Bachelor of Environmental Policy and Planning Hons
Bachelor of Environmental Policy and Planning Hons
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Upcoming start dates
November Summer School - 11 Nov 2024
Semester 1 - 17 Feb 2025
Semester 2 - 14 Jul 2025
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Qualification
Bachelors
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Duration
4 years full-time
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Credits
480
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Location
Lincoln University Campus
This is an invitation to nurture a career specialising in urban or regional policy and planning. Gain the capabilities to address local opportunities and global challenges, together with specialist knowledge of the physical and ecological sciences, risk and resilience, the Treaty of Waitangi, resource management and planning law.
Environmental planning is going through a period of accelerated change in response to shifts in society, climate issues, economic priorities and other factors.
This Honours degree blends practical experience and theory to develop your potential in the exciting and fast-evolving fields of urban and regional planning. Learn and grow to enhance the future by shaping our environment.
How you’ll grow
- By developing a sound understanding of the complex relationships between gender, culture, ethnicity and equity – and how they influence environmental policy and planning.
- By spending time with people who seek the permissions to carry out, prevent or modify a wide range of activities in different environmental contexts.
- Crafting various plans and strategies, and making recommendations on what people can do in the environment.
- Learning how to analyse and make evidence-based decisions in multi-disciplinary situations.
- Expand your potential to make a tangible contribution to the processes leading to positive sustainable outcomes.
- Becoming accredited by the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI*).
*The BEPP (Honours) is accredited by the NZPI, providing professional recognition of the degree. This enables you to be a student member of the Institute when you start study, and creates a pathway to full ‘accredited member’ status.
Career opportunities
There is high demand for skilled and visionary professional planners. As a graduate planner with Lincoln University’s accredited degree, you’ll be qualified for environmental or policy planning roles at city, district, regional and central government levels as well as in exciting private sector enterprises.
I found the field trips and way the courses are applied to real life situations really effective for showing how the theories and processes we discuss in class happen in the real world.
Lisa Arnott
Bachelor of Environmental Policy and Planning with Honours
Programme information
University Entrance through NCEA or an approved, equivalent qualification.
If you have an overseas qualification, you can find out more about entry requirements here.
*If English isn’t your first language, other entry requirements will apply. Learn more about English language requirements.
Recommended preparation
- Agriculture / Horticulture
- English (highly recommended)
- Geography / Social Studies (highly recommended)
- Biology / Science
- Chemistry
- Computing
- Economics
- History / Classics
- Māori Studies
- Maths / Statistics
- Tourism
Summary of Regulations
All of the following:
- Pass at least 480 credits (32 courses)
- Pass all compulsory courses
- Complete no more than 165 credits (11 courses ) at the 100 level
- Complete at least 75 credits (5 course) at the 300 level
- Complete at least 120 credits at the 600 level
- Candidates must normally have passed the group work component and achieve a B+ grade (or better) in SOCI 314 - Professional Practice or substantively equivalent course with an assessed group work component.
- Candidates must achieve a B+ average (or better) in the B.E.P.P. 300-level compulsory courses to enrol in the 600-level courses.
What's it going to cost?
Learn more by using the Domestic Fees Calculator or viewing the International Fees.
You can start studying in either:
- Semester 1 (late February)
- Semester 2 (mid-July)*
There are also options for starting in summer semesters. But the range of courses available would be limited.
*Please obtain course advice if you’re considering this option.
There are opportunities to add an additional major to the BEM, including Water Management, Parks and Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. Please refer to the programme course advisor for further information.
Graduate Attributes refer to the knowledge, skills, and values that you gain from completing your qualification. These high-level qualities will prepare you for career success, further study or research and making a valuable contribution to society in your chosen field.
Knowledge
- Explain the relevance of environmental policy and planning theory covering nature and purpose of planning, history, current debates.
- Apply environmental policy and planning theory and methods at different (global to local) spatial, governance and temporal scales.
- Describe and explain the interactions between social, economic, bio-physical environmental and cultural issues and processes.
- Distinguish between different environmental policy and planning principles, methods and tools and apply them (to a class case study).
- Describe various processes of policy and plan development and implementation.
