Charles Darwin University

Bachelor of Science (Ecology)

The Bachelor of Science will allow you to explore your curiosity and passion for knowledge within your chosen scientific field. Your study options are flexible and diverse with a focus on professional experience in various sciences including biologist, ecologist, spatial scientist, biomedical scientist, chemist, or in other science fields.

Compulsory Core Units totaling 60 credit points as detailed below:

• Chemical Concepts: This unit is designed to give students a thorough and broad understanding of modern chemistry, providing a basis for either continued work in chemistry or for using chemistry in other disciplines. It involves chemical concepts like gas laws, thermo-chemistry, atomic structure, chemical bonding leading to shapes of molecules, behavior of solids, liquids, and solutions, chemical kinetics, and chemical equilibrium involved in acids, bases, and solubility.
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• Introductory Chemistry A: This unit is a starting unit in chemistry and introduces the basic concepts of chemistry. Theoretical concepts are reinforced by laboratory practical work. This unit is suitable for students without a background in chemistry to develop a basic understanding of chemistry to support units in biology, environmental science, and other sciences or to progress through to other units in chemistry.

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• Concepts of Physics: This unit is an introduction to physics for students wishing to major in disciplines other than physics. The emphasis is on understanding the fundamental concepts of physics, such as kinematics, momentum & impulse, heat & thermodynamics, light & optics, waves, electricity, magnetism, and radioactivity and how the concepts are applied to several real-world situations. In this unit, students will use physics principles to describe, explain, and predict physical phenomena.
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• Concepts of Mathematics: This unit develops students' mathematical skills and knowledge to solve a wide variety of problems at 100 level in science, engineering, and other disciplines. Topics include algebra, trigonometry, coordinate geometry, functions, variation, vectors, and an introduction to differential and integral calculus. MATLAB will be used for calculation and simulation.
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• Mathematics 1A: This unit covers a range of foundation topics in calculus and linear algebra as needed for science, engineering, and other disciplines. The calculus topics include: functions, limits, continuity, logarithm and exponential functions, mean value theorem, differentiation, maxima and minima, curve sketching, L'Hôpital's rule, and integration.