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The graduates of ʯÁñÊÓƵ are prepared and equipped to create a brighter future for life in the tropics world-wide.

ʯÁñÊÓƵ graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards.  They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility.  Ê¯ÁñÊÓƵ graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia.  They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability.  They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national and international communities of the tropics.

Graduates of the Masters of Mineral Geoscience at ʯÁñÊÓƵ will be able to:

- Integrate and apply an advanced body of theoretical and technical knowledge, including understanding of recent developments, in minerals geoscience;

- Retrieve, analyse, synthesise and evaluate complex information, concepts and theories from a range of sources;

- Plan and conduct reliable, evidence-based laboratory and/or field experiments/practices by selecting and applying methods, techniques and tools, as appropriate to minerals geoscience;

- Organise, analyse and interpret complex scientific data using advanced mathematical, statistical and technological skills;

- Communicate theoretical propositions, methodologies, scientific data, arguments and conclusions clearly and coherently to specialist and non-specialist audiences through advanced written and oral English language skills and a variety of media;

- Identify, analyse and generate solutions to unpredictable or complex problems, especially related to tropical, rural, remote or Indigenous contexts, by applying scientific knowledge and skills with initiative and expert judgement;

- Critically review regulatory requirements, ethical principles and, where appropriate, cultural frameworks, to work effectively, responsibly and safely in diverse contexts;

- Reflect on current skills, knowledge and attitudes to manage their professional learning needs and performance, autonomously and in collaboration with others;

-  Apply knowledge of research principles, methods, techniques and tools to plan and execute a substantial research-based project, capstone experience and/or piece of scholarship.

24 credit points of cross-institutional subjects

Select 24 credit points of external study from University of Tasmania and/or the University of Western Australia.

12 credit points Research Dissertation plus 12 credit points of cross institutional subjects

Select 12 credit points of specified Research Dissertation subjects from Table 1 or Table 2

PLUS

Select 12 credit points of external study from University of Tasmania and/or the University of Western Australia

6 credit points Special Project plus 18 credit points of cross-institutional subjects

EA5026:06 Special Studies or Special Project approved by the program co-ordinator in exceptional cases

PLUS

Select 18 credit points of external study from University of Tasmania and/or the University of Western Australia.

6 credit points Special Project, plus 12 credit points Research Dissertation; plus 6 credit points of cross institutional subjects

EA5026:06 Special Studies OR Special Project approved by the program co-ordinator in exceptional cases

PLUS

Select 12 credit points of specified Research Dissertation subjects from Table 1 or Table 2

PLUS

Select 6 credit points of external study from University of Tasmania and/or the University of Western Australia.