Environment and Knowledge

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

170 hours

Admission to relevant Masters program.

Students enrolling in this subject must have completed a Bachelor of Arts degree or equivalent.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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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.

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.

A research report of 5000 words, due in the end of semester examination period (100%)

Hurdle requirement:

• Students must attend a minimum of 80% of classes in order to pass this subject.

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

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Students who successfully complete this subject will:

• Students will develop skills in critical ethnographic practice
• Students will develop advanced skills in narrative research methods, writing, and making oral presentations.