- Describe the advantages of multiple disciplines of strategic significance to environmental policy and planning.
- Outline the advantages and disadvantages of single, multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches to the formulation and resolution of environmental policy and planning issues.
- Explain the New Zealand legislative environment and case law associated with environmental policy and planning.
- Recognise New Zealand’s bicultural mandate, multi-cultural society and outline the implications for environmental policy and planning practice.
Skills
- Conduct both independent research and group work.
- Location, evaluate and use information / data from a range of resources (information literacy).
- Acquire, evaluate and synthesis a wide range of knowledge.
- Think critically for problem-solving.
- Communicate effectively to specific audiences using appropriate media.
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, including an ability to relate to people from a wide range of backgrounds and communities.
Values
- Commit to professional and ethical standards of behaviour, based on knowledge and application of professional ethics and codes of conduct.
- Appreciate gender, cultural, ethnicity and equity issues and perspectives relevant to environmental policy and planning.
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Entry requirements
University Entrance through NCEA or an approved, equivalent qualification.
If you have an overseas qualification, you can find out more about entry requirements here.
*If English isn’t your first language, other entry requirements will apply. Learn more about English language requirements.
Recommended preparation
- Agriculture / Horticulture
- English (highly recommended)
- Geography / Social Studies (highly recommended)
- Biology / Science
- Chemistry
- Computing
- Economics
- History / Classics
- Māori Studies
- Maths / Statistics
- Tourism
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Regulations and fees
Summary of Regulations
All of the following:
- Pass at least 480 credits (32 courses)
- Pass all compulsory courses
- Complete no more than 165 credits (11 courses ) at the 100 level
- Complete at least 75 credits (5 course) at the 300 level
- Complete at least 120 credits at the 600 level
- Candidates must normally have passed the group work component and achieve a B+ grade (or better) in SOCI 314 - Professional Practice or substantively equivalent course with an assessed group work component.
- Candidates must achieve a B+ average (or better) in the B.E.P.P. 300-level compulsory courses to enrol in the 600-level courses.
What's it going to cost?
Learn more by using the Domestic Fees Calculator or viewing the International Fees.
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Intake semesters
You can start studying in either:
- Semester 1 (late February)
- Semester 2 (mid-July)*
There are also options for starting in summer semesters. But the range of courses available would be limited.
*Please obtain course advice if you’re considering this option.
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Additional major
There are opportunities to add an additional major to the BEM, including Water Management, Parks and Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. Please refer to the programme course advisor for further information.
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Graduate Attributes
Graduate Attributes refer to the knowledge, skills, and values that you gain from completing your qualification. These high-level qualities will prepare you for career success, further study or research and making a valuable contribution to society in your chosen field.
Knowledge
- Explain the relevance of environmental policy and planning theory covering nature and purpose of planning, history, current debates.
- Apply environmental policy and planning theory and methods at different (global to local) spatial, governance and temporal scales.
- Describe and explain the interactions between social, economic, bio-physical environmental and cultural issues and processes.
- Distinguish between different environmental policy and planning principles, methods and tools and apply them (to a class case study).
- Describe various processes of policy and plan development and implementation.
- Describe the advantages of multiple disciplines of strategic significance to environmental policy and planning.
- Outline the advantages and disadvantages of single, multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches to the formulation and resolution of environmental policy and planning issues.
- Explain the New Zealand legislative environment and case law associated with environmental policy and planning.
- Recognise New Zealand’s bicultural mandate, multi-cultural society and outline the implications for environmental policy and planning practice.
Skills
- Conduct both independent research and group work.
- Location, evaluate and use information / data from a range of resources (information literacy).
- Acquire, evaluate and synthesis a wide range of knowledge.
- Think critically for problem-solving.
- Communicate effectively to specific audiences using appropriate media.
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, including an ability to relate to people from a wide range of backgrounds and communities.
Values
- Commit to professional and ethical standards of behaviour, based on knowledge and application of professional ethics and codes of conduct.
- Appreciate gender, cultural, ethnicity and equity issues and perspectives relevant to environmental policy and planning.
