Changing our Climate: Past and Future
24 hours face to face + blended
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
Overview
This unit seeks to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the societal trajectory that has led to the environmental crisis of climate change, and an understanding of innovative and creative solutions that are taking place in order to build future resilience in response to climate change. Through an exploration of this content, students shall further their skills in critical thinking, theoretical analysis, research and future problem solving.
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:
- Develop a familiarity with high quality academic and grey literature environmental sources to ensure that research is informed by contemporary debates and current local and international policy.
- Conduct analysis informed by contemporary and relevant theoretical approaches to addressing environmental issues.
- Creatively and innovatively develop future problem solving strategies informed by evidence that have the capacity to generate future resilience in the face of climate change.
- Engage in written or verbal communication that conveys the complexity of environmental literature, theory, and policy clearly.
- Critically engage with environmental literature, theory, and policy.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Online Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 3.50 | 12 weeks | 42 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 6.00 | 12 weeks | 72 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Analysis | Individual | 40% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
Minor Essay | Individual | 25% | 1,2,4,5 |
Report | Individual | 35% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
Content
- Historical localised living
- The development of the economy
- Colonisation's impact on people and place
- Globalisation's impact on people and place
- Climate change
- Future climate scenarios
- Societal change
- International and sustainable development
- Circular economies
- Energy sources for the future
- International governance
- Localised sustainability initiatives
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.