Environment and Knowledge

Subject HPSC90010 (2010)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 9 (Graduate/Postgraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010:

Semester 1, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable

Standard

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Time Commitment: Contact Hours: One 2 hour seminar per week
Total Time Commitment: An average of 10 hours each week.
Prerequisites: Usually admission to a postgraduate coursework program
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: Knowledge gained in an undergraduate degree.
Non Allowed Subjects: This subject was previously offered under the code 136-527. Students who have completed 136-527 are not eligible to enrol in this subject
Core Participation Requirements:

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.

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Coordinator

Assoc Prof Helen Verran

Contact

Associate Professor Helen Verran

hrv@unimelb.edu.au

Subject Overview:

This subject examines various ways of knowing the environment. Students develop an understanding of the unprecedented transformation in the environment, the sciences, and in politics around environment and knowledge across the twentieth century. As part of their assessment students will study the knowledge practices of a particular environmental organisation becoming sensitised to historical, political and cultural influences on environmental knowledge.


Objectives:

Students who successfully complete this subject will

  • become aware of new understandings of knowledge that are developing in response to the perceived complexity of environmental knowledge

  • Become acquainted with theories and concepts that will enable them to think critically about characteristics that are required for efficacious environmental knowledge.

Assessment: A research report of 5000 words 100 per cent (due at the end of the SWOT VAC).
Prescribed Texts:

A subject reader with key texts will be available from the bookshop.

Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Generic Skills:
  • Students will develop skills in critical ethnographic practice
  • Students will develop advanced skills in narrative research methods, writing, and making oral presentations.
Links to further information: http://www.pasi.unimelb.edu.au/hps/
Related Course(s): M.A.History & Philosophy of Science (Advanced Seminars & Shorter Thesis)
Master of Arts (Science, Communication and Society)
Related Majors/Minors/Specialisations: History and Philosophy of Science
200 point program - full time over 18 months
200 point program - full time over 24 months
Climate Change
History && Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of Science
Philosophy

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