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

Prerequisites
SOC30020 Changing our Climate: Past and Future

Rule for this unit
50 credit points

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
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
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AnalysisIndividual 40% 1,2,3,4,5 
Minor EssayIndividual 25% 1,2,4,5 
ReportIndividual 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.