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ENSC 103 Environment and Sustainability Units: 3.00
An interdisciplinary approach to complex environmental issues, and diverse perspectives on environmental management and sustainability. The course considers the social and scientific aspects of environmental problems and the production of environmental knowledge alongside global linkages, human health implications and barriers to sustainability.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 24 Online Activity, 60 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Course Equivalencies: ENSC103; ENSC203
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Adopt and make accurate use of disciplinary language to communicate on environmental issues with a variety of audiences.
- Apply concepts and practices of ecological citizenship.
- Competently explain key terms for course (e.g. Sustainability, Indigeneity, etc.)
- Critique constructively the dominance of individualism and voluntary action as core social beliefs in mainstream society.
- Evaluate the impact of the intersection of scientific and social aspects of a variety of environmental issues.
- Explore personally the possibilities and/or limitations of individual actions in relation to sustainability.
- Identify and explain the contested aspects of environmental knowledge (e.g. Around climate change, scientific uncertainty, etc.).
- Identify relative importance and verifiability of scientific and social aspects of environmental issues.