LAW5497 · 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. Apply advanced knowledge and demonstrated understanding of 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. Undertake research in order to analyse and synthesise complex information in response to complex issues relating to environmental justice
4. Demonstrate engaging, detailed, and persuasive communication across a range of topics in environmental justice

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit typically comprises of a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study applicable to a 6 credit point unit. Learning 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.