Programme Structure
Year 1
Semester 1 courses
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Semester 1 courses
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{{ 'MAST 104' | except-last-word }} {{ 'MAST 104' | last-word }}
Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi)
15 credits
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{{ 'ECON 113' | except-last-word }} {{ 'ECON 113' | last-word }}
Economies and Markets
15 credits
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{{ 'SOCI 116' | except-last-word }} {{ 'SOCI 116' | last-word }}
Society, Culture and Environment
15 credits
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{{ 'LINC 101' | except-last-word }} {{ 'LINC 101' | last-word }}
Land, People and Economies
15 credits
Semester 2 courses
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Semester 2 courses
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{{ 'SOCI 117' | except-last-word }} {{ 'SOCI 117' | last-word }}
Introduction to New Zealand Government and Public Policy
15 credits
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BEPP Hons List A*
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Elective
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Elective
Year 2
Semester 1 courses
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Semester 1 courses
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{{ 'SOCI 204' | except-last-word }} {{ 'SOCI 204' | last-word }}
Research Methods
15 credits
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{{ 'ERST 203' | except-last-word }} {{ 'ERST 203' | last-word }}
Environmental Monitoring and Resource Assessment
15 credits
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{{ 'MAST 206' | except-last-word }} {{ 'MAST 206' | last-word }}
Whakatakoto Kaupapa (Māori Planning and Development)
15 credits
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BEPP Hons List B*
Semester 2 courses
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Semester 2 courses
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{{ 'LINC 201' | except-last-word }} {{ 'LINC 201' | last-word }}
Sustainable Futures
15 credits
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{{ 'ERST 201' | except-last-word }} {{ 'ERST 201' | last-word }}
Environmental Analysis
15 credits
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{{ 'ERST 205' | except-last-word }} {{ 'ERST 205' | last-word }}
Principles of Urban and Regional Planning
15 credits
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BEPP Hons List B*
Year 3
Semester 1 courses
Semester 2 courses
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Semester 2 courses
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{{ 'MAST 319' | except-last-word }} {{ 'MAST 319' | last-word }}
Te Kaitiakitaka (Māori Environmental Management)
15 credits
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{{ 'ERST 302' | except-last-word }} {{ 'ERST 302' | last-word }}
Environmental Policy
15 credits
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{{ 'SOCI 314' | except-last-word }} {{ 'SOCI 314' | last-word }}
Professional Practice
15 credits
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Elective
Year 4
Semester 1 courses
Semester 2 courses
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Semester 2 courses
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{{ 'LWST 602' | except-last-word }} {{ 'LWST 602' | last-word }}
Advanced Resource Management and Planning Law
20 credits
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Research Placement or Essay*
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BEPP Hons List C*
- Compulsory courses
- Elective courses
- Refer to the lists below
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*BEPP Hons List A
Choose a minimum of one from the following courses:
Semester 1
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*BEPP Hons List B
Choose a minimum of one from the following courses:
Semester 1
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*BEPP Hons List C
Choose a minimum of two from the following list of courses:
Semester 1
- DESN 601 - Strategic Design 20 credits
- ERST 608 - Advanced Energy and Transport Planning 20 credits
- ERST 609 - Advanced Risk and Resilience 20 credits
- ERST 630 - Environmental Policy and Planning 20 credits
- ERST 632 - Economics in Environmental Policy 20 credits
- LASC 615 - Advanced Landscape Planning and Policy 20 credits
- LASC 620 - Landscape Assessment 20 credits
- MGMT 615 - Planning and Assessing International Development Projects 20 credits
- VAPM 602 - Advanced Valuation Methodology 20 credits
Semester 2
- ECON 609 - Quantitative Economic Analysis 20 credits
- ERST 607 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems B 20 credits
- ERST 621 - Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment 20 credits
- MAST 604 - Kaupapa Matua (Advanced Māori Policy and Planning) 20 credits
- PSYC 602 - Advanced Social Psychology of Wellbeing 20 credits
- RECN 626 - Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism 20 credits
- WATR 602 - Water Quality and Quantity Assessment 20 credits
- WATR 603 - Water Management, Policy and Planning 20 credits
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*Research Placement or Essay
Choose a minimum of one: Research Placement or Research Essay
Programme contacts
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