, wicked problems and socio-scientific issues, and inspired to innovate solutions using leading-edge approaches including remote-sensing and drone technologies, ground-breaking eDNA methods, and advanced computational modelling. Upon successful completion of the Specialist Major in Environmental Science, students will have developed highly transferable proficiencies and experiences applicable across a variety of career paths.