ENVS6306 Human Futures
| Offered By | Fenner School | |
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| Academic Career | Graduate Coursework | |
| Course Subject | Environmental Science | |
| Offered in | Second Semester, 2010 and Second Semester, 2011 | |
| Unit Value | 6 units | |
| Course Description |
The course is designed to engage students in the practice of collaborative, integrative multidisciplinary research needed for tackling complex multi-scale issues involved in creating viable human futures. Topics will include the ‘science wars' and knowledge systems, open versus closed social systems, regulated versus market exchanges, resource use versus conservation, living with risk and uncertainty, balancing individual wants and social needs, global equality of access and opportunity. The course is focussed on students forming small research teams that will investigate a future issue in a collaborative partnership with an external agency, institution, company or enterprise. Seminars will concentrate on the practice and application of research methodologies, methods and tools for doing and integrating research across many discipline areas. Attendance at all seminars is a course requirement. |
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| Indicative Assessment | Contribution to seminar activities (10%), seminar facilitiation and write up, (35%), and a research project using systems methods, including a critical analysis of methodology (55%). Regular attendance and participation in classwork and fieldtrips is required. Students who fail to submit set work by the due date or fail to participate in classes and field trips may be excluded from examination. | |
| Workload |
65 contact hours comprising lectures, tutorials and seminars |
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| Course Classification(s) | AdvancedAdvanced courses are designed for students having reached 'first degree' level of assumed knowledge, which provide a deep understanding of contemporary issues; or 'second degree' and higher levels of knowledge; or for transition to research training programs. | |
| Areas of Interest | Resource Management and Environmental Science | |
| Eligibility | Bachelor degree; with general science knowledge. | |
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| Preliminary Reading |
Attali, Jacques 2009 A Brief History of the Future. Allen and Unwin |
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| Programs | Master of Environment | |
| Academic Contact | Mr David Dumaresq |
The information published on the Study at ANU 2010 website applies to the 2010 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2009 website.
