Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science at James Cook University Brisbane

Our environment influences how we talk, live and grow. Cities are a tangible part of your world that become part of your daily life: the school where you grew up, your favorite grocery store, that graffiti-covered traffic sign you pass on the way to work, that old man always sitting on the park bench. City planning is not just about the buildings or roads, but the environment we build and how we interact with it every day. With an urban and regional planning (URPL) degree at Salisbury University, you can help create these worlds within worlds.

The Environmental Planning and Conservation concentration meets the needs of students seeking careers in government, business and non-profit organizations and for students who wish to pursue a graduate degree in geography. Emphasis in this concentration is on a geosciences approach to environmental issues employing geotechnology, including geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing and spatial analytics. Geotechnology merges sophisticated hardware (computers, drones, satellites, instrumentation) with software applications (mapping, flight control, imagery management, spatial analytics). Students will learn how to apply geotechology and planning principles to the management of natural and human-built environments, and understand human-environmental dependencies in land uses such as agricultural practices and urban sprawl that often result in wetland loss, deforestation, desertification and declining water quality. An appropriate sequence of courses enables students to acquire an appreciation of the challenges to developing sustainable solutions.