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Resource & Environmental Studies
Many environmental problems are not technical issues but
involve political struggles, ethical choices, human behaviour,
economic trade-offs and value conflicts over scientific knowledge.
To tackle these wider social dimensions intrinsic to most
environmental issues of concern today, a wide-ranging social
analysis is valuable and often essential.
Major Study
A major study in Resource and Environmental Studies for
the Bachelor of Arts degree is available by undertaking the
following program. It must include at least 24 credit points
at 300-level.
A major in Resource and Environmental Studies involves an
interdisciplinary combination of core and optional subjects
totalling from 70 to 98 credit points, depending on the options
chosen. The core is made up of five subjects from Australian
Studies, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Science, Technology
and Society and Philosophy. Students must also choose optional
subject sequences from two of four areas: Science, Technology
and Society, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Law or Economics.
Study Program
| Subjects |
|
Credit Points |
| Core |
| AUST101
|
Australian Studies: Cultures and Identities
|
6 |
| GEOS142
|
The Human Environment: Problems and Change
|
6 |
| STS116
|
Environment in Crisis: Technology and
Society |
6 |
| PHIL256
|
Ethics and the Environment A |
6 |
| STS300
|
The Environmental Context |
8 |
| Electives: Two of sequences
A, B, C and D must be completed. |
Sequence A:
BOTH of the following subjects:
(Note: students undertaking sequence A are strongly recommended
to take ECON111, Introductory Microeconomics. Furthermore,
to be able to handle ECON311 well, it is recommended that
students also take ECON215, Microeconomic Theory and Policy.) |
| ECON309
|
Environmental Economics |
8 |
| ECON311
|
Natural Resource Economics |
8 |
Sequence B:
Three of the following subjects:
(Note: Students must have successfully completed at least
one 200-level subject as a prerequisite for 300-level
subjects.) |
| EESC205
|
Population Studies |
6 |
| EESC210
|
Social Spaces: Rural and Urban |
6 |
| EESC208
|
Environmental Impact of Societies |
6 |
| EESC308
|
Environment and Heritage Management |
8 |
| Sequence C:
24 credit points (2 compulsory subjects and 1 elective)
|
| STS200
|
Social Aspects of Science and Technology
|
8 |
| STS335
|
The Politics of Risk |
8 |
| and one of the following
subjects: |
STS238
/
STS338 |
Changing Images of Nature and the Environment
|
8 |
| STS378
|
Scientific and Technological Controversy
|
8 |
| Sequence D:
All of the following subjects: |
| LAW100
|
Law in Society |
6 |
| LAW308
|
Administrative Law |
6 |
| LAW334
|
Environmental Law |
6 |
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