Global Environmental Futures (11150.1)
Available teaching periods | Delivery mode | Location |
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View teaching periods | On-Campus |
Bruce, Canberra |
EFTSL | Credit points | Faculty |
0.125 | 3 | Faculty Of Arts And Design |
Discipline | Study level | HECS Bands |
School Of Arts And Communications | Level 3 - Undergraduate Advanced Unit | Band 2 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021) Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021) Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan Social Work_Exclude 0905) |
Learning outcomes
After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:1. Interrogate and interpret key socio-cultural narratives and theoretical representations of nature and culture;
2. Evaluate how humanities and creative arts approaches can contribute to creative interventions in ecological crises; and
3. Apply knowledge of global and cultural environmental contexts to their assessment of ethical practices in the creative and cultural sectors.
Graduate attributes
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - use Indigenous histories and traditional ecological knowledge to develop and augment understanding of their discipline
Prerequisites
Must have passed 48 credit points.Corequisites
None.Incompatible units
None.Equivalent units
None.Assumed knowledge
None.Year | Location | Teaching period | Teaching start date | Delivery mode | Unit convener |
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2023 | Bruce, Canberra | Semester 1 | 06 February 2023 | On-Campus | Dr Russell Kirkpatrick |
2024 | Bruce, Canberra | Semester 1 | 05 February 2024 | On-Campus | Dr Russell Kirkpatrick |
Required texts
Required:
Falconer, Delia: The Opposite of Glamour. Sydney Review of Books, 2017. (Online)
Head, Lesley: The Anthropoceneans. Geographical Research special paper, 2015. (Library)
Kaefer, Florian: Origin and Success of 100% Pure New Zealand Destination Brand. The Place Brand Observer, 2016. (Online)
Sundberg, Juanita: Decolonizing Posthuman Geographies. Cultural Geographies 21(1), 2014. (Library)
ABC: Pumped: Who's Benefitting from the Millions Spent on the Murray-Darling? ABC, 2017. (Online video)
Winkworth, Gail; Healy, Chris; Woodward, Merrilyn and Camilleri, Peter. Community Capacity Building: Learning from the 2003 Canberra Bushfires [online]. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, The, Vol. 24, No. 2, May 2009. (Library)
Firth, Chris et al: Developing "community" in community gardens. Local Environment, 16 (6), 2011. (Library)
Wilson, Cameron: Rethinking Indigenous Australia's Agricultural Past. ABC podcast, 2014. (Online)
Turner, Bethaney: Taste, Waste and the New Materiality of Food, ch 1 and 3. Routledge, 2018. (Library)
Romano, Aja: Hopepunk, the latest storytelling trend, is all about weaponized optimism. Vox, 2018. (Online)
Recommended:
Ellis, N. and Cunsolo, A: Hope and Mourning in the Anthropocene, The Conversation, April 5 2018. (Online)
Participation requirements
None
Required IT skills
None
Work placement, internships or practicums
None