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Note: This subject qualifies as a Link Study.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 8.3
Coordinator: To be advised.
Prerequisite: 16.7 credit points in Year 2 Geography subjects, or approved equivalent.
Contact: A 2-hour tutorial each week and a weekend field excursion.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- appreciate the mutually reinforcing role of content and process in environmental education;
- understand the mechanisms by which environmental decisions are made in less affluent countries and to evaluate the role of direct and indirect action in influencing policy direction; and
- demonstrate an understanding of environmental issues at scales ranging from the personal and local, through to the international and global.
Content:
People-environment issues with a particular focus on less affluent countries. Topics selected from: the people-environment perspective; values and action; the geography curriculum and classroom practice.
Assessment:
One written assignment of approximately 2,500 words (100 per cent).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus) (Volume 5 page 113)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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