AMU3011 · Sustainability, the environment and society

Overview

You will critically examine sustainable development, through a community - grassroots lens. In groups, you will be assigned mentors comprising of key stakeholders from local communities and organizations who are advocates in environmental sustainability. You will work together to develop a problem statement surrounding a specific global issue or challenge that is currently being addressed by your assigned mentors. At the end of the unit, you will be tasked to present this problem statement, along with an abstract and a body of findings about the issue to your mentors. This unit is designed to be intensive. Your curriculum will include in-class seminars and workshops to develop better skills in critical thinking, data collection and cultural competencies. In-field components will include stays / fieldwork days with mentors at their field sites to collect data on the environmental issue or challenge, as well as to interact with communities directly impacted by it. Field site visits can include local and regional locations within Southeast Asia.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. analyse global issues or challenges affecting local contexts from critical and intersectional perspectives;
2. apply relevant theoretical and methodological frameworks in examining real world environmental problems;
3. collaborate effectively in small group environments;
4. communicate effectively and practice cultural competence through engagements with external or non-academic stakeholders.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.