SPECIAL NOTE:
This unit is only available by on-campus mode.
OFFERINGS
Not Offered
DESCRIPTION
How do our cultural and individual values influence our environmental practice? How are environmental practices political? In this unit, students will explore how values and politics influence historical and contemporary environmental management. This unit will also examine ways in which diverse values and politics in modern society shape global environmental debate. The unit includes a weekly seminar series in which academic staff in the School of Geography and Environmental Studies and professionals from industry and government reflect upon their values and on the role of politics in their areas of expertise. Weekly workshops and readings provide an opportunity for students to consider different concepts relating to values and politics; to reflect on their own values and political assumptions; and to apply these reflections to a variety of debates about environmental practice. At the conclusion of the unit, students will be able to analyse and articulate the relationship between values, politics and environmental practices. With the opportunity to reflect more deeply on environmental conflicts, students will also build their capacity to engage in dialogue and conscious, environmental decision-making in the context of the wide diversity of values and political goals present in modern societies.
WEIGHT:
25%
ASSESSMENT:
4,000 word reflection journal (30%); presentations (20%); 4,000-word essay and peer critique (40%); and workshop participation (10%)
FLEXIBLE & ONLINE STUDY OPTIONS Note: Class attendance may still be required
Web supported -
H
Online access to some part of this unit online is optional
Resource supported teaching & learning -
H
Additional resources are provided for your optional use; e.g. audio taped lectures
About Flexible Study Options
Units are offered in attending mode unless otherwise indicated (that is attendance is required at the campus identified). A unit identified as offered by distance, that is there is no requirement for attendance, is identified with a nominal enrolment campus. A unit offered to both attending students and by distance from the same campus is identified as having both modes of study.
Campus - H Hobart, L Launceston, W Burnie. Study Centre - V Sydney, R Rozelle, P Beauty Point. Distance units may also have a campus identifier of I Isolated, N Interstate, O Overseas. Units delivered in Transnational Education (TNE) Programs have a campus identifier of A Hangzhou, F Fuzhou, G Shanghai, K KDU Malaysia, Q Kuwait or Y Hong Kong.
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Web supported -
H
