Reshaping Environments
Subject ENVS10002 (2010)
Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.
| Credit Points: | 12.50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Level: | 1 (Undergraduate) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dates & Locations: | This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010: Semester 1, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Semester 2, Parkville - Taught on campus.
On-campus Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Time Commitment: | Contact Hours: 24 hours of lectures and 24 hours of tutorials. Total Time Commitment: 120 hours | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites: | None specified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Corequisites: | None specified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recommended Background Knowledge: | None specified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non Allowed Subjects: | None specified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Core Participation Requirements: | It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs. This course requires all students to enrol in subjects where they must actively and safely contribute to class activities. Students who feel their disability will affect their meeting this requirement are encouraged to discuss this matter with the Subject Coordinator and the Disability Liaison Unit. |
Coordinator
Dr Graham A. MooreContact
Environments and Design Student CentreT: +61 3 8344 6417/9862
F: +61 3 8344 5532
Email: envs-courseadvice@unimelb.edu.au
| Subject Overview: | This subject explores how environments shape us and we humans reshape the environment. It examines human attitudes to, impacts on and interactions with the environments in which we live by considering ‘natural', transformed and built environments as sites of production and consumption, imagining and contest, in different parts of the globe. The subject considers the material relationship between the natural and built environments by exploring issues of resource use. Human demands for water, energy, food, fibres and minerals, will be examined in relation to the technologies and practices used to meet those needs, and the resulting creation of waste and pollution and impacts on climate and a range of ecosystems and species. These issues and processes will be presented and considered using thematic, geographically varied, historic and contemporary examples. The subject will operate at three ‘scales' including: ‘natural' landscapes and their ecosystems; cities and the urban environment; buildings. |
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| Objectives: | None specified |
| Assessment: | A reflective journal throughout semester totalling approximately 1500 words (20%); tutorial participation during the semester (10%); a three part project report of 3000 words equivalent, due before week 6, 9 (group submission), end of semester (70%). |
| Prescribed Texts: | None specified |
| Breadth Options: | This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:
You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects. |
| Fees Information: | Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date |
| Generic Skills: |
At the completion of this subject students should have developed the following skills:
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| Links to further information: | http://www.benvs.unimelb.edu.au/ |
| Related Majors/Minors/Specialisations: |
Architecture Civil (Engineering) Systems Construction Environmental Geographies, Politics and Cultures Environmental Science Geomatics Landscape Architecture Landscape Management Physical (Environmental Engineering) Systems Property Urban Design and Planning |
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