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Unit name Environmental Politics and Policy
Unit code HPP312
Credit points 12.5
Faculty/School College of Arts, Law and Education
School of Social Sciences
Discipline Politics and International Relations
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Learning Outcomes

  1. Explain key conceptual difficulties, theoretical perspectives and debates in the fields of environmental justice, politics and policy.
  2. Apply relevant theoretical perspectives and debates to real world examples of environmental justice, politics and policy.
  3. Analyse the complex and dynamic relationships between environmental justice, politics and policy, policy outcomes, and political actors and institutions, at the local, national and/or international levels.
  4. Communicate your ideas coherently in written and/or oral forms.

Fees

Requisites

Prerequisites

25 points at introductory level in any discipline in any faculty

Mutual Exclusions

You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:

HPP212 AND HSD330 AND HSD230

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

On Campus: 2-hr lecture weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly;
Off Campus: web-based delivery of 13 lectures, 1 online tutorial discussion fortnightly

Assessment

Task 1: Quiz (10%)

Task 2: Essay (40%)

Task 3: Participation – in tutorials and/ or online (10%)

Task 4: Take-home exam (40%)

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Textbooks

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