Availabilities:
2021 unit offering information will be available in September 2020
Unit description
Introduces students to the challenges associated with the use of natural resources, exploring socio-ecological interactions and relevant solutions to our biggest environmental challenges, including climate change, land degradation, biodiversity loss and pollution. The unit focuses on the skills required for a graduate to explore an environmental challenge, including identifying stakeholders and how to find, and determine the reliability of, relevant information. Teamwork and academic writing skills are developed and assessed.
Unit content
- A historical perspective of environmental challenges
- Socio-political responses to environmental issues
- Complex socio-ecological interactions
- Identifying stakeholders
- Indigenous knowledge
- Academic integrity and developing scientific research skills
- Working in teams and reflection
- Emerging solutions to environmental challenges
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.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify and define environmental challenges | Communication and social skills | ||||||
| 2 | use and evaluate sources of scientific and social evidence | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 3 | identify stakeholders and the social processes affecting an environmental issue | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | |||||
| 4 | communicate environmental issues in a creative and professional manner | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
| 5 | work in a team in a scholarly and professional setting | Communication and social skills | ||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- identify and define environmental challenges
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- use and evaluate sources of scientific and social evidence
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- identify stakeholders and the social processes affecting an environmental issue
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- GA7: Cultural competence
- communicate environmental issues in a creative and professional manner
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- GA7: Cultural competence
- work in a team in a scholarly and professional setting
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 2 hrs (11 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2hrs (11 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Short written response | 10% |
| Short written response | 25% |
| Teams choose format | 30% |
| Portfolio | 35% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 2 hrs (11 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hrs (11 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Short written response | 10% |
| Short written response | 25% |
| Teams choose format | 30% |
| Portfolio | 35% |
| Teaching method |
| Residential session 7 hrs (1 day) |
| Tutorial online 1 hrs (10 weeks) |
| Lecture online 2 hrs (11 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Short written response | 10% |
| Short written response | 25% |
| Teams choose format | 30% |
| Portfolio | 35% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Commencing 2021 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 2
Fee paying courses
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International
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