Environmental Philosophy
36 hours Face to Face + Blended
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
Overview
To provide students with a comprehensive understanding of environmental problems, including the threat of destruction of the current regime of the global ecosystem, of the forces driving this destruction, and what is required to address and overcome these problems.
Requisites
Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Discuss the state of our environment and the causes driving its destruction
- Identify the driving forces for ecological destruction for Australia and the global environment and discuss the main changes required to create an environmentally sustainable society and civilization
- Critically review the core assumptions of prevailing economic theories and the alternative provided by institutionalist forms of ecological economics and human ecology
- Evaluate the use of cost-benefit or risk-benefit analyses to assess policies, and the alternative provided by retrospective path analysis, and defend and use this alternative
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Tutorial | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Readings | 5.00 | 12 weeks | 60 |
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Independent Learning | 4.50 | 12 weeks | 54 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Essay 1 | Individual | 40% | 1,2,3,4 |
Essay 2 | Individual | 50% | 1,2,3,4 |
Essay proposal/presentation | Individual | 10% | 2 |
Content
- The environmental crisis as a global phenomenon, and the implications of the crisis for Australia and Australians
- Ethics, cultural analysis, political philosophy and policy formation and their relationship
- The assumptions of prevailing economic theory and alternative ways of conceiving our relations to each other and to nature.
- A framework of ideas as the basis for formulating environmentally sound political and economic policies to replace those at present dominating Australian society
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Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.