485-357 Learning Area:Australian Environment OPT

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485-357 Learning Area:Australian Environment OPT
Credit Points	12.5
Coordinator	Sherie McClam
Prerequisites	485-102 Learning Area: Science & Technology 1 or approved equivalent.
Semester	2 (view timetable)
Contact	3 x 2-hour workshops and one 5-day field experience
Subject Description	Through the combination of three on-campus workshops and an intensive 5-day field experience, students will engage in socio-ecological study of a particular Australian ecosystem. Important social and ecological concepts like sustainability, the allocation of scarce resources, the importance of cultural and biological diversity, the interactions and interdependence of organisms and the role of climate and climate change will be integrated and explored. Experiential, project and place-based teaching and learning practices will be employed to give students an opportunity to develop deep understandings of, appreciation for and commitment to the complexities and vulnerabilities of the Australian environment.
Assessment	One planning and reflection journal of 1500 words (50%) and one group project of 2500 words (50%).
Prescribed Texts	Flannery, T. (1997), The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and Peoples. Sydney: New Holland Publishers.

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