Unit aim
Provides skills to help you in your future role as a professional natural resource manager, including skills in communication within organisations and to the stakeholders and the general public. The unit also focuses on skills that will be required in obtaining work in and succeeding in your chosen career. While this unit assumes no prior knowledge of all issues covered in the unit, it does assume you have a willingness to engage with the unit and participate fully in discussions that arise from issues raised in the course.
Unit content
Topics include:
- Administration of natural resource management policy in Australia
- Introduction to socio-economic research approaches as compared with biological approaches to management of the environment
- Understanding stakeholders, the community and the role of extension.
- Developing a strategy to achieve communication and information needs of target groups and agencies
- Role of the media in environmental management
- Negotiation communication skills required for dealing with multiple stakeholders
- Conflict resolution
- The science/management/political interface in natural resource management
- Grants and funding
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply skills in application writing to funding applications and employment applications | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 2 | discuss the issues surrounding the differing information and education needs of various community and stakeholder groups involved in resource management | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
| 3 | evaluate the various participatory approaches to engaging communities and individuals in natural resource management (including participatory rural appraisal, Indigenous research and action research etc.) | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
| 4 | explore the various levels of government and the administrative structures and reporting systems incorporated within them and the role of employees within these structures | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
| 5 | develop a communication/education plan for stakeholders affected by natural. resource management issues | Creativity | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
| 6 | apply negotiation and conflict resolution skills to a variety of situations confronted. by natural resource management practitioners | Ethical practice | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 7 | communicate science and management issues to identified stakeholders. | Creativity | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
Prescribed texts
Session 2
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
Online
| Teaching method |
| Structured online learning 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Residential session 3 days (Once during study period) |
| Assessment | |
| Project proposal | 40% |
| Newspaper article See the Assessment Guide on the Blackboard site | 20% |
| Report | 20% |
| Presentation | 20% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Commencing 2015 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 2
Fee paying courses
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International
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