136-527 Ecology and Environmentalism

Students who have completed 136-419 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Usually admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth-year honours, or a postgraduate coursework program.

This subject examines particular sites of environmental management to develop understanding of the unprecedented transformation of the environment, the sciences and political movements across the twentieth century. Students will study a particular environmental organisation becoming sensitised to the social, political and cultural elements these organisations embody. At the same time they will analyse the scientific practices of the environmental organisation. This subject will be of interest to students who wish to learn more about the historically and geographically complex relationships embedded in the ways we use the sciences to manage the environment.

• develop skills in written and oral communication;

• be able to conduct independent research;

• make appropriate use of primary and secondary sources in mounting an argument;

• form defensible judgements based on a critical evaluation of conflicting arguments.

A research report of 5000 words 100% (due at the end of the swot vac).

A subject reader will be available.