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Practical and applied components

We have designed our postgraduate programs to give you valuable opportunities to develop practical skills for integrated solutions to water problems in a real-world context.

Virtual tour of the course

Third semester project

Field Trips

To give you the most practical, hands-on experience, we have designed some exciting field trips for the course. Costs of these trips are included in your tuition fees.

Semester 1

in Semester 1 students participate in a day trip along the Brisbane River and a three-day field trip to North Stradbroke Island

On the North Stradbroke Island trip you will explore integrated water management issues of the island. Past trips to the island have included:

  • Induction of Moreton Bay Research Station
  • Sand modelling activity
  • Presentations and discussions with guest presenters - indigenous approaches to managing water resources; community perspectives; assessing and monitoring; dependent ecosystems
  • Mine visit
  • Field visits 
  • Group activities

Semester 2

In Semester 2 you will participate in a 14-day field trip to Western Australia, including a period at the University of Western Australia (UWA) campus in Albany. You will study various water issues and participate in intensive workshops with UWA staff. Most of the content for WATR 7100 and the problem-based learning activity will be delivered during this period.

The trip involves visits to catchments, creeks and rivers systems in south Western Australia to study coastal, urban and agricultural aspects of integrated water management.

Day excursions

Day excursions are held from time to time. Past excursions have included:

  • Oxley Water Treatment Plant

  • Griffith University

  • Water sampling trip

 

Practical and applied components

The program builds on your professional experience and improves your ability to consider and work on water-related problems holistically:

  • Lecture modules teach you knowledge and skills across a wide range of disciplines.
  • Team projects allow you to apply your knowledge to real case studies in Australia and overseas.
  • Field visits throughout Australia, included in your tuition fees, complement your project work and give you first-hand water system experience.
  • Network building helps you establish networks with national and international specialists by attending Australian conferences on water management.
  • Skills development allows you to learn and use practical skills to analyse and solve water-related problems.


Skills acquired

You will acquire:

  • effective communication skills across disciplines and sectors, sciences and policy
  • systems thinking skills regarding the whole-of-water cycle
  • collaboration and teamwork skills for cross-sectoral teams, including local and international expert knowledge
  • problem-solving skills for complex issues requiring difficult tradeoffs
  • risk assessment and planning skills for devising sustainable solutions
  • adaptive and reflective learning skills, i.e. ability to learn by doing and apply context-specific solutions.

 

Problem-based learning projects

A unique feature of the program is the team and individual projects you  undertake in Australian and international settings that integrate the knowledge and skills you learn in the modules. You will be carefully guided through these projects to optimise your learning, knowledge integration and application.

 

Course delivery

The course is delivered at The University of Queensland by a variety of lecturers and guest lecturers. Past guest lecturers and topics have included:


 

 
 
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