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Specialisation Structure
48 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 48 UOC.

Advanced Disciplinary Core Courses

Students must take 24 UOC of the following courses.

MINE8710
6 UOC
Mine Slope Stability
MINE5060
6 UOC
Operational geotechnical management (underground coal mining)
MINE8690
6 UOC
Mining Geotechnical Project
MINE8940
6 UOC
Mine Slope Monitoring Technologies

Disciplinary Core Courses

Students must take 24 UOC of the following courses.

MINE5010
6 UOC
Fundamentals of Rock Behaviour for Underground Mining
MINE5020
6 UOC
Geotechnical Assessment for Underground Mining
MINE5030
6 UOC
Mining Excavations in Rock
MINE8680
6 UOC
Geotechnical Data Collection and Analysis

Enrolment Disclaimer

Please note that this Handbook is a comprehensive catalogue of our offerings and includes courses that can be taken to satisfy program requirements irrespective as to their availability for a particular year. Availability of courses is best checked using filters on this site or on the class timetable site.

You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.

Additional Information

* NOTE: If students lose or change jobs and no longer have mine site access, the School will work with the students affected to arrange ongoing access to a mine site, or mine site data, so as to enable the opportunity for successful completion of the courses and related assessment tasks. This may include ongoing access agreed with their past employer, or access to an alternate site or site database being arranged. As such, there is no requirement for the students to have to change streams or programs on this account.

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