LAW4560 · Environmental justice

Overview

This unit explores how the laws and legal systems impact environmental justice. The unit will explore approaches to the study and practice of environmental justice, and ask students to think critically about how laws and legal systems impact environmental justice. The unit may examine issues from a range of domestic, international, comparative, and policy perspectives.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

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

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

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Identify and apply fundamental legal principles governing environmental justice.
2. Critically analyse and persuasively evaluate key concepts and policies in environmental justice, contextualised within a broad range of practice, policy and theoretical perspectives.
3. Conduct research, analyse and synthesise complex information in order to respond to complex issues relating to environmental justice.
4. Communicate effectively and persuasively to a range of topics in environmental justice.

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. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. 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.